Hutu

The Tutsi monarchy was abolished in 1961 after ethnic violence broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi during the Belgian-led Hutu Revolution, and after a 196 referendum, Rwanda became a Hutu-dominated republic.

Habyarimana, a Hutu, and fellow ethnic Hutu President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, were both on April 6, 1994, as a result of their plane en route to peace negotiations being shot down.

Hutu controlled Burundi shows a Hutu / Tutsi ratio of 85% /15%.

Again thousands of Hutu were forced into exile into Tanzania and Congo to flee another genocide of Hutu.

Mutara made many changes; in 1954 he shared out the land between the Hutu and the Tutsi, and agreed to abolish the system of indentured servitude ( ubuhake and uburetwa ) the Tutsis had practised over the Hutu until then.

Over the course of the next three months, the armed Hutu militias are estimated to have murdered up to 800,000 Tutsis.

Belgium relinquished power in 1962, replaced by a Hutu majority government.

For years after the genocide, Jeanne tells me how her ex-husband – a Nyamurenge (predominantly Tutsi) soldier, would berate her during their marriage, demanding that she admit if she was a Hutu or Tutsi.

Kagame seeks stability by erasing any bureaucratic distinction between Hutu and Tutsi over a generation to return Rwanda to a time when such categories did not matter.

Most Tutsi were murdered by Hutu mobs with traditional weapons in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Some moderate Hutu who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority also were targeted and killed.

The government said it's calling on Rwanda to stop supporting M23, the DRC to stop its support of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda — a Hutu-led rebel group operating from the DRC — and other non-state armed groups to withdraw the region.

The volcanic time frame is short term, because just as the Rwandans—both Hutu and Tutsi—came back as soon as it was possible, those ejected by a volcanic migration do not surrender their allegiance to their homeland and always hope to return.

Burundi underwent a constitutional crisis in 2015 after former Hutu rebel leader President Pierre Nkurunzizain ran for a legally questionable third term and won, prompting widespread protests that were violently repressed.

His death unleashed a conflict in which both the Tutsi-led army and mainly Hutu rebels were accused of atrocities against civilians.

Its troops killed thousands of predominantly Hutu civilians, though the scale and nature of these killings were not comparable to the genocide.

South Africa's mediation efforts were, as noted above, pivotal to ending the civil war between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu political and armed factions that ravaged Burundi between 1993 and 2005.

A day later, that same Hutu woman came back, took Karanganwa and one of the two sons who was not yet dead, and hid them in a dog’s house for a few days before taking them to a hospital.

A Rwandan Hutu rebel leader wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crime charges has been shot dead by the Congolese army, a DRC military spokesperson said on Wednesday in what Kigali called “good news for peace”.

A Tutsi can’t rely only on a Hutu to speak the truth about their genocide.