Tutsi

The mwami (the Tutsi king) helped the Tutsi and Hutu sides reach an agreement. However, the peace did not last.

But clearly the Rwanda genocide was the result of more than Hutu-Tutsi ethnic hatred.

That show of concern has seemed enough to halt, perhaps only briefly, the advance of the Tutsi rebels.

In the Ivory Coast it was the Burkinabe immigrants; in Zimbabwe, the whites; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Tutsi.

Others assumed that if the genocidal Hutu regime were the bad guys, then the Tutsi rebels who overthrew them must be the good guys.

The Hutu fanatics who seized power blamed the Tutsi rebels of the RPF for the assassination, and used it to justify the genocide.

Members of one group sometimes see members of another group as less than human: Nazi and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Sunni and Shiite.

Cattle herding has always carried a higher status among the Tutsi than farming.

For most of this period, the Europeans treated the Tutsi better than the Hutu.

The three candidates who stood against him are all allies of his Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front.

The killings are usually called ethnic warfare between the Hutu and Tutsi.

Modern Tutsi build rectangular houses with Western-style building materials. These houses have corrugated iron or tile roofs.

There were already stiff penalties for "divisionism" , an acknowledgment of differences between Hutu and Tutsi.

Kabuga's radio station propagated extremist Hutu ideology and incited violence against the Tutsi population of Rwanda.

But even if the policy works, it will come at a high price for the Tutsi survivors of the genocide.

The killings ended three months later after Tutsi rebels fighting a civil war defeated the Hutu government .

However, this Tutsi victory occurred at a great cost in human lives.

they, along with the Congolese army and others, have been fighting the Tutsi rebels.

No more than half of Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi can read and write their native language.

Tutsi folklore includes poetry, proverbs, folk tales, riddles, and myths.

The Tutsi have different greetings for morning, afternoon, and evening.

Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives.

Maggy, a teacher, now builds homes where Hutu and Tutsi orphans live together.

Tutsi in rural areas consume milk products, bananas, and sorghum beer.

However, most of the upper-class rulers were Tutsi.

Another woman, 42, tells how Congolese Tutsi rebels barged into her house four years ago, took all the family's money, and raped her.

Hutu and Tutsi rites of passage are very similar.

The Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa all speak a Central Bantu language.

Tutsi and Hutu families are patrilineal (the family name is passed on by males).

The Tutsi are a people who live in Rwanda, Burundi, and the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Zairian Tutsi rebel child soldier takes up a hidden position in foliage on Nov. 28, 1996, near Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In 1959 Hutu leaders overthrew the Tutsi monarchy in Rwanda.

The Congolese Tutsi warlord Laurent Nkunda (under house arrest in Rwanda since 2009) sent CNDP troops into Shasha in 2008.

Today, Tutsi may choose the person they will marry.

The Tutsi still rule Burundi.

In the past, Tutsi men and women wore robes brought in from the African coast.

Now, officially, no one is a Hutu or Tutsi; there are only Rwandans.

Tutsi who have been refugees in Uganda may also speak English.

Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi. Heritage Library of African Peoples. Twagilimana

now they have come back , these tutsi rebels