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Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continenta
Prunier, Gerard.
Adult Nonfiction DT658.26 .P78 2009
Prunier, Gerard.
Adult Nonfiction DT658.26 .P78 2009
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| Contents | Page |
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| Abbreviations | p. viii |
| Glossary | p. xix |
| Maps | p. xxiv |
| Introduction | p. xxix |
| 1 - Rwanda's mixed season of hope (July 1994-April 1995) | p. 1 |
| The immediate aftermath | p. 1 |
| The politics of national unity | p. 7 |
| Justice and the killings | p. 10 |
| Rwanda outside Rwanda: the world of the refugee camps | p. 24 |
| The international community's attitudes | p. 29 |
| 2 - From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (April 1995-October 1996) | p. 37 |
| The Kibeho crisis | p. 37 |
| The collapse of the national unity government | p. 42 |
| The refugees and the Kivu cockpit | p. 46 |
| North Kivu: ethnicity and the land conflict | p. 48 |
| South Kivu: the Banyamulenge and the memories of 1965 | p. 51 |
| The impact of the Rwandese refugees on the Kivus | p. 53 |
| The Burundi factor | p. 59 |
| General Kagame goes to war | p. 67 |
| 3 - The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers | p. 73 |
| Into the Zairian vortex | p. 75 |
| The interlopers | p. 80 |
| Sudanese and Ugandans | p. 80 |
| Far from the Great Lakes: the Angolan conflict | p. 88 |
| Standing by, trying to keep out: three uneasy onlookers | p. 99 |
| 4 - Winning a virtual war (September 1996-May 1997) | p. 113 |
| Rwanda in Zaire: from refugee crisis to international war | p. 113 |
| Laurent-Desire Kabila and the birth of AFDL | p. 113 |
| The bogey of the multinational intervention force | p. 116 |
| The refugee exodus | p. 121 |
| The long walk into Kinshasa | p. 126 |
| War and diplomacy | p. 126 |
| The mining contracts: myths and realities | p. 137 |
| The fate of the refugees | p. 143 |
| 5 - Losing the real peace (May 1997-August 1998) | p. 149 |
| Kabila in power: a secretive and incoherent leadership | p. 149 |
| Diplomacy and the refugee issue | p. 154 |
| The economy: an ineffectual attempt at normalization | p. 161 |
| Between Luanda and Brazzaville: the DRC's volatile West African environment | p. 167 |
| The unquiet East: the Kivus and their neighbors | p. 172 |
| 6 - A continental war (August 1998-August 1999) | p. 181 |
| Commander Kabarebe's failed Blitzkrieg | p. 181 |
| Heading for an African war | p. 187 |
| Kinshasa's friends: godfathers and discreet supporters | p. 187 |
| Kinshasa's foes | p. 193 |
| Fence-sitters and well-wishers | p. 198 |
| Fighting down to a stalemate | p. 203 |
| Behind and around the war: domestic politics, diplomacy and economics | p. 209 |
| The Lusaka "peace" charade | p. 223 |
| 7 - Sinking into the quagmire (August 1999-January 2001) | p. 227 |
| The war is dead, long live the war | p. 227 |
| The East: confused rebels in confused fighting | p. 227 |
| Westwards: the river wars | p. 231 |
| Rwanda drives south into Katanga | p. 234 |
| The shaky home fronts | p. 235 |
| The Congo: an elusive search for national dialogue while the economy collapses | p. 235 |
| Angola: the pressure begins to ease off | p. 238 |
| Zimbabwe: trying to make the war pay for itself | p. 239 |
| Rwanda and Uganda: the friendship grows violent | p. 240 |
| The international dimension: giving aid, monitoring the looting, and waiting for MONUC | p. 243 |
| Mzee's assassination | p. 249 |
| 8 - Not with a bang but with a whimper: the war's confused ending (January 2001-December 2002) | p. 257 |
| Li'l Joseph's new political dispensation | p. 257 |
| Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict | p. 265 |
| The actors start jockeying for position | p. 265 |
| Negoitations, national dialogue, and disarmament in competition | p. 267 |
| The South African breakthrough | p. 269 |
| The bumpy road toward a transitional government | p. 274 |
| The economy: slowly crawling out of the abyss | p. 277 |
| The eastern sore: the continental conflict shrinks into sub-regional anarchy | p. 280 |
| 9 - From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction (January 2003-July 2007) | p. 285 |
| The conflict's lingering aftermath (January 2003-December 2004) | p. 285 |
| The peripheral actors drop off | p. 285 |
| Rwanda and Uganda refuse to give up | p. 290 |
| An attempt at violently upsetting the transition | p. 296 |
| Tottering forward in Kinshasa | p. 300 |
| Slouching toward Bethlehem: the transition slowly turns into reality (January 2005-November 2006) | p. 303 |
| The pre-electoral struggles | p. 303 |
| DDRRR, SSR, and assorted security headaches | p. 305 |
| The elections | p. 309 |
| The morning after syndrome (November 2006-July 2007) | p. 315 |
| The risk of internal political paralysis | p. 315 |
| The economy: donors, debts, and the Great Mining Robbery | p. 316 |
| The east refuses to heal | p. 320 |
| 10 - Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa | p. 329 |
| The war as an African phenomenon | p. 330 |
| The purely East African origins of the conflagration | p. 330 |
| Antigenocide, the myth of the "new leaders," and the spread of democracy in Africa: the world projects its own rationale on the situation | p. 331 |
| The "New Congo," between African renaissance and African imperialism | p. 333 |
| From crusading to looting: the "new leaders" age quickly | p. 335 |
| The war as seen by the outside world | p. 338 |
| What did all the diplomatic agitation actually achieve? | p. 338 |
| Moral indignation in lieu of political resolve | p. 346 |
| An attempt at a philosophical conclusion | p. 358 |
| Appendix I - Seth Sendashonga's Murder | p. 365 |
| Notes | p. 369 |
| Bibliography | p. 469 |
| Index | p. 515 |
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