Tutsi
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Tutsis,
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Tutsi
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The RPF was founded as a rebel group by Tutsi exiles including Paul Kagame, now president, to fight the Hutu regime behind the genocide, which it forced from power.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Prior to colonisation, part of the territory that is now DR Congo was subject to the Rwandan monarchy, which is Tutsi.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
That being said, experts and organisations like the UN have documented decades of discrimination against Congolese Tutsis and the Banyamulenge - a Tutsi sub-group concentrated in the South Kivu province.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
In 1959, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi monarch.
From The 1999 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Alison Des Forges, then a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch, pointed to genocide inversion as a central means of justifying the genocide against the Tutsis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
While denying offering the M23 military backing, Rwanda insists that it faces an existential threat from the presence in the eastern DRC of armed groups linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Based in South Kivu, it is mainly made up of Tutsis - and has attacked Burundi in the past.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Secondly, some regional analysts say that rather than seeking to defend Tutsis, the M23 - and Rwanda, which backs the rebel group - is primarily seeking to exploit the eastern DR Congo's vast mineral wealth.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
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