Tutsi
Tutsi „Todesursache: Machete, in den Armen seiner Mutter“
Als Völkermord in Ruanda werden umfangreiche Gewalttaten in Ruanda bezeichnet, die am 6. April begannen und bis Mitte Juli andauerten. Sie kosteten circa bis Menschen das Leben, die niedrigsten Schätzungen gehen von. Alle noch im Land lebenden Tutsi-Politiker wurden ermordet. Das Hutu-Regime machte seither die Bedrohung durch die Tutsi-Rebellen für alle wesentlichen. Es war Afrikas Albtraum: ermordeten Hutu-Milizen binnen hundert Tagen Menschen, vor allem aus der Tutsi-Minderheit. Am 7. April begann in Ruanda der Völkermord an der Tutsi-Minderheit: Innerhalb weniger Wochen töteten radikale Hutu mehr als. Zehntausende Tutsi verließen das Land oder beteiligten sich an einem sporadisch aufflammenden Guerillakrieg, der mit Massakern auf beiden.
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BREAKING INTO MY HIGH SCHOOL! *Caught?* Wenn man von Ruanda spricht, kommt die Rede schnell auf den Hutu-Tutsi-Konflikt. Doch die beiden Gruppen sind mittlerweile so eng miteinander verbunden. Von einem Genozid. Weitere Bilder zeigten Flüchtlingsströme biblischen Ausmasses, eine ganze Nation auf der Flucht. Von Hutu war die Rede und von Tutsi und. Der Völkermord an den Tutsi hat eine lange Vorgeschichte, die schon zu Kolonialzeiten begann. Eingeführt wurde die Unterscheidung. Konfliktakteure. Der ethnische Konflikt zwischen Hutu und Tutsi ist uralt und bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Massaker Um die Konfliktanalyse beginnen zu. Die Kolonialmächte Belgien und Deutschland machten aus den Hutu und Tutsi verschiedene Ethnien, ursprünglich waren sie zwei soziale.
However, the peace did not last. The Hutu tried to gain power by force, and they were defeated.
When the colonial period ended, opposite sides controlled Rwanda and Burundi. The Hutu held power in Rwanda until The Tutsi still rule Burundi.
Hutu power in Rwanda ended in when Tutsi rebels overthrew the government. However, this Tutsi victory occurred at a great cost in human lives.
As many as one million people were killed. Their combined total area is about 20, square miles 54, square kilometers. This is about the combined size of the states of Maryland and New Jersey.
Tutsi also live in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo formerly Zaire. They live near the city of Bukavu in the Mulenge region.
Here they are known as the Banyamulenge. The combined population of Rwanda and Burundi was about 13 million in However, many refugees fled Rwanda that year.
In addition, many Rwandese Tutsi returned from Uganda after the Hutu army was defeated in It is called Kinyarwanda in Rwanda, and Kirundi in Burundi.
Both are dialects of the same language. Like other Bantu languages, both use nouns with prefixes. For example, the word Banyamulenge "Ba-nya-mulenge" can be divided into parts.
The prefix "banya" means "people"; "Mulenge" is the name of a region. The whole word means "people of Mulenge. Many Rwandese and Burundians speak French, the language of their former Belgian rulers.
French is used in school. Also, many people in both countries have French first names. Tutsi who have been refugees in Uganda may also speak English.
Personal names may be based on events, poetry, or beliefs. The name Ndagijimana means " God is my herder. Tutsi folklore includes poetry, proverbs, folk tales, riddles, and myths.
Some Tutsis used to know the names of their ancestors at least six generations back. Many believed they were descended from a mythical king named Gihanga.
One popular folk tale tells the story of Sebgugugu. He was a poor man who was helped by God. God performed miracles to provide food for him and his family.
However, each time Sebgugugu wanted more. Through his greed, Sebgugugu lost everything in the end.
Today most people in Rwanda and Burundi are Christians. However, some traditional beliefs survive. These include the belief in a distant creator called Imaana.
