Example sentences for: tutsis

How can you use “tutsis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These refugees included members of the Hutu militias that had led the murder of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis.

  • While militarily successful, Kabila's alliance with the Tutsis is a political handicap for him, because many Bantus have their own deep-seated hatred toward Tutsis.

  • Gould and I are convinced of each other's confusion, and the Hutus and Tutsis, long before the slaughter began, were convinced of each other's treachery.

  • The NYT depicts the U.N. report as striking in its institutional candor: Although commissioned by the current Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the report criticizes him and his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for failing to take decisive action as the peacekeeping troops on the ground in Rwanda reported back about the Hutu militia's plans for ethnic attacks against Tutsis and about their accumulating weapons caches towards that end.

  • A piece says the United Nations knew that Rwandan Hutus were preparing to slaughter Tutsis three months before the 1994 massacre.


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