Hutus, a Bantu race, comprise about 85 percent of Burundi's population and were the victims of a Tutsi-led mass genocide campaign in 1972. After President Ndadaye was overthrown and executed in an abandoned coup effort in October 1993, the Hutus went on a stampede. When it was over, nearly a quarter million corpses were left in the wake. The leader of the Hutu rebels, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD)-its armed wing is called Forces for the Defense of Democracy-is Leonard Nyangoma, a former interior minister.
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