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The other cliché about Tutsis is that they live by herding cattle, whereas their squat, flat-nosed neighbours (this includes the Hutus) subsist by growing crops.
"Hotel Rwanda" Steve Sailer 2005
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"However, if Kabila persists with his killing of all those whom he describes as Tutsis, as Rwandans ... we will intervene," the minister said, accusing the Congolese head of state of having begun
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"However, if Kabila persists with his killing of all those whom he describes as Tutsis, as Rwandans ... we will intervene," the minister said, accusing the Congolese head of state of having begun
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"If Kabila persists with his killing of all those whom he describes as Tutsis, as Rwandans ... we will intervne," a senior minister said.
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"If Kabila persists with his killing of all those whom he describes as Tutsis, as Rwandans ... we will intervene," the minister said, and accused Kabila of having begun a "genocide" in the DRC.
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In that 1992 speech, he referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches" and called for their extermination.
The Seattle Times 2012
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He referred to Tutsis as cockroaches, and said they should be exterminated.
BBC News - Home 2012
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In 1994, Hutu radio broadcasts that called Tutsis cockroaches helped lead to genocide in Rwanda.
Wayne Besen: Republican Mobs Stirrng The Pot Until It Boils Over 2009
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Before Kenya there was Rwanda in 1994 where Hutus were agitated, goaded, egged on and encouraged by political extremists with a naked power grab agenda who persuaded their kinsmen and women that the Tutsis were their enemies and was planning to kill them.
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Speke theorized the Tutsis were a lost Christian tribe from the Middle East.
Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006
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