Hutu refugees

Goma, Zaire, 1994 Hutu refugees fight with sticks and knives during a food distribution in the Goma refugee camp. After the Rwandan genocide in which ethnic Hutus killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, Hutus where chased from Rwanda and took refuge by the hundreds of thousands in neighboring Zaire. (today Democratic Republic of Congo) Tens of thousands of Hutu refugees later died of disease and malnutrition in refugee camps set up in Zaire.