Tutsi in a sentence

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.

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.

He used his clout to organize killings of the Tutsi in Kigali, especially the murder of a Belgian citizen, Claire Beckers, as well as her Tutsi husband, Isaie Bucyana, and their daughter Katia in April 1994, in Kigali.

Although the majority of pasture lands remained under Tutsi control, the Hutu began to feel more liberation from Tutsi rule.

Before the colonial period about 15-16% of the population was Tutsi; many of these were poor peasants, but the majority of the ruling elite and monarchy were Tutsi.

In July 1959, when the Tutsi Mwami (King) Mutara III Charles died following a routine vaccination, some Tutsi thought he had been assassinated.

With Kabila's success in the Congo, he no longer desired an alliance with the Tutsi-RPF Rwandan army and the Ugandan forces, and in August 1998 ordered both the Ugandans and Tutsi-Rwandan army out of the DRC.

Despite his clear role in the Tutsi genocide, the Rwandan financier of a notorious radio station will not be convicted by the UN tribunal at the Hague because he is suffering from extensive dementia.

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.

These instances include attacks against Tutsi farmers and their cattle and scores of racially motivated arrests.

The Tutsi-led M23, backed by neighbouring Rwanda according to the United States and other Western nations, had briefly occupied the city at the end of 2012, before being defeated the following year.

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 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.

Yet the rebels are now using the abuse against Tutsi as a justification for the ongoing rebellion.

According to scholars, the Jewish holocaust and the Genocide against the Tutsi were forerun by dehumanization propaganda and incitement; and these tendencies must not be given room in society today as nations look at building sustainable peace.

Following his arrest, Mr Rusesabagina, whose heroic actions during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi inspired the Hollywood movie 'Hotel Rwanda', was paraded before the media by Rwandan authorities on Monday.

He also was accused of establishing the station Radio Television Mille Collines that broadcast vicious propaganda against the ethnic Tutsi minority, as well as training and equipping a militia that led the killing spree.

He participated in the establishment of the National Defence Fund that was used to raise money to provide financial and logistical support for the Interahamwe to kill and harm Tutsi.