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Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
Titre:
Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
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Sommaire:
The bloodiest modern conflict you've never heard of gets a searching appraisal in this exhaustive history. Africanist Prunier follows the 1996-2002 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo through many bewildering twists and turns. Sparked by a Rwandan army incursion to clear out Hutu-dominated refugee camps on the border between the two countries, the conflict dragged in the armies of eight surrounding countries and an alphabet soup of Congolese guerrilla movements and tribal militias; millions died in the fighting and attendant massacres, starvation and disease. Prunier discerns many layers to the upheaval; a conventional struggle for political control of what had been called Zaire, it was also a multisided act of piracy aimed at looting the country's mineral wealth, an outbreak of generations-long ethnic hatreds and a ghastly symptom of Africa's ongoing crisis of weak and illegitimate governments. The author carefully untangles these complexities while offering unsparing assessments of the participants, including a vigorous indictment of Rwanda's Tutsi leaders for using the 1994 genocide as an excuse for their own atrocities. Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier lays bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster - the most under-reported tragedy of the post-Cold War era.
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Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2010
Description matérielle:
xxxviii, 529 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st Oxford University Press paperback.
Table des matières:
Rwanda's mixed season of hope (Jul 1994 - Apr 1995) -- From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (Apr 1995 - Oct 1996) -- The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers (Zaire, Sudanese & Ugandans, Angolan conflict) -- Winning a virtual war (Sept 1996 - May 1997) -- Losing the real peace (Kabila, Luanda/Brazzaville, the DRC, Kivus, May 1997 - Aug 1998) -- A continental war (Aug 1998 - Aug 1999, Kinshasa, Lusaka) -- Sinking into the quagmire (Aug 1999 - Jan 2001, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, MONUC, Mzee) -- Not with a bang, but with a whimper: the war's confused ending (Jan 2001 - Dec 2002) -- From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction (Jan 2003 - Jul 2007) -- Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa -- Appendix I: Seth Sendashonga's murder.
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Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780199754205
Informations de publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.