Tutsi

[toot-see]

noun

plural

Tutsis ,

plural

Tutsi .

1. a member of a very tall, slender, cattle-raising people of Rwanda and Burundi.

Tutsi

/ ˈtuːtsɪ /

noun

1. a member of a people of Rwanda and Burundi, probably a Nilotic people

Example Sentences

Those tensions erupted after the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis over the border in Rwanda, fuelling a cycle of bloody conflict in the eastern DRC that continues to this day.

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He is globally revered for putting a stop to the frenzy of bloodletting 31 years ago, in which extremist members of the Hutu ethnic group murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

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Rwanda denies persistent and widespread allegations that it provides military support to the M23, which is largely made up of the Tutsi ethnic group that was targeted by Hutu militias in the genocide.

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Macron has previously acknowledged France's role in the Rwandan genocide, in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died, and sought forgiveness.

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Mainly led by ethnic Tutsis, it controls large parts of eastern DR Congo - and since January has taken control of Goma, the city of Bukavu and two airports.

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