Tutsi
[toot-see]
- a member of a very tall, slender, cattle-raising people of Rwanda and Burundi.
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Also called Watusi, Watutsi.
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More 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.
Exactly 20 years ago, the sitting government in Rwanda commenced a genocide against minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu populations.
Pursued for being a Tutsi, she took refuge with three different families, who hid her in the capital of Kigali.
The memorial bones are Tutsi bones, yet those who look upon them are summoned to face the future as one nation.
Tutsi
- a member of a people of Rwanda and Burundi, probably a Nilotic people
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