Rather than two separate tribes, Hutu and Tutsi are different ethnic groups of the same society. The Tutsi migrated from the Horn of Africa in the area of Ethiopia to the Lake Victoria region of ...

Almost all the victims are members of the Tutsi (or Watusi) tribe, usually remembered for their great height--many Tutsi are seven feet tall. The people slaughtering the Tutsi are the Hutu, who ...

So asking if I am Hutu or Tutsi is irrelevant because it doesn’t explain my “origin” that you want to understand. Rwandans—regardless of being historically labeled Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa ...

At the time, the nation’s population consisted of three main groups: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa (Pygmy). The slain president had been a Hutu. Fearful a Tusti regime would take over, the Hutu ...

The ritual pays respects and condolences not only to the Tutsi people lost, but to the Hutu as well. The last time Gato saw the ritual was in 2005, before he left to come to the United States.

Long-standing tribal tensions between the country's two main tribes exploded after the assassination of Burundi's Hutu president by Tutsi extremists on Oct. 21, 1993. Tuhabonye and other members ...

"Beyond the Gates," which opens Friday, chronicles the first five days of the horrific 1994 Rwandan genocide in which extremists from the Hutus, the country's majority tribe, went on an ethnic ...

Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s dea… ...