Tutsi

Great Lakes people

The Tutsi are an ethnic group in the African Great Lakes region, primarily in Rwanda and Burundi.

Historically distinguished from the Hutu majority by occupation (cattle-herding versus farming) and later by colonial classification, the Tutsi were targeted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists killed an estimated 800,000 people in approximately 100 days.

The term functions as both singular and plural: a Tutsi, the Tutsi.

genocide

Rwanda

East-Central African nation

1994A calendar year
massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
macheteHeavy broad-bladed knife

refugee · survivor · memorial · reconciliation · displacement · atrocity · UN · peacekeeping

diaspora

exile

Banishment from homeland

refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
UgandaEast African republic
CongoMajor Central African waterway

Burundi · migration · displacement · returnee · scattered · community · abroad · resettlement

ethnic

Rwandan

From a small landlocked African nation

BurundianPerson from small African nation
pastoralistGrazer of livestock
minoritySmaller part of whole

kingdom · aristocracy · clan · lineage · intermarriage · identity · classification · colonialism

Categories

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
Persecuted GroupsJews, Romani, Roma, Armenians, Rohingya
EthnicitiesAsian, African, European, Arab, Chinese

Opposites

Rwandan ethnic identity

TutsiHutu

Central African ethnic group

Family

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