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Orion Wide Side-by-Side PlateMount two telescope optical tubes side by side on your mountIncrease your visual versatility by mounting two different telescopes side by side to view the same area of skySimplify your guided astro-imaging setup b ... Learn More
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Orion SkyQuest XT12 Classic Dobsonian Telescope
Orion SkyQuest XT12 Classic Dobsonian Telescope305mm aperture & 1500mm focal length for jaw-dropping views of galaxies, nebulas, and star clustersParabolic primary mirror is made of BK-7 glass and center-marked for easy collimationThe ult ... Learn More
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Orion - Zero Profile Camera Adapter 2 "
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With the Orion X-Y Guidestar Finder you won't have to. It enables you to move the autoguider (or guiding telescope eyepiece) around within the guide telescope's focal plane, bringing more potential guide stars into view and speeding up the process of guide star acquisition. In fact, it obviates the need for adjustable tube rings altogether, eliminating a potential source of image-ruining flexure. With the Orion X-Y Guidestar Finder, you can use fixed tube rings for your guide scope instead — a much more secure configuration.
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Orion - VersaGo III Micro-Motion Altazimuth Mount
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Orion - VersaGo II Altazimuth Telescope Mount
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Orion - USB Guide Port Interface
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Orion - UP20 Premium UltraPortable Truss Dobsonian
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Orion - UP16 Premium UltraPortable Truss Dobsonian
A Premium, Portable Design - About half the weight of traditional Dobsonian telescopesA Quantum Leap in Performance - The UP16's huge 16-inch diameter primary mirror gathers 400% more light than popular 8-inch reflectors and 250% more light than ... Learn More
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Orion - Universal Holder for iPad/Tablet
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It's a 50-50 shot Dez Bryant will be done for the remainder of the season with a finger injury. The PFT guys discuss his health and the effect his absence will have on the Cowboys' playoff chances.
This video is no longer available. Click here to watch more NBC Sports videos!Sean Payton: Risk taking often tied to having a certain play in mind
What goes into the decision to go for it?
Saints coach Sean Payton was asked Friday about risk taking as a play-caller, and he indicated the call on whether to go for it was often related to the playbook.
"We will look closely at situations, timing in the game," Payton said according to a transcript from the club. "A lot of times the decision to go for it on fourth down or hypothetically a two-point play is based on whether you still have a play you like.
"Sometimes, say in short-yardage situations, you've run a play you really like, converted, maybe you would run another one. A lot of times it depends on if you have that play still that you haven't shown. That factors in more than you think.
"I think it also is based on the game in itself and how it is unfolding, what you are doing defensively and what you are doing offensively and paying attention to that and trusting your instincts when the time comes. Each game is different."
Excluding 2012, the Saints are 51-of-111 on fourth downs (45.9 percent) in regular-season games in Payton's tenure. Also, they are 5-of-11 on fourth down (45.5 percent) in postseason contests coached by Payton.
By the numbers, the Saints are a little less than a coin flip to convert on fourth down. But should they go for it, we can safely assume Payton — a well-regarded play-caller — has something he's confident in springing on an unsuspecting defense.
Stills doesn't think Sherman should have been fined for illegal hit
On Monday night, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman applied a cheap shot to Saints receiver Kenny Stills.
The officials didn't miss it. The league office didn't, either.
According to Katherine Terrell of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sherman was fined $7,875 for the blow to Stills.
But Stills had no problem with the hit, and he doesn't think Sherman should have been fined.
"I don't think it deserves a fine," Stills said. "We had just been talking trash to one another, and I guess he saw an opportunity to take a shot. It's football. You're going to get hit. . . . I didn't take any offense to it. I think it's funny."
But the league didn't, and the victim of the illegal hit has no say in the discipline.
Marcus Lattimore's practice window ends on high note
By the time he carries the ball again, it will be a year and a half since the grisly knee injury that ended his college career.
