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After former president Habyarimana was assassinated, Hutu extremists took over the government, blamed the Tutsis and began killing them. In 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were murdured. Millions more fled into the DRC along with Hutu extremists.
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Rwanda and Uganda invade the DRC to destroy Hutu extremist militia camps who have been leading attacks against the Tutsis in Rwanda.
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Rebels who were against Mobutu and who were backed by Rwanda, attacked and seized control of the capital of Kinshasa. They then installed Laurent Kabila as president. The country was then renamed to the DRC again.
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After President Kabila closed ties with Rwanda, Rwanda invaded again. Several other countries including Zimbabwe, Angola, and Namibia who allied with the D.R.C. and Burundi and Uganda for Rwanda. they fought to gain control over natural resources.
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A cease-fire agreement was made and signed but was ineffective because fighting never stopped as both sides violated the accord.
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Kabila was assassinated shortly after the failed cease-fire agreement. He was succeeded by his son Joseph Kabila.
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50,000 people were displaced when a fight between CNDP rebels and the army in North Kivu that was backed by the United Nations.
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The reintegration of Nkunda's forces into the national army fails and leads to renewed violence in the province of North Kivu.
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The peace treaty that had been signed 5 days before was broken when CNDP AND PARECO forces clash.
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The eastern provinces of the DRC were the place of more violen clashes between the Congolese army and CNDP rebels.
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CNDP forces attack and capture several strategic areas in and aroud the provincial capital of Goma. Government troops begin looting and attacking civilians and thousands were forced to leave.
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Joseph Kony and LRA soldiers begin massacres against Congolese civilians in two of the eastern provinces
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After being pursued through North Kivu in the DRC, Laurent Nkunda was arrested in Rwanda by Congolese and Rwandan troops.
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100 civilians were killed by FDLR members in retaliation to a join operation by the DRC-Rwandan militaries to expel the FDLR from the DRC.
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FDLR forces attacked dozens of villages in the eastern portion of the DRC. They torched the villages and also raped and killed the villagers.