Friday, July 22, 2016

royal drum

In October 1958, Joseph Gitera, one of the new Hutu leaders, asked Mgr Perrudin to get rid of the Kaliga, the sacred royal drum, because, being decorated with the testicles of vanquished Hutu princes it could not be considered a symbol of national unity. The Tutsi court notables strongly protested. - The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, pg.47
as quoted here (this review is worth reading)

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