How to pronounce“tutsi”in English

Tutsis and Hutus and Twa.

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

they favored Tutsi in the beginning.

70% of the Tutsi population was killed.

--to erase the Tutsi race from the planet.

every last Tutsi out.

not know that the Tutsi were human beings, because if they had thought about that, they wouldn't have killed them.

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.

And they started persecuting Tutsis.

Because homes of many Tutsis in our neighborhoods and hills were being burnt down, so every home.

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

And the Tutsis who stayed in the country lived in fear.

We had Tutsis who fled Rwanda, the ones I explained, in the 1950s.

So when the Tutsis tried to come in 1990, they killed a lot of Tutsis inside the country.

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

led to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

I knew that being a Tutsi in the country was not easy.

So that's where we heard every Tutsi must be killed, even the young.

Because one of the anti-Tutsi propaganda used against, especially, Tutsi women was they want to see how Tutsi women look like.

And it was not easy for any Tutsi women to escape that.

because someone said that they're Tutsi, or an ideology, of course, in the practice.

In order to get rid of the Tutsi race.

And some of the leaders are Tutsi.

That's why we had many Tutsis who left the country and lived abroad for many years.

Going out there and to kill Tutsis, it's a job.

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

Samantha's research explores the stories of survivors of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and how their experiences affect their current communities.

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

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

Those who had been killed here were almost all from the Tutsi ethnic group, like the rebel soldiers with me.

Listen to Anne, a Tutsi survivor, captured, hiding in the bush as Hutu used dogs to ferret

They had to create this whole thing of Tutsis are not supposed to be part of the society, so are enemies of the country.

Because a lot of people have allowed themselves to feel like Tutsis are not supposed to belong in the country because of this discrimination language

how is this different from the hutus and the tutsis

a six-month propaganda campaign on radio calling the tutsis cockroaches and dogs

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

the minority, and also had put Tutsi in power as indirect rulers during Belgian colonization.

So again, they favored the Tutsi, who basically they gave a lot of positions to you in government and in education.

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

"Gary was sickened to come across charred piles of bodies in a church where Tutsi had expected to find sanctuary.

It was also a well-planned genocide because they want to exterminate the minority Tutsis.

Of course, like many other Tutsis, we had to flee our home.

So in our culture, children of Tutsis drink milk in the morning, and for dinner, for lunch, everything.

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.

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

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

And on April 7, 1994, a genocide against the Tutsi started, and it will go on for a period of 100 days,

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.