Nearly 1,500 Rwandan troops have Joined the Congolese army to hunt down Hutu mlll-tla leaders suspected of orchestrating the 1994 genocide against the nation's Tutsi tribes. The alliance further undermines the authority of Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, whose forces have split since fighting between Nkunda's militia and Congolese soldiers broke out In August. More than 250,000 villagers have been displaced by the fight-Ing; Human Rights Watch reports that 650 people were killed in December alone. But some analysts say the region's violence has less to do with tribal conflict and more to do with the struggle over control of its mineral resources.
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