This god has the power to grant wealth and fertility. The king shares in this power. It can be seen in his sacred fire, royal drums, and rituals.
Spirits of dead relatives, called abazima , carry messages between Imaana and the human world. However, the abazima may bring bad luck to those who do not respect them.
People offer gifts to protect themselves from the abazima. They also try to learn the spirits' wishes by seeing fortune-tellers.
The Tutsis' traditional holidays were celebrated with dancing and sacred drumming. These holidays are no longer observed.
Hutu and Tutsi rites of passage are very similar. The first one, the naming ceremony, takes place seven days after a child's birth.
Marriage is made legal by payment of the bride wealth. It is paid by the groom's family to the bride's family because they are losing her labor.
There is no ritual other than marriage to mark the beginning of adulthood. Death is marked by prayers, speeches, and limits on many activities.
Close family members are supposed to avoid physical labor and sex after a death. When the mourning period ends, the family holds a ritual feast.
Social status is very important in both Rwanda and Burundi. Signs of status include a person's posture, body movements, and way of speaking.
Upper-class people are supposed to act with dignity and not show their emotions. In the past, most people had arranged marriages to someone of the same social class.
Today, Tutsi may choose the person they will marry. Group activities are more common than dating in couples. However, some young Tutsis in the cities practice Western-style dating and go out to nightclubs.
Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives. Around them were high hedges that served as fences.
Modern Tutsi build rectangular houses with Western-style building materials. These houses have corrugated iron or tile roofs.
In the past, marriage in Rwanda and Burundi was based on the relations between the two families. Today most Tutsis choose the person they will marry.
In the past, Tutsi men and women wore robes brought in from the African coast. A woman's costume included a white robe and white headbands.
Today Western-style clothing is usually worn. Women wear dresses and scarves made from the printed cloth popular in East Africa.
Milk, butter, and meat are the most highly valued foods. However, people will only kill a cow on a special occasion.
Goat meat and goat milk are also eaten. However, they are eaten secretly because it is against Tutsi customs.
Tutsi in rural areas consume milk products, bananas, and sorghum beer. Meals are arranged around work schedules. Alcoholic beverages are made from bananas and sorghum.
People drink them on special occasions. No more than half of Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi can read and write their native language.
A smaller number can read and write French. There are teacher training schools in Burundi. Both Rwanda and Burundi have at least one university.
Royal dancing and drumming groups performed for the kings of Rwanda and Burundi. For rituals, two dozen tall drums were placed around a central drum.
The drummers moved around the drums in a circle. Each one took a turn beating the central drum. This style of drumming is still practiced, and it has been recorded.
Singing, dancing, and drumming are important in rural life. People compose many kinds of songs — hunting songs, lullabies, and ibicuba songs praising cattle.
Cattle herding has always carried a higher status among the Tutsi than farming. In the past there was a special class of herders, called abashumba , who took care of the king's prize cattle inyambo.
A game called igisoro is popular with children and adults. It is played on a wooden board with holes for beads or stones.
Players line up their pieces in rows and capture as many of their opponents' pieces as they can. In other parts of Africa the game is known as mancala.
Traditional crafts of Rwanda and Burundi include basket weaving, pottery, woodworking, metal working, and jewelry making.
Since the early s, the peoples of Rwanda and Burundi have lived through some of the worst violence in African history.
The killings are usually called ethnic warfare between the Hutu and Tutsi. However, victims have often been killed for their political beliefs, not just their ethnic group.
New York : Cambridge University Press, Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi. Heritage Library of African Peoples. New York : Rosen Publishing Group, Internet Africa Ltd.
World Travel Guide. Since the late s, a group of Tutsi, who have their origin in the Great Lakes area of Africa Burundi and Rwanda , claim that this region was the home of a Hebraic community in ancient times, and claim a Jewish identity.
Their homeland, supposedly extending far beyond the regions where the Tutsi now reside, is called Havila by them, according to the name applied in Genesis to the legendary territory watered by the Pishon River.
The Tutsi claim to perpetuate either the pharaonic monotheism of the 18 th dynasty of Egypt or Moses' faith as transcribed in the Hebraic Torah.
