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Walikale: Rwanda has massed thousands of troops on its border with Congo as a scramble for mineral wealth risked fresh conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region. A clandestine network of plunder — illegally mining precious metals in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo — has pushed neighbouring Rwanda to the brink of another invasion. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said his objective was to wipe out Hutu militants sheltering across the border, but there was evidence of an additional reason: protecting Rwanda's riches. Rwanda invaded its giant neighbour in 1996 and 1998, with the stated aim of crushing Hutu militants who fled over the border after killing more than half a million Tutsis in the 1994 genocide. More than three million persons were killed in the war that followed the second invasion, and the United Nations accused Rwanda and other occupying powers of plundering Congo's minerals.
— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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