How to Use Tutsi in a Sentence

Tutsi

noun
  • Enraged, gangs of Hutu extremists began killing Tutsi, backed by the army and police.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2024-04-06
  • His family with Tatiana is mixed: Hutu and Tutsi, all jumbled up.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2024-07-29
  • Feeling compelled to protect other Tutsi, his hotel becomes a safe haven for those fleeing the genocide.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 2024-04-05
  • The Hutu were doing that about the Tutsi, the Nazis obviously were doing it about the Jews, and so forth.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2023-11-16
  • Then came the Tutsi genocide of 1994, when the park buckled further under the strain of refugees seeking food and wood for shelter.
    — Noo Saro-Wiwa, Condé Nast Traveler, 2023-10-13
  • Leaders in the south, which had a large Tutsi population, initially resisted, but were either killed or forced to comply.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 2024-04-21
  • From the beginning of its time in the region, the colonial power favored members of the Tutsi tribe over those of the more numerous Hutus.
    — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-04-06
  • The dance’s name comes from an alternate name for the Tutsi group native to Rwanda, which performs elaborate dances, while the dance itself evolved from the twist.
    — Elie Levine, New York Times, 2025-01-09
  • Then, government soldiers from a nearby military barracks began to burn Tutsi houses.
    — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 2024-05-13
  • In Rwanda, ethnic Hutus impregnated Tutsi women in an attempt to erase the Tutsi ethnicity.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 2022-05-08
  • Rwanda has denied supporting the ethnic Tutsi militia, which was accused by the U.N. of summary executions, rape and the use of child soldiers during a brutal insurgency a decade ago.
    — Lesley Wroughton, Washington Post, 2022-06-01
  • Prior to colonization in 1919, Hutus and Tutsi were impermanent economic class categories, likely determined by the number of cattle individuals owned.
    — Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, The Conversation, 2024-04-05

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