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Although Rwanda successfully overthrew Mobutu in a matter of months (replacing him with Laurent-Désiré Kabila), CNDD–FDD rebels still significantly expand their operations in 1997, even infiltrating Burundi and attacking Rutovu, President Pierre Buyoya's home town and the center of Burundi's Tutsi elite at the time. [103]
[13] [10] Since independence, Burundi has seen extensive violence between members of the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. [17] Burundi's post-colonial ethnic tensions have especially been compared to those in Rwanda, which saw similar ethnic tension between Hutu and Tutsi flare up into violence on several occasions, notably during the Rwandan ...
The Democratic republic of Congo was a country of refuge for Hutu and Tutsi groups that fled genocide on foot. Tutsi also fled Rwanda (when the monarchy was overthrown) into the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. In Burundi during the genocide of the Hutu many Hutu fled into the DRC as well these also form part of the Bayarwanda community.
The origins of the Hutu, Tutsi and Twa peoples is a major issue of controversy in the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the Great Lakes region of Africa.The relationship among the three modern populations is thus, in many ways, derived from the perceived origins and claim to "Rwandan-ness".
An official in Burundi says nine people have been killed in an attack by rebels opposed to his government and again accuses neighboring Rwanda of supporting the armed group. Government spokesman ...
The Hutu is the largest of the three main population divisions in Burundi and Rwanda.Prior to 2017, the CIA World Factbook stated that 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis being the second largest ethnic group at 15% and 14% of residents of Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.
In 2000 they numbered approximately 80,000 people, making them a significant minority group in these countries. [2] The largest population of Twa is located in Burundi estimated in 2008 at 78,071 people. [3] Apart from anthropological literature, the term "Twa" generally refers to the Twa of the Great Lakes region.
In July 1973 a Tutsi massacre of Hutu elites in neighboring Burundi triggered another flare-up of domestic racial tension in Rwanda, in which domestic Tutsi were again blamed for the actions of their foreign "counterparts." As was the case in 1963, political and physical reprisals were initiated against domestic Tutsis, beginning with the black ...