But after three weeks practicing with the 49ers, rookie running back Marcus Lattimore is convinced he'll be ready when his time comes.
The 49ers had a three-week window to let the rookie running back practice, and he went through the last one Friday. He won't be activated from the non-football injury list, but showed enough during his limited work to be encouraged.
"If I had to play, I would play," Lattimore told Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. "Without question, if they needed me, I could play. But they don't need me right now."
Instead, Lattimore gets what amounts to a redshirt year. The 49ers took the player who was considered a first-round talent in the fourth round this year, knowing he probably wouldn't contribute in 2013 because of the grotesque right knee injury.
"This extra time is just going to give me enough time to get comfortable without the brace I was wearing and go out there and play like nothing ever happened," Lattimore said. "Three weeks, and I got better every week. And that was my main goal, to get better every week. The soreness went down every week. I was out there moving around and being myself. And I know the things I have to work on now. . . .
"My confidence is good. I know I still got it. Going into next year, I can't wait."
The 49ers were deep enough in the backfield and had enough extra draft picks to take the chance, and now get a year to see if the investment proves to be worth it.
Brett Hundley wants to enter the draft, and so he should
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota recently decided to keep playing football for free. Or, more accurately, for money that someone else gets paid.
UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley currently is wrestling with the same decision. According to Tony Pauline (via Rotoworld), Hundley wants to enter the draft. Persons close to Hundley are advising him to stay in school. Obviously, UCLA is doing all that it can to keep him — in large part because plenty of people at UCLA are among those who get paid a lot of money by the money Hundley helps earn. (But doesn't personally receive.)
As Pauline puts it, the question is whether Hundley is content to be a second-round pick in 2014 or a potential top-10 pick in 2015.
And here's where we tell Hundley what no one with a vested interest in Hundley staying in school will tell him: Under the current rookie wage scale, that doesn't matter as much as it used to.
While being a top-10 pick could carry with it some off-field opportunities that don't exist for second-round picks, the potential path to a truly life-altering contract becomes much shorter for a second-round pick in 2014 versus a first-round pick in 2015.
With top-10 picks no longer making gigantic money, it's arguably better to start the clock on a second contract. For Hundley, entering the draft in 2014 means that he'd be eligible for free agency in 2018. If he waits until 2015 and rises to round one (there's no guarantee he will), Hundley won't be eligible for free agency until 2019 or, if the team exercises its first-round option on a fifth year, 2020.
It's not as if Hundley would be sitting on the bench if he's a second-round pick, unless a team with a clear-cut franchise quarterback decides to invest a selection that high on a backup. In today's NFL, where quarterbacks taken in the first two rounds get put on the field quickly because the people who drafted them and who coach them may not be there to use them later, Hundley probably will play right away, like 2013 second-round pick Geno Smith did.
Besides, if Hundley wants to enter the draft, he should. Even if it's ultimately the wrong decision, it'll be his decision and not someone else's decision.
Of all the potential lessons to be learned via this process, the worst one would be to not let other people make your decisions.
Saturday morning one-liners
Jets LB Calvin Pace has teamed up with former Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell to file a lawsuit in North Carolina regarding the sale of a former cigarette factory.
There will be a Pouncey reunion in Pittsburgh this weekend, when Mike's Dolphin's visit twin brother Maurkice's team. (Hopefully, they'll leave the Free Hernandez hats at home.)
The guy who slid down the edge of the upper deck at a Bills home game and fell onto the crowd below has pleaded not guilty to assault and reckless endangerment. (As to being a word that starts with ass and rhymes with hole, he should have pleaded no contest.)
Yes, Patriots LB Jerod Mayo is on injured reserve, but he's still finding a way to help his team.
On this date in 1980, the Browns' "Kardiac Kids" blew a 10-point lead but then came back for their first 10-win season in eight years.
The next man up (and possibly next man down) at center for the Steelers is Cody Wallace.
