Hutu
Tutsi's historical rivals
Hutu refers to a member of a Bantu-speaking people who form the majority population in Rwanda and Burundi.
The term appears most often in discussions of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which Hutu extremists killed approximately 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus over roughly 100 days.
The distinction between Hutu and Tutsi, though treated as ethnic, originated largely as a social and economic classification under colonial rule.
Systematic annihilation of a people
- KigaliRwanda's capital city
- macheteHeavy broad-bladed knife
- roadblockObstruction across a road
- identity cardPersonal identification document
Over half of total
- BantuAfrican language family
- agriculturalistFarming specialist
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- identity cardPersonal identification document
clan · lineage · intermarriage · Belgian · ethnicity · caste
Person fleeing danger abroad
- CongoMajor Central African waterway
- TanzaniaDodoma-capital nation
- UgandaEast African republic
- exileBanishment from homeland
camps · repatriation · returnee · displacement · migration
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
majority
Over half of total
- BantuAfrican language family
- agriculturalistFarming specialist
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
identity card · clan · lineage · intermarriage · Belgian · ethnicity · caste
refugee
Person fleeing danger abroad
exile · camps · repatriation · returnee · displacement · migration
drumming
Percussive rhythm-making
- SorghumCereal grass genus
- African PeoplesEgyptians, Nigerians, South Africans, Zulu, Moroccans
- East AfricaKenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
- East African peoplesMaasai, Somali, Shambala, Nubians, Nubian
- ethnic groupsJews, Arabs, Chinese, Irish, Greeks
- Burundiregions, German East Africa, colonial history, historical sites, cultural landmarks
- Burundi historycoups, ethnic conflict, ethnic violence, massacres, military coups