The Hamitic-Semitic myth of the origins of these Tutsi, which was largely inspired by missionaries and colonists of the 19 th century, now appears to be strongly reinforced by the symbolic uses they make of Judaism.
Following their terrible suffering during the genocide of , these Tutsi have increasingly claimed a Jewish identity and describe their history as a microcosm of World Jewish history, evoking the common experience of persecution to give more weight to their Jewish identity claim.
The group is based in Belgium, where its president, Professor Yochanan Bwejeri, and the Havila Institute call upon Israel and the international community to condemn and take measures against the "antisemitic" violence in Africa towards the Tutsi ethnic group.
Parfitt, Tudor " Tutsi. Parfitt, Tudor "Tutsi. Tutsi gale. FOOD Milk, butter, and meat are the most highly valued foods traditionally.
WORK People of Tutsi background who cultivated the soil were often considered poor and could lose their status as nobles.
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Tuthill, Burnet Corwin. Tutev, Georgi. A game called igisoro is popular with children and adults. It is played on a wooden board with holes for beads or stones.
Players line up their pieces in rows and capture as many of their opponents' pieces as they can. In other parts of Africa the game is known as mancala.
Movie theaters in the capitals of Rwanda and Burundi show current European and American films. Traditional crafts of Rwanda and Burundi include basket weaving, pottery, woodworking, metal working, and jewelry making.
Since the early s, the peoples of Rwanda and Burundi have lived through some of the worst violence in African history.
The killings are usually called ethnic warfare between the Hutu and Tutsi. However, victims have often been killed for their political beliefs, not just their ethnic group.
Lemarchand, Rene. Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, Nyankanzi, Edward L.
Genocide: Rwanda and Burundi. Rochester, Vt. Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi. Heritage Library of African Peoples.
New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Internet Africa Ltd. World Travel Guide. Toggle navigation. The Tutsi have different greetings for morning, afternoon, and evening.
Also read article about Tutsi from Wikipedia. User Contributions: 1. I think it should mansion something about their ecomnomy and the Tutsi today Martin Kinyanjui Ngugi.
I am from Kenya and i like knowing much about the people of Africa. This site has helped me to know more about the people or Rwanda.
They are beautiful people, and despite the genocide, they work hard and may God bless them. I hope to visit Rwanda one day soon.
Thank you. Kelsey Bagley. I really apprecaite this, I knew nothing about these people until you enlightened me. Many thanks! Tusiime Esau.
Yeah, thanks for every task you rendered; its actually as u said political beliefs rather than ethnic warfare!
For years my grandfather told us about hid grandfather who had been captured by the slave traders and brought to America.
Since they were given new names we have no way of tracing them We do however, know that they were Watusi. I've been doing research trying to find information recently because my son wants to trace our tree back to our ancestor's entry to the US.
Thank you for this article. I have come to learn alot about Rwanda I took interest in the genocide and concidentally met the love of my love from Rwanda and now i can relate because I have been enlightened of what went on and how it is.
The people of Rwanda are beautiful people and am looking forward to visiting that country in December from the US I dont know what to expect but am excited.
Invader Tal. Thank you! This page was very helpful in my English Research project! Great article!!!!!
Was really helpful with my World Geography project. THanks a ton!!! Emani Norwood. Is there any information on the Hutus if so please e-mail it to me at my email address above.
T-wana Stanley. Thank you for publishing That enlightening article. I have always wanted to get a clear image who the tutsi were and why they were being Brutally killed.
A few films Are out giving you a reinactment Of what they suffered such as Hotel Rwanda and sometimes in April.
I was just wondering if anyone knows any good sites to get some good pictures I have a report due for english on monday and I haven't found any good pictures.
This site is really great too, it's helped me with this project so much. Thank you Kay. I just discovered that these people are apart my blood line by doing a DNA test through ancestry.
You really helped me to connect and get the information I needed. I really wish you had more photographs of the people, i like to compare bone structure and facial features to see a resemblance in me or my father and son with those of the tutsi.
