RDC : AFDL and Hutu Genocidej
25 years ago today, on 18 October 1996, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) was officially formed.
The AFDL is well known to have been the umbrella of all armed forces that targeted refugee camps along the Zaire-Rwanda border, killing hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians, kick-starting phase 2 of the Hutu Genocide: