The bodies of Hutu Rwandan refugees were dumped by the side of the road in Kibumba refugee camp. A truck came and loaded the bodies and took them

　The bodies of Hutu Rwandan refugees were dumped by the roadside in the Kibumba refugee camp. A truck later came and loaded the bodies onto the truck and took them away. It is estimated that around 1.2 million Rwandan refugees fled to the Zaire Republic after the outbreak of civil war in their own country. The Kibumba Refugee Camp in Zaire is located about 40 minutes north of Goma, close to the border with Rwanda, and was built on the ruins of the Rwanda Refugee Camp. Refugees gathered from places such as Rugare, which is about 10km away, and Tongo, which is about 40km away. The Givumba refugee camp was run by the refugees themselves, and the UN and NGOs provided services within the refugee camp under an agreement with the refugee committee.

　In the Republic of Rwanda, there was conflict between the minority Tutsi tribe and the majority Hutu tribe from the 16th century. In 1990, a civil war broke out between the Hutu government army and the Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF ) broke out. A ceasefire agreement was reached in August 1993, but in April 1994, the plane carrying President Habyarimana was shot down, and the civil war broke out again and intensified. The large number of refugees created by the civil war poured into Zaire, Tanzania and Uganda. In July 1994, a new Rwandan government was established, and more than 1.4 million Rwandan refugees poured into Zaire, particularly into the Goma and Bukavu areas. As a result, the refugee camps in Goma and Bukavu were hit by an outbreak of infectious diseases such as cholera and dysentery, and at one point, nearly 2,000 people a day were dying, plunging the area into a tragic state of crisis.

　The Hutu side, who had massacred around 800,000 people, were deeply scarred by the fact that they had been defeated in Rwanda, and a large number of refugees fled to the Republic of Congo to escape the defeat. The Tutsi (RPF) who had taken power in the Republic of Rwanda pursued the Hutu who had been killed. They invaded deep into Congolese territory in search of the Hutu murderers. The Hutu, who had become the defeated party, launched a cross-border attack on Rwanda from the refugee camp in Congolese territory, believing that they would be able to return to their homeland of Rwanda. The Rwandan genocide transformed into the Congolese War between 1994 and 1999.