Knowing where my people began really fascinates me and gives me a sense of peace just knowing a little about my background.
Thank you so much!! Very helpful information!! My teachers are using this to give us an Africa test!! I love my tribe so much.
So tutsi We are the Abashumba Lte's be proud of our heritage. In Uganda we have the Banyankole who are Abashumba like us.
Thanks, This website was extremely helpful in my World Cultures final on the Tutsi People and Culture, I hope that the rest of the people taking this class can find this website, great job!
Very informative. Our book club is reading "Our Lady of Kibeho" and the author is Tutsi. The story takes place in Rwanda so I wanted to know more about the area and its people.
You helped me get my history report done, so im happy. Good information. I need to know if there are any problems dealing with economy or anything eles thanks so much!
I am a Tanzanian and I know Tutsi people very good. The Gacaca court system faced many controversies and challenges; they were accused of being puppets of the RPF-dominated government.
On 18 June , the Gacaca court system was officially closed after facing criticism. The UN Tribunal tried high-level members of the government and armed forces, while Rwanda prosecuted lower-level leaders and local people.
Since the ICTR was established as an ad hoc international jurisdiction, [] the ICTR was scheduled to close by the end of , [] after it would complete trials by and appeals by or Initially, the U.
Security Council established the ICTR in with an original mandate of four years without a fixed deadline and set on addressing the crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide.
With the announcement of its closing, there was a concern over how residual issues would be handled, because "The nature of criminal judicial work [ Article 38 of the Constitution of Rwanda guarantees "the freedom of expression and freedom of access to information where it does not prejudice public order, good morals, the protection of the youth and children, the right of every citizen to honour and dignity and protection of personal and family privacy.
Under these exceptions, longtime Rwandan president, Paul Kagame , asserted that any acknowledgment of the separate people was detrimental to the unification of post-Genocide Rwanda and has created numerous laws to prevent Rwandans from promoting a "genocide ideology" and "divisionism.
Article 34 of the Rwandan constitution states that "freedom of the press and freedom of information are recognized and guaranteed by the state"; however, the constitution does not in practice prevent media restrictions.
Kagame proposed that these laws were necessary for retaining national unity and protecting against future genocide.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ , the government threatens journalists who investigate or criticize the government.
The CPJ proposed that these threats and the possible jail sentences cause journalists to self censor, even beyond what would normally be censored by the government.
Article 34, along with the bans on speech that includes genocide ideology and divisionism, has commonly been used as a method for revoking journalists licenses.
In response to the documentary, the Rwandan government shut down BBC in the local to BBC promoting a "revisionist" position on the genocide in a documentary.
While before the genocide, Rwandan history textbooks would acknowledge and highlight differences between Tutsi and Hutu people, today, the only government approved Rwandan history textbook stresses the Rwandans as one people and virtually ignore the ethnic differences and pre-genocide conflicts.
Since taking office, Kagame has implemented information and media controls to prevent the spread of dissent, including threatening and imprisoning journalists and political opponents for breaking his rules or disrespecting his government and military.
His election opponent, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza , served 8 years of a year prison sentence for "conspiracy against the country through terrorism and war" and " genocide denial ".
After international backlash, this policy was never enacted. The genocide had lasting and profound effects on Rwanda and neighboring countries.
The pervasive use of rape as a weapon of war caused a spike in HIV infection, including babies born to mothers infected during rapes.
Due to the wholesale slaughter of both men and women, many households were headed by widows or totally orphaned children. Today, Rwanda has two public holidays which mourn the genocide.
The national mourning period begins with Kwibuka Remembrance , the national commemoration, on 7 April and it concludes with Liberation Day on 4 July.
The week following 7 April is an official week of mourning, known as Icyunamo. As a result of the genocide, nations collaborated to establish the International Criminal Court in order to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity , and war crimes.
The report on the living conditions of survivors conducted by the Ministry in charge of Social Affairs in Rwanda reported the following situation of survivors: [].