Ravens WR Torrey Smith is only 250 receiving yards away from a franchise single-season record.
The forecast for Sunday's Bengals game in Cincinnati calls for snow, freezing rain, and sleet.
Colts coach Chuck Pagano says the decision to trade for RB Trent Richardson "was always a long-term thing." (Which is easy to say now, given that it's clearly not a short-term thing.)
Yes, the Jaguars could still make the playoffs.
Titans DT Jurrell Casey is good at both sacking the quarterback and stopping the run.
On the possibility of making their interim coach their permanent coach, the Texans get a word of warning from Dallas.
Broncos RB Knowshon Moreno has been named the team's Ed Block Courage Award winner. (He's also been selected to water the practice field with his tear ducts.)
Chiefs WR Junior Hemingway is drawing praise for his run blocking.
The Raiders have a 12-game losing streak in the Eastern time zone.
Get to know Chargers TE Ladarius Green, the possible heir to Antonio Gates' throne.
Cowboys executive V.P. Stephen Jones thinks that great times are coming; "I really think this is the beginning of something special," Jones said.
The Redskins could see a lot of defensive players leave via free agency. (Given the performance of the defense this year, that may not be a bad thing.)
The Eagles' punt team has played an unsung role in the team's surge.
Giants WR Victor Cruz says the contract Jay Z negotiated for former Yankees 2B Robinson Cano is a "stepping stone" to bigger things.
The Bears have given a refund to a local family who had eight tickets worth $920 stolen by friends of the family's children.
If the Lions win three of their final four games, they'll win their first division title since 1993.
Quarterback guru Steve Clarkson, who helped Vikings QB Josh Freeman prepare for the 2009 draft, thinks Freeman should have skipped the rest of the season after being cut in Tampa.
Embattled Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers says he has no intention to retire.
Buccaneers WR Tiquan Underwood says Rutgers WR Brandon Coleman "could play in the NFL right now."
Falcons WR Julio Jones is off crutches. (We'll be impressed when he's off bread.)
Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams' numbers are still down, but he doesn't care because the team is winning.
Saints C Brian de la Puente has named his son "Rivers," the same name former Saints DB Steve Gleason gave to his son; "I want my son to know [Gleason's] story, and I think one day he will," de la Puente said.
Drake hung out with the Seahawks on Thursday.
He's on pace for career-high receiving numbers, but Rams TE Jared Cook isn't happy with his performance.
Cook could have a big game against the Cardinals (like he did in Week One), given Arizona's chronic inability to cover tight ends.
49ers QB Colin Kaepernick has never beaten the Seahawks. (More accurately, he's never not been blown out by the Seahawks.)
LeSean McCoy: There's a big gap between Barry Sanders and me
Eagles running back LeSean McCoy has heard the comparisons between himself and Barry Sanders. But McCoy doesn't particularly agree with those comparisons.
McCoy says it's flattering that his elusive running style is sometimes compared to the former Lion and Hall of Famer, but McCoy also acknowledges that his own body of work is nowhere close to what Sanders accomplished in the NFL.
"I don't really see it as a comparison," McCoy said, via Philly.com. "I think Barry is probably the best running back to ever play this game. They compare us probably because of the cutbacks, but there is still a big gap between us two."
McCoy is right: Although McCoy makes some great highlight-reel runs, there's really no one like Sanders. And McCoy hasn't been anywhere near the workhorse back that Sanders was. Sanders led the league in rushing four times, was second in the NFL in rushing three times, was third once, fourth once and fifth once. McCoy, who is currently second in the league in rushing, has never led the league and has only been in the Top 10 once before.
So while McCoy is a very good running back, he hasn't earned the comparisons to Sanders. It's classy of him to acknowledge that.
Favre finally wins his second championship
It's a Saturday morning in December. Which according to PFT bylaws means that it's time to provide an update regarding a former NFL quarterback whose lingering relevance to the game comes in other ways.
