Meanings of hutu militias in English

The two countries agreed in Nairobi last November that Congo's army would forcibly disarm Hutu militias.

Hutu militias raped thousands of women and girls.

The Rwandan genocide and flight of Hutu militias to Congo are at the root of the violence there.

Kagame was then leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which defeated the government's Hutu militias to end the genocide.

Kagame has accused former French President Francois Mitterrand's administration of training and arming the Hutu militias responsible for the slaughter.

The Hutus fled Rwanda in 1994, fearing reprisals for the genocide of up to a million Tutsis by Hutu militias.

Kagame was then leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front which defeated the Habyarimana government's Hutu militias to end the genocide.

Nkunda, a Tutsi, is battling Hutu militias which he says are being used by the Congolese army as allies to fight him.

About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu militias within 100 days during the 1994 genocide.

These are mass graves in which are buried some of the thousands of Taba residents who were slaughtered by the Interahamwe Hutu militias.

The presence of Hutu militias in Congo provoked Tutsi-led Rwandan invasions that helped ignite Congo's wider 1998-2003 war.

Rwanda has accused the administration of former French President Francois Mitterrand of having trained and armed the Hutu militias that were behind the killings.

Eventually, Paul Kagame and the Rwandese Patriotic Front fought the Hutu militias for three months and took power of Rwanda in July of 1994.

- Hutu militias fled to Congo, their presence provoking Tutsi-ledRwandan invasions that helped ignite Congo's wider 1998-2003war.

Some of the Rwandan rebels, now known as the FDLR, were part of the extremist Hutu militias that took part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

Among the many armed groups operating in eastern Congo are Rwandan Hutu militias accused of involvement in Rwanda's 1994 genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.