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  2. Tutsi - Wikipedia

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    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. [28] A traditional Tutsi basket. According to Fage (2013), the Tutsi are serologically related to Bantu and Nilotic populations.

  3. List of Tutsis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Category:Tutsi people - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Ethnic groups in Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    The modern conception of Tutsi and Hutu as distinct ethnic groups in no way reflects the pre-colonial relationship between them. Tutsi and Hutu were simply groups occupying different places in the Rwandan social hierarchy, the division between which was exacerbated by slight differences in appearance propagated by occupation and pedigree.

  6. France and the Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia

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    France actively supported the Hutu-led government of Juvénal Habyarimana against the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front, which since 1990 had been engaged in a conflict intended to restore the rights of Rwandan Tutsis both within Rwanda and exiled in neighboring countries following over four decades of anti-Tutsi violence. France provided ...

  7. Rwandan genocide - Wikipedia

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    The assassination sparked the Burundi Civil War between Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi and the Burundi genocide, with 50,000 to 100,000 people killed in the first year of war. [ 105 ] [ 106 ] The assassination caused shockwaves, reinforcing the notion among Hutus that the Tutsi were their enemy and could not be trusted. [ 107 ]

  8. Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre - Wikipedia

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    The Nyamata Genocide Memorial is a national memorial and World Heritage Site in Rwanda commemorating the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group. It is based around a former church in the town of Nyamata, roughly 30 km (19 mi) south of the capital of Kigali, where thousands of Tutsi were killed. The remains of 50,000 people are ...

  9. Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre - Wikipedia

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    Only 34 people are thought to have survived the massacre in Murambi. [2] The memorial was founded on 21 April 1995. The site contains 50,000 graves. [2] The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people killed in Gikongoro Province in 1994. [5]