Meanings of hutu majority in English

Like Rwanda, Burundi has an ethnic Hutu majority and a Tutsi minority.

Most of the dead were members of Burundi's Hutu majority.

Rwanda and Burundi share the same ethnic mix of a Hutu majority and Tutsi minority.

This time it is a farmer from the Hutu majority who has been badly injured in a machete attack.

Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader from the Hutu majority, has so far defied international pressure to withdraw from the election.

In the 12-year war, the formerly Tutsi-led army fought rebel groups from the Hutu majority, including one commanded by Nkurunziza.

In the war, rebel groups of the Hutu majority fought the army which was led at the time by minority Tutsi commanders.

Earlier, aid officials in Kigali had put the death toll at 200 and said the attackers were rebels of Rwanda's Hutu majority.

Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader from the Hutu majority and a born-again Christian, believes he ascended to the presidency in 2005 with divine backing.

In 1994, extremists from Rwanda's Hutu majority hacked and shot to death 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.

-It was the second legislative vote since the 1994 genocide of 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderates from the Hutu majority.

Rwanda is still recovering from the massacres of 1994 when extremists of the Hutu majority butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.