{"slug": "hutu", "label": "Hutu", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutu", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192647", "qid": "Q192647", "description": "ethnic group native to the Great Lakes region of Africa", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [-499, 1999], "span_label": ["500 BCE", "1999 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "rwanda", "label": "Rwanda", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "burundi", "label": "Burundi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "uganda", "label": "Uganda", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rwandan-genocide", "label": "Rwandan genocide", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -499, "year_label": "500 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Hutu tribe emerges around this time, in Middle and Southern Africa. (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363151372#Africa", "title": "500 BC", "revid": 1363151372, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#November", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#April", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 29", "text": "April 29 - An uprising in Burundi by the Hutu people against the Tutsi-dominated government, began with machete attacks that killed more than 3,000 Tutsi civilians and soldiers. In the words of one observer, \"the ferocity of the ensuing repression by the army was beyond imagination\", with more than 100,000 Hutus being massacred over the next five months. In the genocide that followed, educated Hutu people—schoolchildren, college students, civil servants—were murdered, \"especially anyone wearing glasses\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243230006#April", "title": "1972 in Burundi", "revid": 1243230006, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – The Hutu Rwandans started murdering thousands of Tutsi Rwandans and moderate Hutus. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was among those murdered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322141932#April_6", "title": "1994 in Rwanda", "revid": 1322141932, "section": "Events › April 6"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#April", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#January", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#April", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#March", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › March"}}]}