It required a coin flip between an offer recently made by the Milan Seamen and the exploits of Oak Grove High School.
In the ensuing battle of five-letter quarterbacks, the older guy won.
According to the Hattiesburg American, Brett Favre won his second football championship via a retirement gig as offensive coordinator at the high school where he worked out during his various retirements. The Oak Grove Warriors beat Tupelo, 14-7, for the school's first Mississippi high school state championship.
"I can't say it's like a Super Bowl, but it's pretty close," Favre said, via the Associated Press. "It really is. It's a different type of feeling, but I couldn't be more proud of these guys. It's been a lot of fun."
The decisive points came not from Favre's playbook, but from a fake field goal.
"That was all the special teams' coach," Favre said. "I don't call trick plays."
Tune in next Saturday for the latest news on the former five-letter quarterback with the demeanor of Buddy the Elf.
Bob McNair says Texans will hire an experienced NFL head coach
Texans owner Bob McNair apparently isn't looking for the next Chip Kelly.
McNair said after firing head coach Gary Kubiak that his successor will be someone who has experience in the NFL. That would rule out hiring someone like Kelly, who jumped from Oregon to the Eagles last year having no NFL experience at all.
"We would like someone who has had head coaching experience, but has also had NFL experience," McNair said. "It's a combination of those two things would be the ideal situation and there are people who meet those conditions."
Art Briles of Baylor and Kevin Sumlin of Texas A&M have both been mentioned as coaches who might interest McNair, but the fact that neither of them has any NFL experience (not to mention that both of them signed contract extensions last month) would seem to rule them out for the Texans job. McNair also indicated that he's looking for someone with prior head-coaching experience, not an experienced assistant coach (which is what Kubiak was when McNair hired him).
"Well, experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL, met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience," McNair said. "And if you take someone who has been a coordinator, you're basically moving them from a lower level of management, let's say, to a higher level of management that they've never been in before. So, there's a question mark as to whether they can elevate their performance to be able to handle those additional responsibilities, and some people can't."
Some candidates who fit McNair's criteria include Lovie Smith, Jack Del Rio, Jon Gruden, Ken Whisenhunt and the Texans' current interim head coach, Wade Phillips.
NFLPA didn't tweak or change "runner rule"
Earlier, we shared (and characterized) a report regarding the NFLPA's "runner rule." Per the initial Twitter report from FOX Sports, the NFLPA "tweaked" the runner rule, allowing non-certified employees who work with NFLPA agents to sit in on meetings.
PFT has since obtained a copy of the memo sent Friday to all NFLPA-certified agents.
Based on the memo, the runner rule hasn't been tweaked or changed or revised. The NFLPA has interpreted the rule to allow a non-certified employee to meet once — and only once — with a potential client. The meeting must occur at the certified agent's place of business, and the certified agent must be present.
More importantly, no other contact may occur between the non-certified employee and the certified agent. Specifically, there can be no phone calls, text messages, emails, social media contacts, or in-person meetings.
The rule permits only one meeting at the certified agent's office. At the meeting, the non-certified employee can't act as a closer. Instead, the meeting may happen "in order to introduce that player to the range of services and capabilities offered by" the certified agent's firm.
It's unclear how this interpretation has resulted in the reported decision by the NFLPA to clear Kim Miale, the certified agent who works for Jay Z's Roc Nation agency, of violating the rule. Unless Jay Z (who is not certified by the NFLPA to represent players) attended only one meeting with the goal of introducing Jets quarterback Geno Smith to the services and capabilities of the firm with no other contact of any kind, a violation still occurred.
As a source with knowledge of the NFLPA's rules explained it to PFT, it's possible the union's Committee on Agent Regulation and Discipline simply decided to cut Miale a break because she is relatively inexperienced and the rule is relatively new.
MJD says he'll "definitely" be ready to go in Week 15
The Jaguars have become a juggernaut, winning four of five games after an 0-8 start that exclusively featured double-digit losses.
