Hutu

[ hoo-too ]

noun

, plural Hu·tus, (especially collectively) Hu·tu.

1. a member of a Bantu farming people of Rwanda and Burundi, in central Africa.

Hutu

/ ˈhuːˌtuː /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of Rwanda and Burundi

Example Sentences

This was in the wake of the genocidal Hutu-Tutsi war in neighboring Rwanda.

From The Daily Beast

Exactly 20 years ago, the sitting government in Rwanda commenced a genocide against minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu populations.

From The Daily Beast

Who knows how many Hutu civilians were killed before and after 1994?

From The Daily Beast

The ethnic categories of Hutu and Tutsi that fuelled division and ultimately genocide have been banned.

From The Daily Beast

The FDLR is one of the most prominent Hutu rebel groups, which allegedly committed acts of genocide in Rwanda in the early-1990s.

From The Daily Beast

Beside the trail grew the hutu-tree with crimson-tasseled flowers among broad leaves, and fruit prickly and pear-shaped.

From Project Gutenberg