There are a number of organizations representing and supporting these survivors of the genocide. Another firsthand account of the Rwandan genocide is offered by Dr.
Courtemanche's book was made into a movie, A Sunday in Kigali This same story is related in Rusesabagina's autobiography An Ordinary Man The independent documentary film Earth Made of Glass which addresses the personal and political costs of the genocide, focusing on Rwandan President Paul Kagame and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
In , Alison Des Forges wrote that eleven years after the genocide, films for popular audiences on the subject greatly increased the "widespread realization of the horror that had taken the lives of more than half a million Tutsi".
Among songs, "Rwanda" by the punk-ska band Rancid from the album Rancid is about the Rwandan genocide. So is the punk-ska band Rx Bandits ' song "In All Rwanda's Glory", on their album Progress , which they say contains "overly political lyrics".
Brooke Fraser wrote the song " Albertine " on her album Albertine about an eponymous orphan from the genocide whom Fraser met one time in Rwanda in In , the Christian metalcore band Fit for a King explained that a song titled "Stacking Bodies", on their newest album, is about the Rwandan genocide.
Former journalist and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is interviewed about the Rwandan genocide in Watchers of the Sky , a documentary by Edet Belzberg about genocide throughout history and its eventual inclusion in international law.
Juliane Okot Bitek's book of poetry, Days , University of Alberta Press uses the Rwandan genocide as a framework within which to explore "the senseless loss of life and of innocence" as well as "her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin " [] Juliane Okot Bitek is the daughter of Ugandan poet Okot p'Bitek.
These are members of the Hutu majority who risked their lives to shield and protect Tutsis. Inspired by the events of the genocide, international involvements and subsequent prosecution of war criminals, Hugo Blick wrote and directed the fictional television drama series Black Earth Rising.
The Ugandan producer and director Richard Mulindwa's film 94 Terror , set during the genocide, depicts an unlikely friendship between a Hutu and a Tutsi, and their escape to Uganda across the River Kagera border.
Since the end of the genocide there have been frequent charges of revisionism. That word could be massacre or terror or another word, depending on the event.
Stam of Dartmouth College argued that the anti-Tutsi genocide constituted only part of the slaughter of spring and summer ; that the RPF was "clearly responsible" for another major portion of the killings; that the victims were "fairly evenly distributed between Tutsi and Hutu"; that the majority of the dead were Hutu, rather than Tutsi; and that, "among other things, it appears that there simply weren't enough Tutsi in Rwanda at the time to account for all the reported deaths".
It aroused considerable controversy. Based on interviews with RPF defectors and top-secret documents that were leaked from the ICTR, Rever argued that a second genocide against Hutus had in fact been committed by the RPF in as well as in the following years.
Under the Rwandan constitution, "revisionism, negationism and trivialisation of genocide" are criminal offences. According to Amnesty International, of the individuals convicted of "genocide revisionism and other related crimes" in , five were sentenced to life imprisonment, five were sentenced to more than 20 years in jail, 99 were sentenced to 10—20 years in jail, received a custodial sentence of 5—10 years, and the remaining received jail terms of less than five years.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Human skulls at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial. Human skulls at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre.
Initial events Chronology Gikondo massacre Nyarubuye massacre. Parties responsible. People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal.
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See also: List of films about the Rwandan genocide and Bibliography of the Rwandan genocide.
A great deal of effort has been extended to make sure the focus stays exclusively on the Francophone Tutsi victims and their Hutu executioners.
But of the estimated one million people killed, between , and , of them were Tutsi, according to best estimates.
What about the other , to , people? Who is responsible for their deaths? See also: Rwandan genocide denial.
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Tutsi in rural areas consume milk products, bananas, and sorghum beer. Meals are arranged around work schedules. Alcoholic beverages are made from bananas and sorghum.
People drink them on special occasions. No more than half of Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi can read and write their native language. A smaller number can read and write French.
There are teacher training schools in Burundi. Both Rwanda and Burundi have at least one university. Royal dancing and drumming groups performed for the kings of Rwanda and Burundi.
