Congo - Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda

It all really started when Rwanda thought Kabila would be a good neighbor and protect Tutsis being slaughtered by Hutu's inside eastern Zaire. To keep it all honest, by the end of August 1998, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda jumped into the ring in favor of the RCD. It was a bit more than that, actually. Like Angola, both Rwanda and Uganda supported Kabila's 1997 drive to Kinshasa to oust Mobuto Sese Seko, under Kabila's assurances that he would bounce Rwandan and Ugandan Hutu rebels out of the former Zaire and the frontier zones with Rwanda and Uganda. Kabila had no such intentions. To the contrary, he started accepting forced resignation letters from Tutsi government officials, while the state radio broadcasted pep talks urging the slaughter of all Rwandan Tutsis. Burundi has been a little less overt in its support for the rebels, if one calls Burundian army choppers commuting CDC rebels around the Congolese countryside covert. Afterall, Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, is so close to the Congo border that it could be taken by Congo soldiers without having to get their passports stamped and actually march in.