Member of a people living in Rwanda and Burundi

Usage examples of tutsi.

President Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, and Vice President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, were trying to put the country back together.

When the violence began, Nzabakaza unlocked their cells, armed them with spears and machetes and clubs and whatever firearms he could find, and pointed them at Tutsi homes.

Shortly after Kigali fell to the Hutu insurgents, Butare was targeted because it had been a primarily Tutsi town.

The problem was, he explained, that Tutsi, Inel's youngest son was playing for the opposition side hoping to regain his place in the senior team after recovering from an injury.

But the primary motivation of my troops is patriotism, which cannot help but be tinged with Tutsi tribalism.