For rituals, two dozen tall drums were placed around a central drum. The drummers moved around the drums in a circle.
Each one took a turn beating the central drum. This style of drumming is still practiced, and it has been recorded.
Singing, dancing, and drumming are important in rural life. People compose many kinds of songs—hunting songs, lullabies, and ibicuba songs praising cattle.
Cattle herding has always carried a higher status among the Tutsi than farming. In the past there was a special class of herders, called abashumba , who took care of the king's prize cattle inyambo.
A game called igisoro is popular with children and adults. It is played on a wooden board with holes for beads or stones. Players line up their pieces in rows and capture as many of their opponents' pieces as they can.
In other parts of Africa the game is known as mancala. Movie theaters in the capitals of Rwanda and Burundi show current European and American films.
Traditional crafts of Rwanda and Burundi include basket weaving, pottery, woodworking, metal working, and jewelry making. Since the early s, the peoples of Rwanda and Burundi have lived through some of the worst violence in African history.
The killings are usually called ethnic warfare between the Hutu and Tutsi. However, victims have often been killed for their political beliefs, not just their ethnic group.
Lemarchand, Rene. Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, Nyankanzi, Edward L.
Genocide: Rwanda and Burundi. Rochester, Vt. Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi. Heritage Library of African Peoples.
New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Internet Africa Ltd. World Travel Guide. Toggle navigation. The Tutsi have different greetings for morning, afternoon, and evening.
Also read article about Tutsi from Wikipedia. User Contributions: 1. I think it should mansion something about their ecomnomy and the Tutsi today Martin Kinyanjui Ngugi.
I am from Kenya and i like knowing much about the people of Africa. This site has helped me to know more about the people or Rwanda.
They are beautiful people, and despite the genocide, they work hard and may God bless them. I hope to visit Rwanda one day soon. Thank you.
Kelsey Bagley. I really apprecaite this, I knew nothing about these people until you enlightened me.
Many thanks! Tusiime Esau. Yeah, thanks for every task you rendered; its actually as u said political beliefs rather than ethnic warfare!
For years my grandfather told us about hid grandfather who had been captured by the slave traders and brought to America.
Since they were given new names we have no way of tracing them We do however, know that they were Watusi. I've been doing research trying to find information recently because my son wants to trace our tree back to our ancestor's entry to the US.
Thank you for this article. I have come to learn alot about Rwanda I took interest in the genocide and concidentally met the love of my love from Rwanda and now i can relate because I have been enlightened of what went on and how it is.
The people of Rwanda are beautiful people and am looking forward to visiting that country in December from the US I dont know what to expect but am excited.
Invader Tal. Thank you! This page was very helpful in my English Research project! Great article!!!!! Was really helpful with my World Geography project.
THanks a ton!!! Emani Norwood. Is there any information on the Hutus if so please e-mail it to me at my email address above.
T-wana Stanley. Thank you for publishing That enlightening article. I have always wanted to get a clear image who the tutsi were and why they were being Brutally killed.
A few films Are out giving you a reinactment Of what they suffered such as Hotel Rwanda and sometimes in April.
I was just wondering if anyone knows any good sites to get some good pictures I have a report due for english on monday and I haven't found any good pictures.
This site is really great too, it's helped me with this project so much. Thank you Kay. I just discovered that these people are apart my blood line by doing a DNA test through ancestry.
Such discriminatory policies engendered resentment. When the Belgians took over, they believed it could be better governed if they continued to identify the different populations.
In the s, they required people to identify with a particular ethnic group and classified them accordingly in censuses.
In , Belgium reversed its stance and allowed the majority Hutu to assume control of the government through universal elections after independence.
This partly reflected internal Belgian domestic politics, in which the discrimination against the Hutu majority came to be regarded as similar to oppression within Belgium stemming from the Flemish-Walloon conflict, and the democratization and empowerment of the Hutu was seen as a just response to the Tutsi domination.
Belgian policies wavered and flip-flopped considerably during this period leading up to independence of Burundi and Rwanda.
