Tutsi
a member of a very tall, slender, cattle-raising people of Rwanda and Burundi.
- Also called Watusi, Watutsi.
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How to use Tutsi in a sentence
This was in the wake of the genocidal Hutu-Tutsi war in neighboring Rwanda.
Catholic Nuns Aiding Africa's Battered Wives Are Raped and Murdered | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore recently, Hutus began macheteing their Tutsi neighbors one day after the president of Rwanda was killed.
The 1994 Rwandan government attempted to eliminate en masse the Tutsi population.
Still a Problem From Hell, Two Decades After Rwanda | John Prendergast | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTExactly 20 years ago, the sitting government in Rwanda commenced a genocide against minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu populations.
Still a Problem From Hell, Two Decades After Rwanda | John Prendergast | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPursued for being a Tutsi, she took refuge with three different families, who hid her in the capital of Kigali.
Two Decades After Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Have Made the Nation Thrive | Nina Strochlic | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for Tutsi
/ (ˈtuːtsɪ) /
a member of a people of Rwanda and Burundi, probably a Nilotic people
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