Monday, November 29, 2010

Racial Identification Cards




"The Belgian administration implements a Ten-Year Development Plan to achieve social stability through native participation in government. Under Belgian rule, the class distinctions in Rwandan society have been conflated with the ethnic division, granting the Tutsi minority privileged political, economic and social status. The mechanics of the new plan codify ethnic profiling into a system of identity cards. The Kinyarwanda language has no word for "ethnicity";ubwoko, or "clan", is used instead."

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