In his previous remarks in Canada recently, Patrick Muyaya, Kinshasa regime mouthpiece, shamelessly invented a new language “A Kihutu” and attributed it to a certain section of Congolese.
In all linguistic research covering languages and dialects, no such thing as a Kihutu language was ever documented.
Obviously, for anyone who has been keenly following conflict and insecurity in the Eastern DRC, that was a quick way for Muyaya delegitimize Tutsis Congolese, to justify why his regime works with FDLR and possibly shield or cover their criminal responsibility.
Indeed, FDLR, being a genocidal militia composed of remnants of FAR, the bloody force that committed the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, is largely composed of Hutus, but that is not the problem, because not all Hutus are genocidaires. In fact, Rwanda abolished that politic of ethnicity and divisionism. Yet, for Muyaya to openly lie about such an identity in DRC and then give it its own language is pathetic.
This isn’t just a linguistic fantasy. It is part of a deliberate narrative to discredit Congolese Tutsis by painting them as foreigners in their own land. First, they were called “Rwandan poison,” then “cockroaches,” “microbes,” “vermin,” and “treacherous” women. Now they speak the “wrong language.” The message is clear: in Kinshasa’s eyes, being Tutsi in DRC is a crime against nationality itself.
Muyaya’s statements are not simply ridiculous; they are dangerous. When a government spokesperson invents a language to divide people, it is no longer about words, it is about creating enemies, justifying exclusion, and rewriting history to suit a political agenda. This is the same strategy that has justified massacres, land dispossessions, and systemic discrimination against Tutsis for decades.
And yet, Muyaya and his bosses parade a few Congolese Tutsis in Washington or Ottawa, flaunting them like props to earn a few green bills, while simultaneously telling their community back home that their ancestors’ language was nothing more than an invented “Kihutu.” It’s a grotesque exercise in historical revisionism and moral bankruptcy.
If Kinshasa regime thinks it will erase centuries of history, culture, and memory, by inventing languages, it is sadly mistaken. You cannot fabricate identities, and expect the truth to vanish. Congolese Tutsis know who they are, where they come from, and the brutal legacy they survived. Muyaya, on the other hand, is just adding another layer of shame to an already shameful performance.
In the end, “Kihutu” is more than a lie, it is a mirror of the Kinshasa regime: desperate, dishonest, and dangerously divisive. Those who survive, remember, and resist will continue to laugh at the absurdity, even as they prepare for the next round of lies.
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