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It should be remembered however that under the law of 2l August 1925 Ruanda-Urundi is
united for administretive purposes to the Belgian Congo, and constitutes a
Vice-Government General thereof; p11
The preamble to the legislative ordinance of 4 October 1943 on the
native political organization of Ruanda-Urundi explains Belgium's decision
to preserve the customs and customary Powers of the native authorities.
It says:
"Whereas in the Belgian Congo the administration was faced with
a great variety of ethnical groups, and political and social
organizations often in an advanced stage of disintegration, the
situation in Ruanda-Urundi was quite different.
"Here it found only two ethnical groups, the Banyaruanda and
the Barundi, both of considerable size, closely related by origin,
language and institutions, with firm social and political structures,
and which had been sheltered by their lakes and mountains from any
destructive virus which contact with more developed peoples might have
brought in its train.
"Thus all it had to do was to accord them recognition and make
the necessary local arrangements in order to adapt them to the new
conditions created by the introduction of European civilization and
the policy of indireot administration which is being so successfully
pursued in Ruanda- Urundi. " p12
mythe hamitique p35
By possessing a certain number of cows the muhutu could even be considered a mututsi p35-36
a veritable adoration of the cow p36
2. The Mission welcomes the recent establishment of the Vice-Government
General's Council, but regrets that there are no African members on the
Council. p73
