How to Use Hutu in a Sentence

Hutu

noun

• The rebels, led by Mr. Kagame, said the Hutu extremists downed the plane as a pretext for genocide.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 2024-04-07
• His family with Tatiana is mixed: Hutu and Tutsi, all jumbled up.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2024-07-29
• The Hutu were doing that about the Tutsi, the Nazis obviously were doing it about the Jews, and so forth.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2023-11-16
• When a halt was finally called, 2 million Hutu fled the country, fearing retribution.
  — E O Wilson, Discover Magazine, 2012-06-11
• Bands of Hutu extremists began slaughtering the Tutsi, with support from the army, police, and militias.
  — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 2020-11-11
• Permanent separation of Hutu and Tutsi seemed the only solution.
  — Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 2024-04-07
• The killers, for the most part, came from the Hutu majority — some were formally in the military, but many were part of paramilitary organizations called the interahamwe.
  — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 2024-05-13
• While many accused Tutsi rebels of killing the two leaders, who were both of Hutu ethnicity, some evidence suggests that Hutu extremists planned the attack as a catalyst for a genocide that had been planned long before.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 2024-04-21
• The Rwandan genocide saw Hutu militias and civilians alike murder vast numbers of members of the Tutsi ethnic minority: men, women and children, many of whom had been their neighbors before the conflict began.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 2023-05-25