As they try to stretch their streak to five wins in six games, the Jags apparently will have their star running back in the lineup. Maurice Jones-Drew, appearing on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio, said that he'll play next weekend notwithstanding a hamstring injury suffered on Thursday night against the Texans.
"Definitely," Jones-Drew said. "Definitely. That's always been the plan. Right now, I mean, I just want to make sure everything is on track. And then we'll see how it goes next week but I expect to be out there playing with my teammates."
In other words, Friday's MRI went well.
"It's what we, I think, what we figured out was just a strained hamstring," Jones-Drew said. "I've played with those before so it's not that big of a deal. You just have to get the necessary treatments and things done so you can get back and get on the field for Sunday."
For Jones-Drew, the added importance of playing comes from an expiring contract. Even if he were under contract for 2014, the Jags are starting to do something special under coach Gus Bradley. To turn things around so dramatically at a time when the season was essentially over reflects well on Bradley, the players, and the organization.
Report: Browner rejects deal on suspension
Like Broncos linebacker Von Miller earlier this year, Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner faces a lengthy suspension. Unlike Miller, Brandon hasn't worked out a deal.
According to Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports, Browner has rejected an offer that would have suspended him until early October 2014. That arrangement would have blocked Browner's opportunity to hit the free-agent market in March.
It's possible that further negotiations will result in a compromise.
Per Garafolo, Browner disputes not only his placement in Stage Three of the substance-abuse program upon his return to the NFL in 2011 but also the test that triggered the current violation. Browner claims that the "urine collector used a damaged cup and then poured his urine from that cup into another one," according to Garafolo, and that Browner's request to compel testimony from the urine collector at the appeal hearing was denied.
The league's Medical Review Officer testified at the hearing that he had spoken with the urine collector, who disputed Browner's contentions.
It's possible that the league regarded Browner's allegation as dubious, given that Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman successfully used precisely same argument last year to beat a four-game suspension for violation of the performance-enhancing substances policy. For Browner, who knew he was in Stage Three at the time he provided the sample that tested positive, the high stakes created to a natural temptation to embellish.
The appeal hearing concluded nine days ago. The substance-abuse policy requires that a decision be issued within a reasonable time.
King: Steelers draft-pick forfeiture highly unlikely
The $100,000 fine imposed on Steelers coach Mike Tomlin for his sideline side-step carries with it another potential sanction. The league has said that "modification or forfeiture of draft choices will be considered after the final order of the 2014 draft has been determined."
Peter King of TheMMQB.com said on Friday's edition of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN that further sanctions are highly unlikely.
Per King, the Steelers would lose a draft pick only if the Ravens fail to make it to the playoffs based on the absence of the four extra points that would have been scored if receiver Jacoby Jones had managed to make it to the end zone on the kickoff return with which Tomlin interfered. (The drive ended in one of Justin Tucker's five field goals on the night.)
Net points in common game is the eighth tiebreaker among two potential wild-card teams and the ninth tiebreaker for all other ties. As a result, the chances of those lost four points keeping the Ravens out of the playoffs are slim.
If they do, then the Steelers will face some sort of draft-pick penalty.
DeAndre Levy fined $15,750 for penalty he called "a joke"
After the Lions' Thanksgiving win over the Packers, Detroit linebacker DeAndre Levy said of a penalty he got for a hit on a defenseless receiver, "It's a joke."
Apparently the league office didn't find anything funny about it.
Levy has been fined $15,750 for the hit, which he delivered on Packers tight end Ryan Taylor while Taylor was in a defenseless posture.
Although Levy tried to get his helmet to the side and lead with his shoulder as Taylor caught the ball, Levy did make contact with Taylor's helmet. The bottom line in the NFL these days is if you make contact with a defenseless receiver's helmet, you should expect a 15-yard penalty and a deduction in your paycheck.
