Regional attempts to capitalise on still fragile situations

Great Lakes timeline

1960

Congo gains independence.

1962

Burundi and Rwanda gain independence.

1963

Massacres of Tutsis by Hutu powers in Rwanda.

1965

Assassination of Burundi’s Hutu prime minister, Pierre Ngendandumwe.

1972

Massacres of Tutsis in southern Burundi. Repression and exile of hundreds of thousands of (...)

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