HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Coltan, Mobutu Sese Seko, Good Governance

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Affected by economic problems in the 80s, the authoritarian hutu government agreed to multi-party elections which resulted in the rwandese. Patriotic front tutsi exiles in uganda launched an abortive invasion in. Government forced to form a coalition and signed a peace agreement with the rpf allowing rpf to become a part of administration radicals within. Hutu elite took violent action to ward off the threat of democracy and overcome the economic crisis by seizing tutsi land and property. Trigger for genocide with assassination of rwanda"s president hutu extremists ordered the murder of the tutsi population and of hutu moderates 800,000 tutsi murdered. Civil war led to mobutu"s fall from power but then kabila broke with the. Rwandan and ugandan backers newly renamed drc became immersed in a prolonged and bitter conflict rebels in the east received armed support from rwanda and uganda while kabila turned to angola, zimbabwe and.