ESPN report names ESPN's Jon Gruden as a possible Texans coach
Every time a new report surfaces connecting Jon Gruden to a coaching job, the company line at ESPN is that Gruden is committed to remaining in the Monday Night Football booth. And so far, every time the company line has been right.
But the latest report to link Gruden to a coaching vacancy appeared on ESPN, where John Clayton reported today that Gruden could be one of the candidates in Houston. An on-screen graphic accompanying Clayton's report put Gruden atop a list of candidates that also includes Lovie Smith, Mike Shanahan, Ken Whisenhunt, and Tom Cable.
That's an interesting list. Smith's presence on it isn't exactly news, considering that Texans owner Bob McNair specifically mentioned that he plans to interview Smith for the job. Whisenhunt's presence isn't surprising, either, as Whisenhunt had some success during his tenure as head coach of the Cardinals and is having a good first year as the Chargers' offensive coordinator.
The other two names are a little more surprising. Shanahan already has a job in Washington, so if Clayton thinks McNair will be interviewing Shanahan, he also must think Dan Snyder will be firing Shanahan. And Cable had an uninspiring tenure as head coach in Oakland, although his work as the offensive line coach in Seattle the last three years may have rehabilitated his image enough that some team will give him a second chance.
But Gruden's name is the one that will raise eyebrows. Perhaps Gruden can address his colleague's report on Monday Night Football.
Saints aim for record indoor crowd noise
Six nights after the Saints heard 137.6 decibels of noise at an open-air stadium they were visiting, they could hear nearly as much at home.
The Saints have announced that the Superdome faithful will be making a run on Sunday night at the record for the loudest roar at an indoor sports stadium. The Saints host the Panthers on NBC's Sunday Night Football.
"We, as an organization, take tremendous pride in the great home field advantage that our fans provide for us each and every home game," Saints owner Tom Benson said. "This is a unique opportunity to enter the Guinness Book of Records and we're confident that our fans will help us achieve the goal. It's a testament to their passion that we're hosting a representative from Guinness Book of Records and it speaks to the anticipation that they have for how loud our crowd will be. We were part of history last week in Seattle and we are confident that our fans can make history, too."
The record, set last month in Sacramento for a Kings game (really?), is a mere 126 decibels.
It's the latest in a stream of noise records pursued by sports teams. Which is great news for the folks who maintain the Guinness Book of World Records, which many (including me) forgot existed.


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The Hutu /ˈhuːtuː/, also known as the Abahutu, is an ethnic group in Central Africa. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where they form one of the principal population divisions alongside the Tutsi and the Twa.
The Hutu is the largest of the four main population divisions in Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Central Intelligence Agency, 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis the next largest ethnic group at 15% and 14% of residents in Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.[1][2] The Twa pygmies, the smallest of the two countries' principal populations, also share language and culture with the Hutu and Tutsi. However, they are distinguished by a considerably shorter stature.[3][4]
The Hutu are believed to have first emigrated to Central Africa from West Africa in the great Bantu expansion.[5] Various theories have emerged to explain the purported physical differences between them and their fellow Bantu-speaking neighbors, the Tutsi. One such thesis, largely based on oral tradition, posits that the Tutsi experienced some admixture with or were partially descended from migrants of Caucasoid stock, who usually were said to have arrived in the Great Lakes region from the Horn of Africa and/or North Africa. These pastoralists were then reckoned to have established aristocracies over the sedentary Hutu and Twa. Through intermarriage with the local Bantus, the herders were gradually assimilated culturally, linguistically and racially.[6]
An alternate theory is that the Hutu and Tutsi originally belonged to the same Bantu population, but were artificially divided by German and then Belgian colonists so that the Tutsi minority could serve as local overseers for Berlin and Brussels. The latter view has received support among proponents of Rwandan national unity, but has been criticized as an attempt at historical revisionism.[7][8]
Still others suggest that the two groups are related but not identical, and that differences between them were exacerbated by Europeans,[9] or by a gradual, natural split, as those who owned cattle became known as Tutsi and those who did not became Hutu.[4] Mahmood Mamdani states that the Belgian colonial power designated people as Tutsi or Hutu on the basis of cattle ownership, physical measurements and church records.[10]
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the Hutu and Tutsi are really separate groups or not - the government of Ruanda seems to no longer use any such distinction.
