plural Hutu or Hutus
: a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi
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The killers, for the most part, came from the Hutu majority — some were formally in the military, but many were part of paramilitary organizations called the interahamwe.
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Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 13 May 2024
Permanent separation of Hutu and Tutsi seemed the only solution.
—Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
The rebels, led by Mr. Kagame, said the Hutu extremists downed the plane as a pretext for genocide.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
When the Hutu military begins enforcing ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority tribe, Paul, a Hutu himself, must shield his Tutsi wife and children.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 5 Apr. 2024
The Hutu were doing that about the Tutsi, the Nazis obviously were doing it about the Jews, and so forth.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
For instance, in 1996, the Rwandan army invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo to root out various Rwandan Hutu militias that had sought sanctuary in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
The Rwandan genocide saw Hutu militias and civilians alike murder vast numbers of members of the Tutsi ethnic minority: men, women and children, many of whom had been their neighbors before the conflict began.
—David McKenzie, CNN, 25 May 2023
Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering the Tutsi, with support from the army, police, and militias.
—Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
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Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 13 May 2024
Permanent separation of Hutu and Tutsi seemed the only solution.
—Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
The rebels, led by Mr. Kagame, said the Hutu extremists downed the plane as a pretext for genocide.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
When the Hutu military begins enforcing ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority tribe, Paul, a Hutu himself, must shield his Tutsi wife and children.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 5 Apr. 2024
The Hutu were doing that about the Tutsi, the Nazis obviously were doing it about the Jews, and so forth.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
For instance, in 1996, the Rwandan army invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo to root out various Rwandan Hutu militias that had sought sanctuary in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
The Rwandan genocide saw Hutu militias and civilians alike murder vast numbers of members of the Tutsi ethnic minority: men, women and children, many of whom had been their neighbors before the conflict began.
—David McKenzie, CNN, 25 May 2023
Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering the Tutsi, with support from the army, police, and militias.
—Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
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“Hutu.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hutu. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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