The Hutu people, also known as the Abahutu, are agricultural Bantu-speaking ethnic group in Central African countries of Rwanda, Burundi, and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where they form one of the principal population divisions alongside the Tutsi and the Twa.
The Hutu is the largest of the four main population divisions in Burundi and Rwanda and constitute over 12.5 million people.
























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