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Hutus meaning
plural of Hutu
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Following the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which more than 5-hundred-thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutus were brutally slaughtered, Belafonte launched a media campaign to raise awareness of the needs of Rwandan children.
The genocide took place following decades of tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, and a recent history of persecution against Tutsis.
Thousands of Tutsis fled and formed a rebel group that fought against the Hutus for decades.
He explained that Cameron had told the Iranian government that they must "cease supplying the Hutus with weapons and intelligence and use their influence to stop Houthi attacks".
In 1994, after the overthrow of a Hutu-led regime that had committed a on the Tutsis of neighboring Rwanda, more than a million refugees, mostly Hutus, swamped Goma, prompting aid agencies to set up camps for them.
Now Hutus and Tutsis live side by side in peaceful coexistence, but memories of the genocide are always present.
Most of those in limbo are Hutus, who fled the country after leaders of their ethnic group orchestrated the 1994 mass slaughter of minority Tutsis before.
Another seven years of sporadic violence in Burundi (from 1965–1972) existed between the Hutus and Tutsis.
As a result of this, Europeans came to believe that Tutsis had Caucasian ancestry, and were thus "superior" to Hutus.
As some Tutsis had feared, the tax also made the Hutus feel less bonded to their Tutsi patrons and more dependent on the European foreigners.
Despite Germany's attempt to uphold traditional Tutsi domination of the Hutus, the Hutu began to shift their ideas.
Money came to be seen by many Hutus as a replacement for cattle, in terms of both economic prosperity and for purposes of creating social standing.
The Catholic Church, too, began to oppose Tutsi mistreatment of Hutus, and began promoting equality.
The Germans favored Tutsi dominance over the farming Hutus (almost in a feudalistic manner), the newly formed principalities, and were given basic ruling positions.
The majority Hutus made enormous gains within the country.