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IN 1990, the region's problems were further complicated by the invasion of rwanda by the rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Most of the soldiers in RPF were Tutsi refugees who had been living in neighboring Uganda since the early 1960s. In august 1993, the Arusha Accords peace agreement between the rebels and the government was signed in tanzania and a small UN force was put in place to oversee the accord. events in burundi, however, soon reignited tensions. In october 1993, Tutsi army officers killed Burundi's first Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in an attempt to overthrow the new government. burundi plunged in violence. as many as one hundred thousand people most of them Hutu, were killed.

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lder's in the RPF were Tutsi refugees who had been lviing in neighboring uganda since the early 1960s.

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