The Hutu majority in Rwanda had revolted against the Tutsi and was able to take power. Tutsis fled and created exile communities outside Rwanda in Uganda and Tanzania.
Since Burundi's independence, more extremist Tutsi came to power and oppressed the Hutus, especially those who were educated.
In , Burundi's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye , a Hutu, was assassinated by Tutsi officers, as was the person entitled to succeed him under the constitution.
Traditionally, the Tutsi had held more economic power and controlled the military. A similar pattern of events took place in Rwanda, but there the Hutu came to power in They in turn often oppressed the Tutsi, who fled the country.
After the anti-Tutsi violence around —, Tutsis fled in large numbers. These exile Tutsi communities gave rise to Tutsi rebel movements.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front , mostly made up of exiled Tutsi living primarily in Uganda, attacked Rwanda in with the intention of liberating Rwanda.
Attempts at peace culminated in the Arusha Accords. The agreement broke down after the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian Presidents, triggering a resumption of hostilities and the start of the Genocide against the Tutsi of , in which the Hutu then in power killed an estimated ,—1,, people, largely of Tutsi origin.
Tutsis speak Rwanda-Rundi as their native language. Rwanda-Rundi is subdivided into the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi dialects, which have been standardized as official languages of Burundi and Rwanda.
In the Rwanda territory, from the 15th century until , the Tutsi were ruled by a king the mwami. Belgium abolished the monarchy, following the national referendum that led to independence.
By contrast, in the northwestern part of the country predominantly Hutu , large regional landholders shared power, similar to Buganda society in what is now Uganda.
Under their holy king, Tutsi culture traditionally revolved around administering justice and government. They were the only proprietors of cattle , and sustained themselves on their own products.
Additionally, their lifestyle afforded them a lot of leisure time, which they spent cultivating the high arts of poetry, weaving and music.
Due to the Tutsi's status as a dominant minority vis-a-vis the Hutu farmers and the other local inhabitants, this relationship has been likened to that between lords and serfs in feudal Europe.
According to Fage , the Tutsi are serologically related to Bantu and Nilotic populations. This in turn rules out a possible Cushitic origin for the founding Tutsi-Hima ruling class in the lacustrine kingdoms.
However, the royal burial customs of the latter kingdoms are quite similar to those practiced by the former Cushitic Sidama states in the southern Gibe region of Ethiopia.
By contrast, Bantu populations to the north of the Tutsi-Hima in Kenya were until modern times essentially without a king, while there were a number of Bantu kingdoms to the south of the Tutsi-Hima in Tanzania, all of which shared the Tutsi-Hima's chieftaincy pattern.
Since the Cushitic Sidama kingdoms interacted with Nilotic groups, Fage thus proposes that the Tutsi may have descended from one such migrating Nilotic population.
The Tutsis' Nilotic ancestors would thereby in earlier times have served as cultural intermediaries, adopting some monarchical traditions from adjacent Cushitic kingdoms and subsequently taking those borrowed customs south with them when they first settled amongst Bantu autochthones in the Great Lakes area.
However, little difference can be ascertained between the cultures today of the Tutsi and Hutu; both groups speak the same Bantu language.
The rate of intermarriage between the two groups was traditionally very high, and relations were amicable until the 20th century.
Many scholars have concluded that the determination of Tutsi was and is mainly an expression of class or caste, rather than ethnicity.
As noted above, DNA studies show clearly that the peoples are more closely related to each other than to faraway groups. There is the Banyamulenge , who live in the southern tip of South Kivu.
They are descendants of migrating Rwandan, Burundian and Tanzanian pastoralists. These are not Banyamulenge. In Rwanda nobody was interested.
Attempts were later made to rectify this passivity. In , the ICTR began indicting and trying a number of higher-ranking people for their role in the Rwandan genocide; the process was made more difficult because the whereabouts of many suspects were unknown.
The trials continued over the next decade and a half, including the conviction of three former senior Rwandan defense and military officials for organizing the genocide.
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