The Tutsi monarchy used the land distribution system of uburetwa to centralise control of the lands in most of Rwanda in a system called igikingi.

Tutsis fled from massacres after Hutus overthrew a Tutsi monarchy in a 1959 uprising.

For over 20 years prior to German and then Belgian colonization, a Tutsi monarchy had controlled most of Rwanda.

The Belgian-sponsored Tutsi monarchy survived until 1959, when Kigeli V was exiled from the colony (then called Ruanda-Urundi).

The Tutsi monarchy was paralysed by the colonisation through Germany followed by Belgium.

There was allegations of a royalist faction working to undermine the RPF government, and restore the Tutsi monarchy.

In 1959 the Hutu majority overthrew the Tutsi monarchy, which had controlled much of the country for centuries.

He led Rwanda's struggle for independence from Belgium, and replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government.

Such changes ended the Tutsi monarchy, which had existed for centuries.

At independence in 1959, the Hutu staged a revolution against the Tutsi monarchy and hundreds of thousands of Tutsi died.