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HutuMember of the majority ethnic group of Burundi and Rwanda, numbering around 9.5 million. The Hutu tend to live as peasant farmers. They have been dominated by the Tutsi minority since the 14th century and there is a long history of violent conflict between the two groups. The Hutu language belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family.
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| On November 10, 2006, a Catholic nun, Theophister Mukakibibi, was sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Hutu militia to kill hundreds of Tutsis, who were hiding in a hospital, during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Their lives were abruptly torn apart when the Hutu militia Interahamwe and ordinary Hutu citizens began the genocide of an estimated 1 million Tutsis. In 1994, members of the ruling Hutu tribe of Rwanda used the assassination of their president as an excuse for genocide. |
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