Tutsi

[ toot-see ]

noun

, plural Tut·sis, (especially collectively) Tut·si.

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

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

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More recently, Hutus began macheteing their Tutsi neighbors one day after the president of Rwanda was killed.

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The 1994 Rwandan government attempted to eliminate en masse the Tutsi population.

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

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Pursued for being a Tutsi, she took refuge with three different families, who hid her in the capital of Kigali.

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