"majority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The minority Tutsi (around 14 percent of the population) and the majority Hutu have had a history of ethnic clashes since the 19th century.
- The massacres were not driven solely by an ethnic hatred of one group, the majority Hutu, against the minority Tutsi, she said.
- In 1959, Belgium reversed its stance and allowed the majority Hutu to assume control of the government through universal elections after independence.
- In Rwanda, the political power was transferred from the minority Tutsi to the majority Hutu.
- The civil war, which began in 1993, pits the Tutsi-led army against various rebels from the ethnic majority Hutus.
- More than 100,000 people have been killed in conflict between minority Tutsi and majority Hutu in Burundi.
- Kayibanda's successful campaign brought the majority Hutu to power for the first time in Rwanda.
- The Central African nation has been ravaged by civil war between its main ethnic groups, the majority Hutu and the more powerful Tutsi.
- The majority Hutus made enormous gains within the country.
- The new government integrates the minority - but long dominant - Tutsi and the majority Hutu at the highest levels.
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