Hutus speak Rwanda-Rundi as their native tongue, which is a member of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger–Congo language family. Rwanda-Rundi is subdivided into the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi dialects, which have been standardized as official languages of Rwanda and Burundi respectively. It is also spoken as a mother tongue by the Tutsi and Twa.
Additionally, many Hutu speak French, the other official language of Rwanda and Burundi, as a lingua franca.
Modern-day genetic studies of the Y-chromosome (paternal line) suggest a close ethnic kinship between the Hutu and other neighboring Bantu peoples, particularly the Tutsi. Like the Tutsi, the Hutu largely belong to the E1b1a haplogroup (83%), which is associated with the Bantu expansion from West Africa. A minority carry the E2 (8%), B (4%), E1b1b (3%) and R1 (1%) clades.[5] In comparison to the Hutu however, the Tutsi have three times as much genetic influence from Nilo-Saharan populations (14.9% B) as the Hutu (4.3% B) perhaps demonstrating a Nilo-Saharan origin that supports their pastoralist historical affiliations of the Tutsi, as opposed to the Hutu who were primarily agriculturalists. [11] As there have been no mtDNA (maternal) studies of the Hutu alone as compared to the Tutsi, however, the precise genetic affiliations and possible migration histories of the two groups are still unclear.
Following the Rwandan genocide, there has been a sustained effort to highlight the close genetic affiliations of the Hutu and Tutsi, who are overwhelmingly of shared Bantu stock:
[...]generations of gene flow obliterated whatever clear-cut physical distinctions may have once existed between these two Bantu peoples – renowned to be height, body build, and facial features. With a spectrum of physical variation in the peoples, Belgian authorities legally mandated ethnic affiliation in the 1920s, based on economic criteria. Formal and discrete social divisions were consequently imposed upon ambiguous biological distinctions. To some extent, the permeability of these categories in the intervening decades helped to reify the biological distinctions, generating a taller elite and a shorter underclass, but with little relation to the gene pools that had existed a few centuries ago. The social categories are thus real, but there is little if any detectable genetic differentiation between Hutu and Tutsi.[12]
However this effort has been viewed by some as attempts at historical revisionism. [7][8]
Based on a non-peer-reviewed analysis of the autosomal genetics of the Tutsi, Razib Khan suggests that "the Tutsi were in all likelihood once a Nilotic speaking population, who switched to the language of the Bantus amongst whom they settled."[13][14]
Post-colonial history[edit]
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The Belgian-sponsored Tutsi monarchy survived until 1959, when Kigeli V was exiled from the colony (then called Ruanda-Urundi). In Burundi, Tutsis, who are the minority, maintained control of the government and military. In Rwanda, the political power was transferred from the minority Tutsi to the majority Hutu.[15] In Rwanda, this led to the "Social revolution" and Hutu violence against Tutsis. Tens of thousands of Tutsis were killed and many others fled to neighboring countries, such as Burundi, Uganda and expanding the Banyamulenge Tutsi ethnic group in the South Kivu region of the Belgian Congo. Later, exiled Tutsis from Burundi invaded Rwanda, prompting Rwanda to close its border with Burundi.
