Meanings of hutu population in English

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

In just three months, around 800,000 minority Tutsis were killed by the majority Hutu population.

Bagosora then unleashed the genocide against the Tutsi minority, mobilising the general Hutu population to support the Interahamwe and the army in the mass killings.

The larger Hutu population took over power when Belgium granted the country independence in 1962, and for decades the previously dominated Tutsis were semi-officially demonised.