Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Bantu people inhabiting Rwanda and Burundi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
futu .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An ethnic group in
Rwanda andBurundi . - proper noun A member of the group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi
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Examples
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And because the U.S. government had done little when some 40,000 people had been killed in Hutu-Tutsi violence in Burundi in October of 1993, these officials also knew that Washington was prepared to tolerate substantial bloodshed.
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And because the U.S. government had done little when some 40,000 people had been killed in Hutu-Tutsi violence in Burundi in October of 1993, these officials also knew that Washington was prepared to tolerate substantial bloodshed.
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Where maybe someday, they’ll do the Watutsi on down in Hutu hell
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They decided that they needed to adopt these orphaned children whether they were Tutsi or Hutu -- in other words, no matter what side they were on.
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Subsequently Tutsi's -- now the ruling power group in Rwanda -- crossed the border into the Congo to wipe out those Hutu militias known as the Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
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Most of the dead belonged to an ethnic group known as the Tutsi, while most of the killings were carried out by members of an ethnic group known as the Hutu.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Once upon a time, way back in the days when the Song dynasty discovered oil in Hangzhou* and moved south, a nearby fishing community called Hutu (also sometimes called Hudu) found itself strategically situated and soon became home to several the bigwigs from up north.
Shanghaiist 2010
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Once upon a time, way back in the days when the Song dynasty discovered oil in Hangzhou* and moved south, a nearby fishing community called Hutu (also sometimes called Hudu) found itself strategically situated and soon became home to several the bigwigs from up north.
Shanghaiist Elaine Chow 2010
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All of these Rwandans and non-Rwandans cherish a fantasy of someday reviving 'Hutuland' and the 'demographic democracy' that prevailed from 1959 to 1994, in other words, a Hutu dictatorship based exclusively on Hutu constituting a large majority of the population.
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During this period of the occupation of eastern Congo they did not wipe out the so-called Hutu militia.
Dissident Voice 2009
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