There has never been Hutu Tutsi conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dallaire described in detail how the Hutus were planning anti Tutsi extermination.

PALIPEHUTU FNL, represented by His Excellency Mr. Agathon Rwasa, President of the Party,

In October 1993, the killing by members of the army of Melchior Ndadaye, the first civilian, Hutu, non Bururi, and democratically elected president provoked a bloody reaction by the Hutu.

Estimates show that there are equal numbers of Muslims amongst the Hutus as there are amongst the Tutsis.

Many portray this war as the result of hatred between the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi.

Urges that renewed efforts be made for the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement with the PALIPEHUTU FNL.

In this respect, the Council appeals urgently to the PALIPEHUTU FNL to join the peace process without delay

In November, 707 members of the FNL Palipehutu left the movement and surrendered to the authorities.

He identified his source a Hutu and reported that arms were ready for the impending ethnic cleansing.

As monsoon season came and went, the Hutu Tutsi conflict in neighbouring Congo began to escalate and then spill over into Zambia with repercussions all along the lake.

Speakers expressed their concern over their marginalization by both the Hutus and the Tutsi and that conflict resolution and power sharing arrangements did not yet include the Batwa.

The Cabinet, in accordance with the new Constitution, provides for a 60 40 ratio of Hutus to Tutsis.

Declaration on the Dar es Salaam meeting of 15 May 2005 between the Transitional Government of Burundi and PALIPEHUTU FNL

A decade ago there would have been a good argument in international law that the Hutu Tutsi example supports prosecution only after the damage has been done.

Burundi's cultural and linguistic homogeneity, rare in Africa, belies the simplistic view that the Hutu and Tutsi fight because they are so different.

At the same time, Burundi's Hutu saw Rwanda as a role model and believed their ethnic majority should guarantee them de facto control of the country.

As a result, the Tutsi dominated government entered into negotiations with Hutu leaders, which led to the signing of a political accord in August 2000.

The mission expressed concern at the increase in insecurity and attacks on civilians, reportedly caused by Palipehutu FNL, led by Agathon Rwasa.

The Forces nationales de libération (Palipehutu FNL), which pose a threat to the security of Burundi and of the region as a whole, must join the peace camp without delay.

Fearing retribution by the Tutsi dominated army, large numbers of Hutu fled the country while armed rebels engaged the army.

However, there is still some concern as to the presence of numerous armed groups, including the FNL Palipehutu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The two parties thank the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Benjamin William Mkapa and his Government for facilitating the meeting between the Transitional Government of Burundi and PALIPEHUTU FNL.

Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.

However, clashes between the Parti pour la libération du peuple hutu Forces nationales de libération (FNL), led by Agathon Rwasa, and the Forces nationales de défence (FND) continued in the provinces of Bujumbura rural and Bubanza, and even expanded to the western provinces of Burundi.

Annan was alerted four months before Hutu activists began their mass killings by a fax message from Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general commanding UN forces in Rwanda.

In the 1920's and 1930's, the Belgian authorities enacted policies that defined the population along ethnic lines and favored the Tutsi in a deliberate and successful effort to divide society and fan resentment among Hutu leaders.

Indeed, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda punished radio station operators who made aggressive public broadcasts urging Hutus to pick up their machetes and murder Tutsis.

Annan rejected both demands, proposing that Dallaire make the informant's identity known to Rwandan President Habyarimana, a Hutu, even though the informant had expressly named the President's closest entourage as the authors of the genocide blueprint.

The mission received detailed briefings on recent efforts by the United Republic of Tanzania to facilitate dialogue between the Government of Burundi and Palipehutu FNL, as mandated by the regional initiative for peace in Burundi.

Encourage the Government to continue to engage Palipehutu FNL with a view to bringing them into the peace process, and call upon FNL to join the peace process without further delays or conditions.

On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the declaration on the meeting held in Dar es Salaam on 15 May 2005 between the Transitional Government of Burundi and PALIPEHUTU FNL (see annex).

He has been indicted for his role in the creation, funding and management of the RTLM hate radio, and in the funding, arming and provision of logistical support to the interahamwe for the declared purpose of extermination of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The first such cause is the legacy of colonization. In the 1920's and 1930's, the Belgian authorities enacted policies that defined the population along ethnic lines and favored the Tutsi in a deliberate and successful effort to divide society and fan resentment among Hutu leaders.

No one should be surprised by the UN's inaction, because only the year before it had demonstrated utter incompetence in facing the fastest genocide in history the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in just 100 days.