In Burundi, a campaign of genocide was conducted against Hutu population in 1972,[16][17][18][19][20] and an estimated 100,000 Hutus died.[21][21] In 1993, Burundi's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, who was Hutu, was believed to be assassinated by Tutsi officers, as was the person constitutionally entitled to succeed him.[22] This sparked a period of civil strife between Hutu political structures and the Tutsi military, in which an estimated 500,000 Burundians died.[citation needed] There were many mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus; these events were deemed genocide by the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi.[23]
While Tutsi remained in control of Burundi, the conflict resulted in genocide in Rwanda as well.[24] A Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, which started a civil war against Rwanda's Hutu government in 1990. A peace agreement was signed, but violence erupted again, culminating in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, when Hutu extremists killed[25] an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis.[26] About 30% of the Twa population of Rwanda were also killed.[27] At the same time, the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country and is still the ruling party as of 2012[update]. Burundi is also currently governed by a former rebel group, the Hutu CNDD-FDD.
As of 2006, violence between the Hutu and Tutsi had subsided, but the situation in both Rwanda and Burundi was still tense, and tens of thousands of Rwandans were still living outside the country (see Great Lakes refugee crisis).[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b CIA World Factbook writers. "Rwanda: People". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ CIA World Factbook writers. "Burundi: People". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica writers. "Twa". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2006-11-01.
- ^ a b "The Meaning of "Hutu," "Tutsi," and "Twa"". Human Rights Watch. 1999. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ a b Luis, J; Rowold, D; Regueiro, M; Caeiro, B; Cinnioglu, C; Roseman, C; Underhill, P; Cavallisforza, L et al. (2004). "The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations". The American Journal of Human Genetics 74 (3): 532–44. doi:10.1086/382286. PMC 1182266. PMID 14973781.
- ^ International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, Africa, Volume 76, (Oxford University Press., 2006), pg 135.
- ^ a b Joseph Mutaboba. "I am Rwandese (at bottom of page)". New Internationalist. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ a b Saumitra Sen (2006-01-30). "Invasion Theories". Retrieved 2011-05-17.
- ^ Vernellia R., Randall (2006-02-16). "Sexual Violence and Genocide Against Tutsi Women". University of Dayton. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
- ^ Mahmood Mamdani (2001) When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
- ^ Luis, J. R.; et al. (2004). "The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations". American Journal of Human Genetics 74 (3): 532–544. doi:10.1086/382286. PMC 1182266. PMID 14973781. (Errata)
- ^ Joseph C. Miller (ed.), New Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 2, Dakar-Hydrology, Charles Scribner's Sons (publisher).
- ^ Razib Khan, "Tutsi probably differ genetically from the Hutu" (August 29, 2011) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/tutsi-differ-genetically-from-the-hutu/#more-13708 (last accessed September 12, 2011)
- ^ Razib Khan, "Tutsi genetic, ii" (August 31, 2011) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/tutsi-genetics-ii/ (last accessed September 12, 2011)
- ^ Adekunle, Julius. 2007. Culture and Customs of Rwanda. P.17
- ^ Michael Bowen, Passing by;: The United States and genocide in Burundi, 1972, (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1973), 49 pp
- ^ René Lemarchand, Selective genocide in Burundi (Report - Minority Rights Group; no. 20, 1974), 36 pp.
- ^ Rene Lemarchand, Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (New York: Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge University Press, 1996), 232 pp.
- Edward L. Nyankanzi, Genocide: Rwanda and Burundi (Schenkman Books, 1998), 198 pp.
- ^ Christian P. Scherrer, Genocide and crisis in Central Africa: conflict roots, mass violence, and regional war; foreword by Robert Melson. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002.
- ^ Weissman, Stephen R. "Preventing Genocide in Burundi Lessons from International Diplomacy", United States Institute of Peace
- ^ a b Rwanda 1994: Genocide + Politicide, Christian Davenport and Allan Stam
- ^ International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi: Final Report. Part III: Investigation of the Assassination. Conclusions at USIP.org
- ^ International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi (2002)
- ^ "The Hutu Revolution". Human Rights Watch. 1999. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ "Timeline of the genocide". PBS. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
- ^ "How the genocide happened". BBC. 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
- ^ "Minorities Under Siege: Pygmies today in Africa". UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-11.


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