B
B Second letter of the Roman-based
w European alphabet, almost always representing a voiced bilabial plosive consonant or stop. It is probably derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a house (
c.3000 bc), which became part of the Semitic alphabet about 1500 years later as the letter
beth. From there it was taken to Greece (
c.600 bc) to become
beta, the forerunner of the Roman and thus the modern B.
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Tutsis Under Attack From Hutu Refugee Camps in Zaire
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/2/1994; 700+ words
; ...few thousand ethnic Tutsi refugees who fled...their people. The Tutsis they are now being...occasions, he says, Tutsis who have ventured...several more injured. TUTSI REFUGEE: [through...asked if they are Tutsi or Hutu. These boys said that `We are Tutsis,' and then these...
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Tutsis Fear Transfer Of Foreign Troops In Rwandan Safe Zone
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/18/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...exterminate Rwanda's Tutsi population. The...Cross helped 3,000 Tutsis from the stadium...of protecting the Tutsis, and thousands more...Surrounding the Tutsi enclave in the protection...will be killed by Tutsis exacting revenge...But even though the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic...
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Tutsi Rebels Still Eyed With Unease; Some East Zairians Harbor Resentment
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/14/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...region toward the Tutsis who form the core...restiveness about Tutsi guerrillas is part...leaders are based, Tutsi prominence in the...already existed because Tutsis, a minority among...some, "Zairian Tutsi" is a contradiction in terms. These Tutsis are referred to in...
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Tutsi Still Seen as Outsiders in Congo
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 8/18/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...he is a Congolese Tutsi. Tutsis have lived in eastern...tellingly there's not a Tutsi among them. This...surprising because many Tutsis used to live in this...reintegrate the Congolese Tutsis back into Congo will...government. The main Tutsi candidate for president...
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TUTSI ARMY AIMS TO MAKE A MINORITY LOOK LIKE MAJORITY AFTER TAKEOVER, THE HOPE IS THAT BURUNDI'S HUTUS WON'T NOTICE THEIR OWN STRENGTH.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/27/1996; 700+ words
; ...Think of it as the Tutsi Extermination Deterrent...systematic genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus from...say it is at least 85% Tutsi, with the remainder...mixed unit of Hutu and Tutsi soldiers protected the...the past, Burundi's Tutsis and their army face a...
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 "Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)")
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Returning Tutsis Help Rebuild Rwanda; Business Skills Learned in Exile.
Newspaper article from: Washington Times (Washington, D.C.); 4/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...member of the minority Tutsi tribe who spent his first...Like many returning Tutsis, Mr. Rugangazi has...asset than produce, Tutsis tended to be richer and...power, Belgium promoted Tutsis, but switched sides...independence in 1959. Now, Tutsi returnees are the most...
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Returning Tutsis help rebuild Rwanda; Business skills learned in exile.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...member of the minority Tutsi tribe who spent his first...Like many returning Tutsis, Mr. Rugangazi has...asset than produce, Tutsis tended to be richer and...power, Belgium promoted Tutsis, but switched sides...independence in 1959. Now, Tutsi returnees are the most...
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Tutsi Massacre May Re-Ignite Conflict
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...soldiers and Congolese Tutsi militiamen were hiding...Hutus or minority Tutsis. While Tutsis are...people, most of them Tutsis. Tutsi rebels stopped the...drive the Congolese Tutsis from their homes...2003. The Congolese Tutsi refugees now in Burundi...
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Congo Tutsis
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 9/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...year, is led by Tutsis. There have been Tutsi in Congo for generations...been carried out by Tutsis of Rwandan origin. The hatred of the Tutsi taking part in the...refer to Congo's Tutsis, even those who...law declared that Tutsi had to prove their...
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Kinshasa's Tutsis implicated by ethnicity
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/11/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...broadcast that Rwandan Tutsi soldiers allied to...realize that the Tutsis are also guilty of...the bodies of three Tutsi soldiers were found...neighborhood. Since then, Tutsis have disappeared...witchhunt for ethnic Tutsis in Kinshasa, he...ethnicity. ``I'm a Tutsi so they think I ...
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Tutsi
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...French first names. Tutsi who have been refugees...x2022; FOLKLORE Tutsi folklore includes poetry...riddles, and myths. Some Tutsis used to know the names...Christian holidays. The Tutsis' traditional holidays...RITES OF PASSAGE Hutu and Tutsi rites of passage are...
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Rwanda
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...which thousands of Tutsis were massacred and...signalled the end of the Tutsi monarchy. Elections...cattle farming by Tutsis, arable farming...against century-long Tutsi domination. This...Hutus were killed by Tutsis, mostly belonging...Arusha, whereupon Tutsi and Hutu ...
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Habyarimana, Juvenal 1937–1994
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...was threatened by Tutsi-dominated rebel...Habyarimana seek to include Tutsis as significant participants...x201D; against the Tutsis of Rwanda and any...sympathetic to the Tutsi agenda. The Hutu...rebellion against the Tutsi king, Kigeri V...large numbers of Tutsis were killed or ...
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Burundi
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...had been dominated by Tutsis. However, a few months...Uprona) party, a largely Tutsi party, already was withdrawing...agreeable to Buyoya's Tutsi-led government and...camps" in Burundi. The Tutsi-led government portrayed...further ethnic violence by Tutsis seeking vengeance for...
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Hutu
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the other peoples of these countries, the Tutsi and the Twa. All three groups speak the...18). They favored the upper-class Tutsi. The Belgians who followed the Germans also favored the Tutsi at first. In the 1950s, however, they...
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