1994 genocide
The FNL, a hardlined splinter group of the "Partie pour la libération du peuple Hutu", has been fighting the Burundian government since the mid-1990s. Civilians have borne the brunt of the violence, according to human rights groups. The organisation has consistently been linked with remnants of the Rwandan Hutu militia who carried out the 
, and is believed to share a similar ideology. 
Burundian Hutu extremists have killed 300 civilians in the last two months