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Tutsi
Tutsi or Watutsi , cattle-raising people of central Africa, particularly in Burundi and Rwanda ; they are also known as Watusi or Batusi. The original Tutsi homeland was probably in Ethiopia, and c.400 years ago they migrated south to around Lake Kivu. Here they established the native... Read more |
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Hutu
Hutu PRONUNCIATION:HOO-too LOCATION:Rwanda; Burundi POPULATION:Approximately 10 million LANGUAGE:Kinyarwanda; Kirundi; French; Swahili RELIGION:Christianity combined with traditional beliefs 1 • INTRODUCTION The word Hutuis the name for the majority of people who... Read more |
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Kigali
Kigali , city (1997 pop. 330,000), central Rwanda, capital of Rwanda. It is the country's main administrative and economic center. The city has an international airport and road access to all of the country's borders. Iron ore (cassiterite) is mined nearby, and the city built a smelting plant in the... Read more |
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Rwanda
Rwanda , officially Republic of Rwanda, republic (2005 est. pop. 8,441,000), 10,169 sq mi (26,338 sq km), E central Africa. It borders on Congo (Kinshasa) in the west, on Uganda in the north, on Tanzania in the east, and on Burundi in the south. Kigali is the capital and largest town. Land and... Read more |
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Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda-Urundi , former colonial territory, central Africa, now divided between the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi . The original inhabitants of the area were the Twa, a Pygmy people, who around AD 1000 were driven into the forests by the numerically superior Hutu, a Bantu-speaking... Read more |
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Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame 1957-, Rwandan political leader. Kagame was born into a Tutsi family that fled (1960) ethnic violence in Rwanda. Raised in Uganda, he became a member of Yoweri Museveni 's National Resistance Army, was active in the guerrilla war (1980-86) that brought Museveni to power in Uganda, and... Read more |
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Bujumbura
Bujumbura , city (1994 est. pop. 300,000), capital of Burundi and of Bujumbura prov., W Burundi, a port on Lake Tanganyika. Formerly known as Usumbura, it is Burundi's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. Manufactures include food products, cement and other... Read more |
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Kivu
Kivu , region, c.89,000 sq mi (230,510 sq km), E Congo (Kinshasa). It borders on Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Lake Tanganyika on the east. Kivu is divided into three provinces, Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, and Maniema. Coffee, cotton, rice, and palm oil are produced, and tin and some gold are mined. The... Read more |
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Laurent-Desire Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila , 1939-2001, Congolese political and rebel leader. He studied at universities in France and Tanzania. returning home in 1960. He supported Patrice Lumumba , established (1967) a Marxist party, and led a group of rebels that opposed Joseph Mobutu (later Mobutu... Read more |
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Butare
Butare, Rwanda Astrid Founded in 1927 as the prospective capital of Ruanda‐Urundi. It was previously named after the Swedish‐born Queen Astrid (1905–35), wife of the Belgian King Leopold III. The town was renamed in 1962 on Rwanda's independence, but the meaning of its... Read more |
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Not a twin: Burundi. (Hutu-Tutsi relations compared to Rwanda)
...ethnic mix (85% Hutu, 15% Tutsi) to that of neighbouring Rwanda, presage a repeat...Hutus and of Tutsis, many of them...against fellow-Tutsis. In some ways...Burundi and Rwanda have distinct...histories. In Rwanda the Hutu majority overthrew their Tutsi rulers in ... |
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Fighting Between Hutu, Tutsi Sowing Famine in Rwanda
...main ethnic groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu, lived in harmony and...former Belgian colonizers, Rwanda was a paradise, with...revolution brought the Hutu majority to power, and...Hutu were in power when Rwanda gained independence three... |
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RWANDA-HUMAN RIGHTS: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR HUTU AND TUTSI
...The return to Rwanda of membersof the...armed forces and Hutu militia has left bothHutu returnees and Tutsi survivors of the...upto one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus...to Zaire when the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front...with civilians. For Hutu civilians, the fall... |
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231 TUTSIS MASSACRED IN ATTACK IN RWANDA HUTU REBELS BLAMED IN RENEWAL OF...
...rebels raided a Tutsi refugee camp in...escape attacks by Hutu rebels, who were...rebels had left Rwanda en masse fearing...reprisals for the 1994 Hutu slaughter of a...million minority Tutsis. Authorities...than 1 million Hutu civilians who returned to Rwanda late last year. ... |
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Dutch judges convict Rwanda Hutu of killing Tutsis
A Hutu man was convicted...slaying of two Tutsi mothers and...children during Rwanda's 1994 genocide...hundreds of other Tutsis who had sought...ordered the two Tutsi mothers and...U.N.'s Rwanda war-crimes...to appeal. Hutu militias slaughtered... |
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The appeals trial began in Helsinki yesterday of a Rwandan described by...
...Helsinki yesterday of a Rwandan described by prosecutors as one of the most important leaders of the Hutu genocide of minority Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. Francois Bazaramba, 60, was convicted of genocide in June 2010 and sentenced to life in prison... |
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Too familiar: Rwanda. (Hutu militiamen massacre Tutsi refugees in Mudende...
...genocide. Hundreds of Hutu militiamen surged into a Tutsi settlement last month...Gisenyi in north-west Rwanda; their victims ethnic Tutsis from the Masisi region...the Mudende attack-by Hutu extremists. According...alone. Paul Kagame, Rwanda's vice-president... |
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Rwanda's perpetual war. (continuing civil war between Hutu farmers and Tutsi...
...stocky Hutu farmers - Rwanda's majority - drive...in October 1990, when Tutsi refugees, exiled in Uganda by Hutu persecution, organised...attack into northern Rwanda. Initially, the invasion...execution of 1,000 Tutsis, and the detention of...electorate is mainly Hutu. They ... |
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An everyday tale of Kigali folk The Archers are going to Rwanda. At least,...
...up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus...orchestrated by extremist Hutu politicians...lives sheltering Tutsi neighbours and...million Hutus from Rwanda into Zaire (now...from Rwanda's Tutsi-led government...to break up the Hutu "refugee" camps...these camps, Hutu ... |
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Rwanda says Congo still aiding Rwandan Hutu fighters implicated in slaughter...
...Dateline: UNITED NATIONS Rwanda will not withdraw its troops...stops supporting Rwandan Hutu fighters implicated in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsis, Rwanda's ambassador said Thursday...last month. The Rwandan Hutu soldiers fled to the eastern... |
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