Rene:

Melchior Ndadaye, the first president ever elected in Burundi was murdered by the Burundian Tutsi-dominate army in 1993.  This only made the situation worsen.  Following this event a brutal civil war broke between Tutsi and Hutu which then managed to reach the other side of the border into Rwanda.  The United Nations provided a small “peacekeeping” army named the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, this small force did not last long in Rwanda due to the fact that this situation and group was over looked, underfunded.  The UNAMIR was not prepared and could not do much in the middle of a horrifying civil war.  Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaires of UNAMIR at one point asked for additional troops and changes to the rules of engagement to prevent the coming genocide, but all of his request were ignored.  The second Burundian president was also assassinated along with the Hutu president of Rwanda when the jet they were traveling in was shot down by the Uganda army.  People believe that the U.S. had something to do with the assassination to create access to Congolese natural resources.  Whatever the reason might have been for this situation to develop it became a part of the cycle that keeps on getting repeated over and over all over the world.  It is a system which humans take part of repeat evilly.