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The Tutsi aristocracy or elite was distinguished from Tutsi commoners. When the Belgian colonists conducted censuses, they wanted to identify the people throughout Rwanda-Burundi according to a simple classification scheme.
The origins of the Hutu, Tutsi and Twa peoples is a major issue of controversy in the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the Great Lakes region of Africa.The relationship among the three modern populations is thus, in many ways, derived from the perceived origins and claim to "Rwandan-ness".
Sonia Rolland, actress, mother tutsi, father French – born 1981; Stromae, Belgian musician, rapper and singer-songwriter. Benjamin Sehene, Rwandian author, lives in Paris – born 1959 [16] [17] Immaculée Ilibagiza, Rwandan American author and Rwandan Genocide survivor. Scholastique Mukasonga, writer, author of Our Lady of the Nile [18]
The largest ethnic groups in Rwanda are the Hutus, which make up about 85% of Rwanda's population; the Tutsis, which are 14%; and the Twa, which are around 1%. [1] Starting with the Tutsi feudal monarchy rule of the 10th century, the Hutus were a subjugated social group.
While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people were killed, most scholarly estimates suggest between 500,000 and 662,000 Tutsi died. [5] [6] The genocide was marked by extreme violence, with victims often murdered by neighbors, and widespread sexual violence, with between 250,000 and 500,000 women raped. [7] [3]
Additionally, his rule started a chain of Tutsi-Bahima rule that was more anti-monarchy, and would continue until the 1990s. [2] Ethnic violence peaked in 1972 when 100,000 people, mainly Hutu, were killed by the Tutsi regime in the Ikiza, the first of what is known as the Burundian genocides. [5]
English: This category is for individual people from the Tutsi ethnic group. Pages in category "Tutsi people" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
A Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, which started a civil war against Rwanda's Hutu government in 1990. A peace agreement was signed, but violence erupted again, culminating in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when Hutu extremists killed [ 24 ] an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis.