What the records say
- When
- Oct 1996 – May 1997
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 200,000
- Coordinates
- 2.50° S, 28.00° E
- Description
- mass killings
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Massacres of Hutus in the First Congo War
1996–1997 genocidal massacres
During the First Congo War, Rwandan, Congolese, and Burundian Hutu men, women, and children in villages and refugee camps were hunted down and became victims of mass killings in eastern Zaire.
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