 The situation worsened when the first elected Burundian president, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, was assassinated by the Burundian Tutsi-dominated army in October 1993.In Burundi, a fierce civil war then erupted between Tutsi and Hutu following the army's massacre.This conflict spilled over the border into Rwanda and destabilized the fragile Rwandan accords.