Tutsis in a sentence

The genocide took place following decades of tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, and a recent history of persecution against Tutsis.

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

Thousands of Tutsis fled and formed a rebel group that fought against the Hutus for decades.

He maintained that Onana did not deny the genocide occurred or that Tutsis were particularly targeted.

Mr Rusesabagina, 66, shot to international fame when he was depicted as a hero in the film Hotel Rwanda, for his role in saving more than a thousand people from being killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis.

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.

The Hutu nationalists initiated the mass killings and called for local citizens to engage in the violence against their neighbors, the Tutsis.

The zone did actually help in saving the lives of Tutsis and other victims of the genocide.

At the head of the list are those who deny the reality of the genocide against the Tutsis, a justified accusation that we wholeheartedly share.

Ganimana was one of them, still determined to keep the flames of hatred against the Tutsis even in exile.

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.

The Cour de Cassation, France's court of final appeal, on Thursday ruled it was "obvious" that Simbikangwa had "willingly participated in abuses against the Tutsis and against the civilian population in general".

We’ve seen this language applied throughout history to describe the Roma, Tutsis, and Jewish people, among others.

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.

In a statement the court said he had spread anti-Tutsi propaganda and incited "killings through fomenting anger and contempt towards Tutsis".

In turn, these Zairian Tutsis formed a militia to defend themselves against attacks.

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.