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The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath - UNHCR
Ethnic tensions and armed conflict in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa havebeen the cause of repeated instances of human displacement. The pattern of events inthe last 50 years is rooted in a long history of violence, but it is also a story of missedopportunities, on the part of both local actors and the international community ingeneral. Failure to pursue just solutions to old grievances has in all too many cases,years or decades later, led to a recurrence of violence and to bloodletting on an evengreater scale than legacy of the 1959 63 crisis in Rwanda (described in Chapter 2) was thepresence of Tutsi refugees in all neighbouring countries. Denied the possibility ofrepatriation for the next three decades, they nevertheless maintained links with theTutsi in Rwanda. In the late 1980s, Tutsi exiles in Uganda, who had joined YoweriMuseveni s National Resistance Army (NRA) to fight against the regime of MiltonObote, and who had come to form part of the Ugandan national armed forces whenthe NRA came to power, began to plot a military comeback, creating the RwandanPatriotic Front (Front patriotique rwandais, or RPF).
The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath illustrated in the camps for Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire, where UNHCR, through the UN Secretary-General, repeatedly asked states to assist in separating armed elements from the civilian population. No government was willing to send external military or police forces to assist with this task. As a result,
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