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Hutu
Abahutu
Regions with significant populations
Hutu Rwanda11.1–12 million (84%–90% of the total population)[1]
Hutu Burundi10.4 million (85% of the total population)
Hutu DR Congo2 million (2% of the total population)
Languages
Kinyarwanda, Kirundi
Religion
Predominantly Christianity,
minority Islam
Related ethnic groups
Other Rwanda-Rundi peoples

The Hutu (/ˈht/), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the Great Lakes Twa.

  1. ^ Since the Rwandan massacre, no ethnic census has been conducted an estimated 84 to 90 percent of the population is Hutu.

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Hutu

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The Hutu (/ˈhuːtuː/), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live...

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Hutu Power

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Hutu Power is racial supremacist ideology that asserts the ethnic superiority of Hutu, often in the context of being superior to Tutsi and Twa, and that...

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Rwandan genocide

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Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. Although the Constitution of Rwanda states that...

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Rwandan Revolution

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The Rwandan Revolution, also known as the Hutu Revolution, Social Revolution, or Wind of Destruction (Kinyarwanda: muyaga), was a period of ethnic violence...

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Tutsi

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in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic group Hutu and the Pygmy group of the Twa). Historically, the Tutsi were pastoralists...

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Burundi

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Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more...

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History of Rwanda

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majority Hutu under President Grégoire Kayibanda. Unsettled ethnic and political tensions were worsened when Juvénal Habyarimana, who was also Hutu, seized...

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Hutu Ten Commandments

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"Hutu Ten Commandments" (also "Ten Commandments of the Bahutu") was a document published in the December 1990 edition of Kangura, an anti-Tutsi, Hutu Power...

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Rwandan Civil War

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dispute between the Hutu and Tutsi groups within the Rwandan population. A 1959–1962 revolution had replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a Hutu-led republic, forcing...

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Ikiza

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Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. Conservative estimates place the death toll of...

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Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War

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During the First Congo War, Rwandan, Congolese, and Burundian Hutu men, women, and children in villages and refugee camps were hunted down and became victims...

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Interahamwe

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The Interahamwe (/ˌɪntərəˈhɑːmweɪ/ or [í.nɦêː.ɾɑ́.hɑ́.mŋe]) is a Hutu paramilitary organization active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda...

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Ethnic groups in Rwanda

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The largest ethnic groups in Rwanda are the Hutus, which make up about 85% of Rwanda's population; the Tutsis, which are 14%; and the Twa, which are around...

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Rwanda

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pro-Tutsi policy. The Hutu population revolted in 1959. They massacred numerous Tutsi and ultimately established an independent, Hutu-dominated republic...

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Paul Kagame

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Habyarimana set off the genocide, in which Hutu extremists killed an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Kagame resumed the civil war and ended...

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Kingdom of Rwanda

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between the Hutu and the Tutsi during the Belgian-led Hutu Revolution which started in 1959. After a 1961 referendum, Rwanda became a Hutu-dominated republic...

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Parmehutu

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The Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement (French: Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu, Parmehutu), also known as the Republican Democratic Movement...

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List of Hutus

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This is a list of famous Hutus who have Wikipedia biographies which include mention of Hutu identity. Frédéric Bamvuginyumvira, First Vice-President of...

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Bahutu Manifesto

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Manifesto (French: Manifeste des Bahutu) was a document composed by nine Rwandan Hutu intellectuals on 24 March 1957 for submission to the Governor of Ruanda-Urundi...

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Hotel Rwanda

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Belgian-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines, is Hutu, but his wife Tatiana is Tutsi. Their marriage is a source of friction with Hutu extremists, including Georges Rutaganda...

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Burundian Civil War

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The civil war was the result of longstanding ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi ethnic groups. The conflict began following the first multi-party...

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Hassan Ngeze

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convicted war criminal best known for spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda and Hutu superiority through his newspaper, Kangura, which he founded in 1990. Ngeze...

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1993 ethnic violence in Burundi

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Mass killings of Tutsis were conducted by the majority-Hutu populace in Burundi from 21 October to December 1993, under an eruption of ethnic animosity...

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Sometimes in April

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Augustin Muganza, a Hutu who struggles to find closure after bearing witness to the killing of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days, while...

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Banyamulenge

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rich Hutu and the Guard Civile off the Bahunde and ordinary Hutu. The DSP appeared to be protecting the rights of the "non-indigenous" (primarily Hutu) against...

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