pty and flee farther into the DRC or back to Rwanda.
             The Banyamulenge (Tutsi) rebels continued to fight with the Hutu militia with hundreds and thousands of refugees caught in the war zone. With little guidance from the DRC government, the army "enjoyed" a loose command and control structure.
             The "Great Lakes" political and ethnic political and ethnic conflict has no clear or easy solution. Short term actions will have to focus on relief issues for the refugees but even those short term acts have complex political repercussions. Does the international community provide aid only on the Rwanda side of the border, thus encouraging the Hutu refugees to return to their country and cease to be used as a Hutu militia shield? Or do the UN and non-government set up camps in DRC border or continuing Hutus militias ability to use the refugee camps?
             The war currently being fought in the eastern part of the DRC involves at least three more neighboring countries, and a numerous amount of rebel groups and militias. This fact may seem surprising to those who follow the affairs of Central Africa, since a cease fire was signed at Lusaka in July 1999 by all the nations who were then fighting. Half of the country is occupied by 35,000 Rwandan troops; while Angola and Burundi also remain a small number of troops in the Congo. (Zimbabwe another signatory to the Lusaka cease fire; also is in the DRC but not directly involved in the fighting. President Joseph Kabila relies on Zimbabwean troops to protect him and there army is a major beneficiary to business agreements. Making them reluctant to withdraw first. The government of the DRC is being regularly criticized for supporting Hutu factions--some of whom were involved in the genocidal massacre. The DRC government has also attempted to step up international pressure on Rwanda by taking it to the International Court of Justice. While Rwanda played there own diplomatic game of refu...