Africa's world war: Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly epi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees-a third of Rwanda's population-fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractable and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era. |
| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später ersch., unveränd. Nachdr. Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXXVIII, 529 S. Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780195374209 9780199754205 0195374207 |
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
viii
Glossary
xix
Maps
xxiv
Introduction
xxix
1.
Rwanda's mixed season of hope (July
1
994-April
1995) 1
The immediate aftermath
1
The politics of national unity
7
Justice and the killings
10
Rwanda outside Rwanda: the world of the refugee camps
24
The international community's attitudes
29
2.
From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (April 1995-October
1996) 37
The Kibeho crisL·
37
The collapse of the national unity government
42
The refugees and the Kivu cockpit
46
North Kivu: ethnicity and the land conflict
48
South Kivu: the Banyamulenge and the memories of
1965 51
The impact of the
Rwandese
refugees on the Kivus
53
The Burundi factor
59
General Kagame goes to war
67
3.
The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers
73
Into the Zairian vortex
75
The interlopers
80
Sudanese and Ugandans
80
Far from the Great Lakes: the Angolan conflict
88
Standing by, trying to keep out: three uneasy onlookers
99
4.
"Winning a virtual war (September
1
996-May
1997) 113
Rwanda in Zaire: from refugee crisis to international war
113
Laurent-Désiré
Kabila and the birth of AFDL
113
The bogey of the multinational intervention force
116
The refugee exodus
121
The long walk into Kinshasa
126
ÁFRICAS WORLD
WAR
War and diplomacy
126
The mining contracts: myths and realities
137
The fate of the refugees
143
5.
Losing the real peace (May 1997-August
1998) 149
KabiL· in power, a secretive and incoherent leadership
149
Diplomacy and the refugee hsue
154
The economy: an ineffectual attempt at normalization
161
Between Luanda and Brazzaville: the DRC's volatile West
African environment
167
The unquiet East: the Kivus and their neighbors
172
6.
A continental war (August
1
998-August
1999) 181
Commander
Kabarebe
's
failed Blitzkrieg
181
Heading for an African war
187
Kinshasa's friends: godfathers and discreet supporters
187
Kinshasa's foes
193
Fence-sitters and well-wishers
198
Fighting down to a stalemate
203
Behind and around the war: domestic politics, diplomacy and economics
209
Ће
Lusaka "peace
"
charade
223
7.
Sinking into the quagmire (August
1
999-January
2001 ) 227
The war is dead, long live the war
227
The East: confused rebels in confused fighting
227
Westwards: the river wars
231
Rwanda drives south into Katanga
234
The shaky home fronts
235
The Congo: an elusive search for national dialogue while
the economy collapses
235
Angola: the pressure begins to ease off
238
Zimbabwe: trying to make the war pay for itself
239
Rwanda and Uganda: the friendship grows violent
240
The international dimension: giving cad, monitoring the koting,
and waiting for MONUC
243
Mzee's assassination
249
8.
Not with a bang but with a whimper: the war's confused
ending (January 2001-December
2002) 257
Li'lJoseph's new political dispensation
257
Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict
265
The actors start jockeying for position
265
Negotiations, national dialogue, and disarmament in competition
267
vi
CONTENTS
The South
African breakthrough
269
The bumpy road toward a transitional government
274
The economy: slowly crawling out of the abyss
277
The eastern sore: the continental conflict shrinks into sub-regional anarchy
280
9.
From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction
(January 2003-July
2007) 285
The conflict's lingering aftermath (January
2003—
December
2004) 285
The peripheral actors drop off
285
Rwanda and Uganda refuse to give up
290
An attempt at violently upsetting the transition
296
Tottering forward in Kinshasa
300
Slouching toward Bethlehem: the transition slowly turns into reality
(January 2005-November
2006) 303
The pre-electoral struggles
303
DDRRR,
SSR,
and assorted security headaches
305
The elections
309
The morning after syndrome (November 2006—July
2007) 315
The risk of internal political paralysis
315
The economy: donors, debts, and the Great Mining Robbery
316
The east refuses to heal
320
10.
Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of
contemporary Africa
329
The war as an African phenomenon
330
The purely East African origins of the conflagration
330
Antigenocide, the myth of the "new leaders," and the spread
of democracy in Africa: the world projects its own rationale on
the situation
331
The "New Congo," between African renaissance and
African imperialism
333
From crusading to looting: the "new leaders" age quickly
335
The war as seen by the outside world
338
What did all the diplomatic agitation actually achieve?
338
Moral indignation in lieu of political resolve
346
An attempt at a philosophical conclusion
358
Appendix I: Seth Sendashonga 's Murder
365
Notes
369
Bibliography
469
Index
515
vu |
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
viii
Glossary
xix
Maps
xxiv
Introduction
xxix
1.
Rwanda's mixed season of hope (July
1
994-April
1995) 1
The immediate aftermath
1
The politics of national unity
7
Justice and the killings
10
Rwanda outside Rwanda: the world of the refugee camps
24
The international community's attitudes
29
2.
From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (April 1995-October
1996) 37
The Kibeho crisL·
37
The collapse of the national unity government
42
The refugees and the Kivu cockpit
46
North Kivu: ethnicity and the land conflict
48
South Kivu: the Banyamulenge and the memories of
1965 51
The impact of the
Rwandese
refugees on the Kivus
53
The Burundi factor
59
General Kagame goes to war
67
3.
