An estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days. Some moderate Hutu who tried to protect members of the Tutsi minority were also targeted.

The Tutsi ethnic group was the main target of the Hutu extremists who carried out the genocide, but members of a smaller group, the Twa, were killed in greater proportion.

Then they slaughtered her.Francois Sekayuku, 32, a Tutsi farmer in mud-spattered trousers, numbly told the story of his wife’s death. ... Rwandan killing has bloody roots in Hutu-Tutsi ...

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 ...

The area now known as Burundi was originally inhabited by the Twa, a Pygmy people, but today the Twa make up only 1% of the population. The rest is split among Hutu (85%) and Tutsi (14%), who for ...

By and large, the Hutu and the Tutsi are physically indistinct from one another. They share a common language. ... Tutsi or Twa, and that those identified as Tutsi were doomed to death.

I had read that, after the genocide, the RPF—now the ruling political party in Rwanda—officially eradicated the categories of Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa on the grounds that they were false ...

A Fort Sill basic combat trainee who was born a couple years after the infamous 1994 genocide of Tutsi people in Rwanda, reflected on his country's past, ... Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa.

Nyirabashyitsi, 54, recalled the helpless Tutsis she saw at roadblocks not far from the present reconciliation village, people she knew faced imminent death when the Hutu soldiers and militiamen ...