There is no essential difference, - they live on either side of a border created by Europeans.
The conflict between the Tutsi and the Hutus was conducted mainly with machetes.
Different beliefs, different areas of origin. The definitions of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" peoples may have changed through time and location. The Hutu are the largest of the three ethnic groups in Burundi and Rwanda. Tutsi resisted conversion to Christianity by catholic missionaries, the missionaries found success only among the Hutu.
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The Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups
The Tutsi Tribe Is an East-Central Africa Tribe Located In Rwanda and Burundi. The Hutu's are basically Tutsi slaves and do all of there work while the Tutsi get paid for it. 690,000 people in the tribe.
The Tutsi had some power in Rwanda when in 1963, a Tutsi prime minister was chosen by the monarch. However, in later years, there was a Rwandan civil war which resulted in the death of many of the Tutsi people.
Class differences and general tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi groups.
The Tutsi people have traditionally practiced a mix of Christianity, Islam, and indigenous beliefs. Many Tutsi converted to Christianity during colonization, while some retain elements of their indigenous beliefs. There is no single, uniform religion followed by all Tutsi individuals.
It was the culmination, largely influenced by the Belqen colonization which favored the Tutsi minority group because of their more "European" appearance, of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959-1962 and overthrown the Tutsi monarchy.