The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers
73
Into the Zairian vortex
75
The interlopers
80
Sudanese and Ugandans
80
Far from the Great Lakes: the Angolan conflict
88
Standing by, trying to keep out: three uneasy onlookers
99
4.
"Winning a virtual war (September
1
996-May
1997) 113
Rwanda in Zaire: from refugee crisis to international war
113
Laurent-Désiré
Kabila and the birth of AFDL
113
The bogey of the multinational intervention force
116
The refugee exodus
121
The long walk into Kinshasa
126
ÁFRICAS WORLD
WAR
War and diplomacy
126
The mining contracts: myths and realities
137
The fate of the refugees
143
5.
Losing the real peace (May 1997-August
1998) 149
KabiL· in power, a secretive and incoherent leadership
149
Diplomacy and the refugee hsue
154
The economy: an ineffectual attempt at normalization
161
Between Luanda and Brazzaville: the DRC's volatile West
African environment
167
The unquiet East: the Kivus and their neighbors
172
6.
A continental war (August
1
998-August
1999) 181
Commander
Kabarebe
's
failed Blitzkrieg
181
Heading for an African war
187
Kinshasa's friends: godfathers and discreet supporters
187
Kinshasa's foes
193
Fence-sitters and well-wishers
198
Fighting down to a stalemate
203
Behind and around the war: domestic politics, diplomacy and economics
209
Ће
Lusaka "peace
"
charade
223
7.
Sinking into the quagmire (August
1
999-January
2001 ) 227
The war is dead, long live the war
227
The East: confused rebels in confused fighting
227
Westwards: the river wars
231
Rwanda drives south into Katanga
234
The shaky home fronts
235
The Congo: an elusive search for national dialogue while
the economy collapses
235
Angola: the pressure begins to ease off
238
Zimbabwe: trying to make the war pay for itself
239
Rwanda and Uganda: the friendship grows violent
240
The international dimension: giving cad, monitoring the koting,
and waiting for MONUC
243
Mzee's assassination
249
8.
Not with a bang but with a whimper: the war's confused
ending (January 2001-December
2002) 257
Li'lJoseph's new political dispensation
257
Diplomacy slowly deconstructs the continental conflict
265
The actors start jockeying for position
265
Negotiations, national dialogue, and disarmament in competition
267
vi
CONTENTS
The South
African breakthrough
269
The bumpy road toward a transitional government
274
The economy: slowly crawling out of the abyss
277
The eastern sore: the continental conflict shrinks into sub-regional anarchy
280
9.
From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction
(January 2003-July
2007) 285
The conflict's lingering aftermath (January
2003—
December
2004) 285
The peripheral actors drop off
285
Rwanda and Uganda refuse to give up
290
An attempt at violently upsetting the transition
296
Tottering forward in Kinshasa
300
Slouching toward Bethlehem: the transition slowly turns into reality
(January 2005-November
2006) 303
The pre-electoral struggles
303
DDRRR,
SSR,
and assorted security headaches
305
The elections
309
The morning after syndrome (November 2006—July
2007) 315
The risk of internal political paralysis
315
The economy: donors, debts, and the Great Mining Robbery
316
The east refuses to heal
320
10.
Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of
contemporary Africa
329
The war as an African phenomenon
330
The purely East African origins of the conflagration
330
Antigenocide, the myth of the "new leaders," and the spread
of democracy in Africa: the world projects its own rationale on
the situation
331
The "New Congo," between African renaissance and
African imperialism
333
From crusading to looting: the "new leaders" age quickly
335
The war as seen by the outside world
338
What did all the diplomatic agitation actually achieve?
338
Moral indignation in lieu of political resolve
346
An attempt at a philosophical conclusion
358
Appendix I: Seth Sendashonga 's Murder
365
Notes
369
Bibliography
469
Index
515
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| spelling | Prunier, Gérard 1942- Verfasser (DE-588)132562634 aut Africa's world war Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe Gérard Prunier Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2009 XXXVIII, 529 S. Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Hier auch später ersch., unveränd. Nachdr. Includes bibliographical references and index From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees-a third of Rwanda's population-fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractable and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era. Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1994-2007 gnd rswk-swf Génocide - Rwanda Géopolitique - Afrique des Grands Lacs Violence politique - Afrique des Grands Lacs Geschichte Politik Genocide Rwanda Geopolitics Africa, Central Political violence Great Lakes Region (Africa) Völkermord in Ruanda (DE-588)4360701-9 gnd rswk-swf Krieg (DE-588)4033114-3 gnd rswk-swf Bürgerkrieg in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo 1997- (DE-588)4747221-2 gnd rswk-swf Afrique des Grands Lacs - Relations interethniques - Aspect politique Congo (République démocratique) - Histoire - 1997- Rwanda - Histoire - 1994 (Guerre civile) - Réfugiés Africa, Central Ethnic relations Political aspects 20th century Congo (Democratic Republic) History 1997- Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Refugees Große Seen Afrika Region (DE-588)4329312-8 gnd rswk-swf Bürgerkrieg in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo 1997- (DE-588)4747221-2 s Geschichte 1994-2007 z DE-604 Große Seen Afrika Region (DE-588)4329312-8 g Krieg (DE-588)4033114-3 s Völkermord in Ruanda (DE-588)4360701-9 s Digitalisierung BSBMuenchen application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016973798&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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