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Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s dea… ...
The Hutu and Tutsi came to accept these identities, to some degree, which made political activism across tribal lines hard to achieve — precisely the Belgians’ goal.
A witness in the "Media Trial" today told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that the Hutu and the Tutsi should not be considered only as tribes but as social classes.
The nation’s Tutsi president handed power to a leader from the Hutu tribe in a power-sharing arrangement designed to end bloodshed. President Pierre Buyoya stepped down for Vice President ...
In the past month alone, three people asked me if I was Hutu or Tutsi after I told them I was Rwandan. One of them was a white elderly man who was just walking by as I was chit chatting with ...
What is it like to be a Congolese Tutsi ... leading to tensions with the Hutu majority. ... "We have 450 tribes and there is conflict between some of them in many parts of the country ...
In 1994, he led a force of exiles called the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF, that defeated the genocidal regime, driving perpetrators from the rival Hutu tribe across the border into what is now ...
Rather than two separate tribes, Hutu and Tutsi are different ethnic groups of the same society. The Tutsi migrated from the Horn of Africa in the area of Ethiopia to the Lake Victoria region of ...