It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Members of the ethnic Hutu majority killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Over the next 100 days extremist Hutu militia killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

In the new Rwanda you will have Tutsis voting for Hutus and vice versa.

ECONOMIST: Neither Hutu nor Tutsi, just Rwandan

However, Burundi's Tutsis would fear for their own safety if the nation's army was commanded by Hutus.

BBC: Analysis: Burundi's shattered hopes

Rwanda and Uganda got involved in the Congo mess because they wanted to hunt down those genocidal Rwandan Hutus.

ECONOMIST: Congo