LIST OF WARS: DETAILS
First Rwanda Civil War
Battle deaths: 1,000 [1]
Nation(s) involved and/or conflict territory [note]
Rwanda
Between 1961 and 1962, Tutsi guerrilla groups staged attacks into Rwanda from neighboring countries. Rwandan Hutu-based troops responded, and thousands more were killed in the clashes. On 1 July 1962, Belgium, with UN oversight, granted full independence to the two countries. Rwanda was created as a republic governed by the majority MDR-Parmehutu, which had gained full control of national politics. In 1963, a Tutsi guerrilla invasion into Rwanda from Burundi unleashed another anti-Tutsi backlash by the Hutu government; their forces killed an estimated 14,000 people [1]. The economic union between Rwanda and Burundi was dissolved and tensions between the two countries worsened. Rwanda became a Hutu-dominated one-party state.
Source: Wikipedia, published under the GNU FDL. Retrieved 2014-03-03
Notes:
[1] See Burundi Civil War
SOURCES: FATALITY DATA
Notes on fatalities
[1] Battle deaths: Correlates of War, Intra-State War Data v4.1 (id 761)
NOTE ON NATION DATA
NOTE! Nation data for this war may be inconlusive or incomplete. In most cases it reflects which nations were involved with troops in this war, but in some it may instead reflect the contested territory.
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