The Rwandan genocide of 1994 killed 800,000 people, most of them ethnic Tutsi, in the space of three months and triggered two successive civil wars in neighbouring Congo. Although these more or less ended in 2003, the genocide's fallout can still incite violence and rouse armies. This month the un Security Council authorised a military attack by a 3,000-strong multinational intervention force against a militia in eastern Congo that was formed two decades ago by Rwandan genocidaires who fled to the region's remote forests after losing power. They have made mur-derous mischief there ever since in the hope of toppling their formerfoes.
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