tutsi in English
As in Rwanda, the fighting in Burundi pits the ethnic minority Tutsi against the majority Hutu.
Driven into exile, Tutsi children formed the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Use "tutsi" in a sentence
1. Two tribes, Hutu and Tutsi, fought each other.
2. Burundi has to two distinct ethnic groups: the Hutu and the Tutsi
3. An aristocratic people, the Tutsi long held the peasant Bahutu, or Hutu, in feudal subjugation
4. Prior to the colonial period all Rwandans — Hutu, Tutsi and Twa alike — had gone to those schools.
5. At one stage, the cost of smuggling Tutsi brothers out of the country was $100 (U.S.) per person.
6. Witnesses of the Hutu tribe put their own lives in jeopardy in order to protect their Tutsi brothers!
7. For example, during the 1994 ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, Jehovah’s Witnesses remained completely neutral.
8. In 1994 over half a million Tutsi were massacred in Rwanda, simply because they belonged to the “wrong” tribe.
9. The United Nations mandates, the Tutsi elite class, and the Belgian colonists contributed to the growing social and political unrest.
10. Bamina was soon also assassinated and the Tutsi monarch installed his own personal secretary, Leopold Biha, as the Prime Minister in his place.
11. Accompanied by the sound of music performed by a Tutsi harpist, women dedicated their time to embroidery and bead-making as well as Basketry.
12. IN Rwanda, Hutu and Tutsi Witnesses of Jehovah risked their lives to protect one another from the ethnic slaughter that recently swept that land.
13. Consequently, Burundians, especially from the Hutu and Tutsi groups internalized this representation of Burundi society to the extent of using it as a source of resentment and conflict
14. So for instance, what I did when I went to Burundi, we'd got Tutsi and Hutu women together to talk about some of the problems that had taken place in Rwanda.
15. The Bahutu Manifesto, drafted by nine Rwandan Hutu intellectuals in 1957, was a political document that called for Hutu ethnic and political solidarity, as well as the political disfranchisement of the Tutsi people
16. Bahutu Manifesto (1957) The Bahutu Manifesto, drafted by nine Rwandan Hutu intellectuals in 1957, was a political document that called for Hutu ethnic and political solidarity, as well as the political disfranchisement of the Tutsi people
17. She later claimed that in 1959 she had saved the life of a two-year-old Tutsi boy by tying beads from her necklace into his hair so that he could pass as a girl and escape execution by the Hutus.
18. Hutu, also called Bahutu or Wahutu, Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi.Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast majority in both countries but were traditionally subject to the Tutsi (q.v.), warrior-pastoralists of Nilotic stock.
19. Kagame also desired this, both to increase the resources of Rwanda by adding those of the Kivu region, and also to add the Tutsi population, which the Banyamulenge represented, back into Rwanda, thereby reinforcing his political base and protecting the indigenous Tutsis living there, who had also suffered massacres from the Interhamwe.