Why comrades go to war: liberation politics and the outbreak of Africa's deadliest conflict
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
1. INTRODUCTION
THE EXPULSION ORDER
AFRICA'S FRATRICIDAL WAR
THE ARGUMENT
APPROACH
CONTRIBUTIONS
PLAN OF THE BOOK
PARTI
THE ARGUMENT
2. LIBERATION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND WAR
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN AFRICAN HISTORY
PAN-AFRICANISM
SOCIALISM
NATIONALISM, MASS POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND THE ARMED
STRUGGLE
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: FROM LIBERATION TO NEO-LIBERATION
MOVEMENTS
LIBERATION: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
DEFINING AND MEASURING LIBERATION REGIMES
CLASSIFYING LIBERATION GOVERNMENTS IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA
A THEORY OF LIBERATION AND REGIONALIZED CIVIL WAR IN
POST-INDEPENDENCE AFRICA
PERIOD 1: COLONIALISM
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CONTENTS
PERIOD 2: THE SHOCK OF WORLD WAR II AND THE RISE OF LIBERATION
REGIMES IN AFRICA 48
PERIOD 3: LIBERATION REVOLUTIONS, REGIONAL POLARIZATION AND
INTERNATIONALIZED CIVIL WAR 50
THE CONGO CRISIS AS EXEMPLAR 52
CONCLUSION: THE END OF REGIONAL POLARIZATION, PEACE AND THE PUZZLE
OF AFRICA'S DEADLIEST CONFLICT 5 5
3. WINNING THE WAR, LOSING THE PEACE: THE LIBERATION OF ZAIRE AND
THE OUTBREAK OF AFRICA'S GREAT WAR 59
EXISTING EXPLANATIONS 63
STATE COLLAPSE AND A WAR FOR CONGO'S NATURAL RESOURCES 63
ALL ROADS LEAD TO MOBUTU: CONFLICT EXTERNALIZATION IN
CENTRAL AFRICA 67
DOMESTIC RESISTANCE TO FOREIGN INTERVENTION 70
FLEETING LIBERATION: THE PERSONALIZATION OF POWER AND AFRICA'S
GREAT WAR 72
OUR ARGUMENT: SOWING THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION 76
PART II
THE WAR TO END ALL WARS
4. THE GATHERING STORM: MOBUTU'S ZAIRE, THE AFRICAN LIBERATION PROJECT
AND THE RWANDAN PATRIOTIC FRONT 85
THE STATE OF CONGO: MOBUTU AND "NEO-COLONIAL AFRICA" 87
THE PAN-AFRICANIST LIBERATION PROJECT: TANZANIA, UGANDA AND BEYOND 98
THE BANYARWANDA QUESTION AND THE RISE TO POWER OF THE RWANDAN
PATRIOTIC FRONT 108
THE LONG SHADOW OF COLONIAL HISTORY 109
THE RPF LIBERATION PROJECT 113
THE WAR OF LIBERATION 119
POST- GENOCIDE RWANDA 124
HOW THE 1994 CATACLYSM SHAPED THE FRONT 126
GOVERNING A SCORCHED LAND 129
THE REFUGEE CAMPS IN ZAIRE 133
CONCLUSION 140
5. COMRADES PREPARING FOR WAR: THE ALLIANCE TO OVERTHROW MOBUTU 143
THE RPF'S DILEMMA, LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA AND THE ROAD TO WAR 145
THE MZEE AND THE RPF: THE GENESIS OF A PARTNERSHIP 151
CONTENTS
WASHINGTON AND THE "NEW BULL IN CENTRAL AFRICA" 157
THE PAN-AFRICANISTS COME ON BOARD: THE ROLE OF ERITREA, ETHIOPIA,
TANZANIA AND UGANDA 160
UGANDA 163
TANZANIA, ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA 170
CONCLUSION: THE ALLIANCE DES FORCES DEMOCRATIQUES POUR LA LIBERATION
DU CONGO-ZAIRE AND THE LEMERA AGREEMENT 176
THE CAMPAIGN: THE SPRINT TO KINSHASA AND THE RWANDAN-ANGOLAN
COLD WAR 181
ZERO HOUR: THE INVASION OF ZAIRE AND THE "LIBERATION" OF THE REFUGEE
CAMPS 183
POINT OF NO RETURN; THE FINAL PREPARATIONS 185
DISMANTLING THE CAMPS 189
ANGOLA ENTERS THE RING: THE PAN-AFRICANIST ALLIANCE EXPANDS 194
