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
Meanwhile, Tutsi refugees began arriving in DR Congo, fleeing waves of ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, Makenga quit school at the age of 17 to join a Tutsi rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
Rwanda: In 1959, three years before independence, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus overthrew the ruling Tutsi king.
From The 2001 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
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.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
They claim they are revolutionaries battling a failed state, and defending the rights of minority Tutsis.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
Subsequently, other Tutsis have migrated to DR Congo in waves.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
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