Tutsi

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The Tutsi are a traditionally cattle-herding ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region, historically associated with political power and monarchy in Rwanda and Burundi.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Tutsi canonical 7
Tutsi civilians 1
Tutsi people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
social group
alsoFoundIn Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Uganda
colonialClassificationBy Belgian colonial authorities
German colonial authorities
colonialPolicyFeature ethnic identity cards in Rwanda
continent Africa
diaspora Tutsi diaspora in Europe
Tutsi diaspora in North America
historicalEconomy cattle-based economy
historicallyAssociatedWith Burundian monarchy
Rwandan monarchy
political elite in Burundi
political elite in Rwanda
historicalStratification upper social stratum in Burundi
upper social stratum in Rwanda
languageFamily Bantu languages
languageSpoken Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
notableState Burundi
surface form: Kingdom of Burundi

Rwanda
surface form: Kingdom of Rwanda
populationStatusInBurundi ethnic minority
populationStatusInRwanda ethnic minority
postGenocidePolicyContext officially de-emphasized ethnic labels in Rwanda
primaryCountry Burundi
Rwanda
primaryRegion Great Lakes Region of Africa
surface form: African Great Lakes region
relatedEthnicGroup Hima
Hutu
Twa
religion Christianity
Islam
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
traditional African religions
socialIdentityBasis combination of ancestry, culture, and historical class status
traditionalLifestyle pastoralism
traditionalOccupation cattle herding
traditionalPoliticalSystem centralized monarchy in Burundi
centralized monarchy in Rwanda
traditionalSymbol cattle as symbol of wealth and status
UNGenocideRecognition recognized as primary victims of 1994 genocide in Rwanda
victimOf 1994 Rwandan genocide
anti-Tutsi pogroms in Rwanda
ethnic violence in Burundi

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rwanda majorEthnicGroup Tutsi
Burundi populationGroup Tutsi
Kivu hasEthnicGroups Tutsi
Paul Kagame ethnicGroup Tutsi
Hutu relatedEthnicGroup Tutsi
Great Lakes peoples includes Tutsi
this entity surface form: Tutsi people
Prosecutor v. Théoneste Bagosora victimGroup Tutsi
this entity surface form: Tutsi civilians
Interahamwe militias targetedGroup Tutsi
this entity surface form: Tutsis
Burundian Civil War primaryBelligerent Tutsi
this entity surface form: Tutsi-dominated government of Burundi