What was the Hutu group?

What was the Hutu group?

Hutu, also called Bahutu or Wahutu, Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi. Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast majority in both countries but were traditionally subject to the Tutsi (q.v.), warrior-pastoralists of Nilotic stock.

What does Hutu mean in history?

Definition of Hutu : a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi.

What was the Hutu movement?

Hutu Power political parties and movements included the Akazu, the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic and its Impuzamugambi paramilitary militia, and the governing National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development and its Interahamwe paramilitary militia.

Who were Hutu Tutsis?

Generally speaking, Hutus were an agricultural people who lived in large family groups. The Tutsis, also known as Watutsis, were a nomadic people who began arriving in the Great Lakes region from Ethiopia some four hundred years ago.

Who are the Hutu people of Rwanda?

The Hutu is the largest of the three main population divisions in Burundi and Rwanda. Prior to 2017, the CIA World Factbook stated that 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis being the second largest ethnic group at 15% and 14% of residents of Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.

What does militia mean?

1 a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency The militia was called to quell the riot.

Where did the Hutu come from?

The Hutu are believed to have first emigrated to the Great Lake region from Central Africa in the great Bantu expansion. Various theories have emerged to explain the purported physical differences between them and their fellow Bantu -speaking neighbors, the Tutsi.

What were the actions of the militias against the Tutsis?

The militias also initiated searches of houses in the city, slaughtering Tutsi and looting their property.