In 1997 Laurent-Désiré Kabila was installed as President of the DRC following the victory by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo ( ADFL ) in the First Congo War , with heavy support from the governments of Uganda and Rwanda . However , the ethnic tensions in eastern DRC did not disappear . Thousands of Hutu militants who had taken part in the Rwandan genocide and been forced to flee into the DRC maintained a low intensity war with the invading Rwandan army and their Banyamulenge co-ethnics living in the Congolese provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu . By February 1998 the Kivus were engulfed in ethnic warfare . Banyamulenge ADFL troops based in the town of Bukavu mutinied as tensions increased . The mutiny soured the relationship between Kabila and his Rwandan and Ugandan allies
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
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