Story by Free Uganda
In Present day uganda, Banyarwanda make up 6% of the total population. However, the Ugandan Banyarwanda are composed of Hutu, Twa and Tutsi. The Hutu have been quickly accepted as Bafumbira, the Twa remained Twa and the Tutsi renamed Nyarwanda/Nyaru. In general,the Ugandan society at large, has always been very hostile to Ugandan Tutsi. In fact, many have never been able to assimilate properly,they’ve always found themselves refugees in their own country.
The Twa are the most abused; displaced,neglected,discriminated,etc.
In fact there was a time when Uganda society had a belief, that “if you fuck a Twa woman, you get cured from aids”. As society see’s them as sub-humans, this resulted into mass rape, especially by UPDF soldiers.
In spite of their racists culture towards Black Africans, Asian nationals from Indian, Pakistan,Bangaleshi and Seychelles,that have come to exploit Ugandans, have more rights than Ugandan Tutsi.
A point of clarification, in Uganda, we also have another type of Tutsi, the migrant/Refugee. This later Tutsi is protected by UNHCR and their respective governments in Rwanda and Burundi[missions] that they might be working for.
They’ve not escaped the institutionalised banter, the derogatory xenophobic term for them is “Nyaru”.
However, just like in any society, when two people get into a heated-up argument, they tend to slag-off the other party.
In Uganda, when any westerner[Toro,Kiga,Nkore,etc] or a very light skinned (not mixed race) person gets into such an argument, the other party tend to slag them off, that they’re “Nyarus”-its like “Honky[honkie]” a derogatory term for a Caucasian person.
Though Uganda is still under economical and mental colonialism,during the first scramble for Uganda by the British imperialists,the Baganda tribe were the richest in terms of exploitation,because they produced cash crops such as cotton and coffee for their masters,and diligently played the role of colonial(compradors) sub-imperialists.
Its believed that at the time,Baganda never associated themselves with other tribes and that’s the reason we have the term in Kiganda(Baganda language) Tetwalyaaga Namwe(You were never part of us), we never used to share/eat with you.
At the time, western Uganda was a reservoir of cheap labour for the colonialists as well as their pathetic Compradors in Buganda. The tribes that provided the cheap/slave labour were mainly Hutus, today you could say Bafumbira and Bakiga-don’t forget that Hutus were the Elite Forces for the Buganda Kingdom.
read more; https://freeuganda.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/the-plight-of-uganda-banyarwanda/
