What is "hutu"

Usage examples of "hutu".

Then Hutu pulled saplings down to his height, soaring with them as they snapped upward.

As soon as she joined Hutu, he swung a tree so high that he dragged Pare back into the light.

A plane crash killing the Rwandan president and the president of Burundi sparked the beginning of a horrendous slaughter inflicted by leaders of the majority Hutu on the Tutsis and their Hutu sympathizers.

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

The last speaker was a dignified woman who said her family had been identified to the rampaging killers as Tutsis by Hutu neighbors whose children had played with hers for years.

In modern east-central Africa, envy between Hutu and Tutsi led to some of the worst butchery ever seen.

Here, the African men noticed her with particular clarity because she was the daughter of a general, a Hutu, and half sister to Peter Ntarinada, who was a big man in his own right.

Then the Hutu strategy backfired, and by August the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front was in power in Rwanda, and somewhere between half a million and a million Hutus had become refugees in other countries, mainly Zaire.