This was so under the radar with everything else going on in the world that I’m just reading about it this morning, days after it happened.
The Rwandan genocide of 1996-1997, aka The First Congo War – you probably all remember those horrific images of minority ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus who had been slaughtered by rampaging Hutu extremists. That began a cycle of cross-border ethnic violence between Rwandan-supported rebels (or Hutu extremists) and the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Almost two million Hutu refugees had sought safety in the DRC during the aftermath of the first war. However, Hutu extremists slipped in with them and organized rebel militias that preyed on the camps and Hutus in the border region.
…Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997)…
