Tutsi

[ toot-see ]

noun

, plural Tut·sis, (especially collectively) Tut·si.

1. a member of a very tall, slender, cattle-raising people of Rwanda and Burundi.

Tutsi

/ ˈtuːtsɪ /

noun

1. a member of a people of Rwanda and Burundi, probably a Nilotic people

Example Sentences

Angélique Uwamahoro, who was 13 during the genocide, said she saw Rwamucyo at a road block in the town of Butare and heard him encouraging militiamen to kill Tutsi people, according to the Associated Press.

From BBC

Mr Kagame's life has been shaped by the conflict between Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups.

From BBC

But, barely two years old, he became a refugee in neighbouring Uganda, fleeing the persecution and pogroms of the late 1950s with his family and thousands of others from the minority Tutsi population.

From BBC

These killings came after Belgian colonisers switched which ethnic group they backed, to favour an emerging ruling elite from the majority Hutu ethnic group, some of whom had suffered ill-treatment under the Tutsi monarchy.

From BBC

He then led his mainly Tutsi rebel army which marched into Rwanda in 1990.

From BBC