How to pronounce “hutu” in English

He was Hutu.

So the Hutu children wouldn't go to those schools.

And for the Hutu government that was in power then, they told them that the country-- Habyarimana, the president, in his speech,

Tutsis and Hutus and Twa.

So the Hutus have this long history of feeling dehumanized, disenfranchised.

And the Hutus, they're the ones.

So when the Hutus got in power, they were already angry at the Tutsis that they are not from there, and they are having everything, so they

And there were other Hutus who were going in jail.

And there were moderate Hutus.

bringing together the Hutus and the Tutsis and the people from the Congo and Uganda, and people from Belgium and France

And I'm saying communities because Hutu and Tutsi are not exactly ethnic identities.

They can watch propaganda videos of the Hutu hardline regimes before 1994.

A terrible slaughter of the mostly ethnic Hutus, Tutsis killed by Hutus.

twin to Rwanda and um same hutus and tosis and

And I can't remember if it was on the Hutu or Tutsi side, but the other side came into his house.

The population at the time was about 84% Hutu, about 15% Tutsi, and about 1% of indigenous Twa people.

And this created a lot of conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi communities.

And after that, the Hutu extremist government came to power in the First and Second Republic and started to persecute the Tutsi population between 1959

at that time, majority Hutus.

And they started spreading all the messages to tell the Hutus, our neighbors, to start killing.

And of course, many Hutus, extremist Hutus, were carrying out the genocide.

What or who determined who was a Tutsi and who was a Hutu?

And he was Hutu as well.

So this six-week period, these Hutu groups managed to rampage across the country and kill, by hand, somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million people.

Other Rwandans, those of the majority Hutu group, had fled, afraid the RPF would kill them in revenge for the slaughter of Tutsis.

Well, most of the population is Hutu, so that makes sense.

And why do the Hutu want to obliterate the Tutsis?

He's emphatic about this being the common view and common knowledge among all Hutu.

But when they did kill the king, the Hutus took over.

Because here, we have two groups, the Hutu and Tutsi.

That ID card, so what they had to do if you are Tutsi or Hutu or Twa, they had to mention where you are.

In my country, you have two ethnic groups, Hutu and Tutsi.

The government, the military, the Hutu government, the XFAR-- we used to call them the XFAR-- had started fighting with the RPF.

and put them in small centers and guard them, then the Hutu government would throw grenades on those places.

And the story goes that-- the history goes that the Belgian colonial powers helped construct these identities-- Hutu, the majority, Tutsi

But we have about 1 million genocide victims, Tutsi and moderate Hutu massacred in 1994.

But this drum group came about after the genocide, with Hutu and Tutsi women coming together of all different ages, of different backgrounds,

And when the genocide started and the extremists launched the campaign to exterminate the Tutsis and moderate Hutu, her family was targeted.

The other question is a very big question in Rwanda and Burundi both where both Hutu and Tutsi groups have they experienced genocide.

now, the Rwandan government is trying to help the remaining Hutus and the remaining Tutsis work together to rebuild the country as neighbors.

The Tutsis were raised up by the European colonials, and the Hutus were pushed down.

So the way the propagandas were on the radios, they told the young Hutus, the civil killers, that it's work.

So the Tutsis were the elite class, and the Hutus were the middle class.

But because Tutsis didn't want to go through with the whole thing they wanted to do with them, so they had now to go on Hutu.

So, in Rwanda, where there was also a horrific genocide in the late 1990s, when 800,000 Tutsis were murdered by their Hutu

We were more than almost 12 children in the house because, before the genocide, the Hutu government used to kill or put in jail the Tutsis who were young

The argument being that, at the time the Tutsis were slaughtered they weren't deemed to be equal to the Hutu extremists, but rather inferior.

In 1994, on the 6th of April, that Hutu hardliner president, Habyarimana, his plane

I think that as we have found out and I didn't know this for years, because it's not something you talk about that most of the children in the projects are Hutu.