Following the coup there was much animosity between the two ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. During and directly following the coup between 25,000 and 150,000 people were killed, most of those being Hutu. In response to this there was a Hutu led massacre in which whole families of Tutsis were killed. In retaliation to the Hutu massacre, Major Barhebura, head of the Tutsi majority army led a pogrom against Hutu, in a specific region, in December of 1993. Within several days before Christmas 200-300 people were killed in one village. ("Still Bleeding," Econ., Jan. 8, '94) This has started a cycle of retaliatory violence, as the deaths of people in one tribe led to death of people in the other tribe, and then the cycle starts again. A typical opinion of a member of the Tutsi Militia group, Sans Echec, said that "We will meet violence with violence." ("Burundi on the Brink," Econ, Jl, '95).