ANGOLA AND THE PAN-AFRICANIST CONTEXT 195
KILLING THE WOUNDED ANIMAL: THE MPLA JOINS THE WAR EFFORT 198
WASHINGTON'S "GREEN LIGHT": LIMITED BUT INFLUENTIAL US SUPPORT
FORTHEAFDL 202
THE MARCH TO KINSHASA: DIVERGING PRIORITIES AND EMERGING FAULT-LINES 206
DEATH IN THE RAINFOREST 207
THE RISE OF THE "FAMILLE KATANGAISE": THE AFDL'S CHANGING
COMPOSITION 215
THE RWANDAN-ANGOLAN COLD WAR: TSHIKAPA AND THE FIRST
CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE COMRADES 222
CONCLUSION: THE AFDL AND THE FALL OF KINSHASA 228
PART III
FROM TRIUMPH TO TRAGEDY: THE PATH TO
AFRICA'S GREAT WAR
THE POST-MOBUTU ORDER AND POLITICS AFTER LIBERATION 233
BUILDING POST-MOBUTU CONGO: ELITE ACCOMMODATION AND ORDER
CREATION 236
THE RPF STAYS ON 236
THE FATHER, THE SON AND HIS GENERAL 239
FROM LIBERATION MOVEMENT TO SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT: KABILA'S
BALANCINGACT 243
THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPOILS AND THE NEW CABINET 243
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CONTENTS
THE REVOLUTION AND ITS FOREIGN BACKERS 247
GOING IT ALONE: THE MZEE CONSOLIDATES POWER 251
KABILA'S REFUSAL TO ENTERTAIN THE "CHARADE OF DEMOCRACY" 252
THE POLITICAL ASSASSINATION OF MASASU 257
CONCLUSION 260
INTERLUDE: A RWANDAN FOLKTALE 263
8. THE UNRAVELING: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STRAINS ON THE ALLIANCE 267
THE CONSTRAINTS OF STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE 271
CAT-AND-MOUSE OVER THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATION 271
THE LOGIC AND COSTS OF STONEWALLING 275
KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE 279
KATANGIZATION AND THE CREATION OF A PARALLEL ARMY 286
CO-ETHNICITY AND THE POWER OF NETWORKS 288
BALANCING AGAINST THE RPF: KABILA CREATES A PARALLEL ARMY 293
THE VOLCANO RUMBLES: NEW AND OLD GRIEVANCES IN EASTERN CONGO 297
CONCLUSION 301
9. BACK AGAINST THE WALL: THE RETURN OF THE GE'NOCIDAIRE THREAT 305
THE EX-FAR/INTERAHAMWE REGROUP, NOVEMBER 1996-MAY 1997 307
THE NORTH KIVU MAQUIS 308
ZERO SCREENING: REPATRIATION OF THE REFUGEES AND ITS SECURITY
IMPLICATIONS 311
FIGHTING THE ABACENGEZI: THE INSURGENCY AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY 316
THE INSURGENT NETWORK OF THE ARMEE POUR LA LIBERATION DU
RWANDA 317
A FALTERING PUSH-BACK 320
CONGO, KABILA AND THE GENOCIDAIRES 324
THE GROWING REGIONAL STAKES OF THE INSURGENCY 326
SHAKING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL ? KABILA'S IMPOSSIBLE WAGER 330
CONCLUSION: THE NORTHWEST INSURGENCY AND THE ROAD TO A SECOND
CONGO WAR 333
10. KABILA'S PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: THE KINSHASA ENDGAME 337
OUR MAN IN HAVANA: MZEE GOES TO CUBA 339
FAILED ARMY REFORM AND THE SACKING OF JAMES KABAREBE 339
THE POWER VACUUM BACK HOME 342
THE EXPULSION ORDER 345
A HOT JULY NIGHT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE 345
BETRAYED BY OUR COMRADES: THE RPF PULLS OUT 348
CONTENTS
THE CONSPIRACY: FROM "PLAN A" TO "PLAN B"
KAGAME AND KABAREBE S PREPARATIONS FOR REGIME CHANGE
IN KINSHASA
DROLE DE GUERRE: THE RUN UP TO AUGUST 2,1998
AUGUST 2, 1998: THE REBELLION-CUM-INVASION OF CONGO
CONCLUSION: FROM ALLIANCE BREAKDOWN TO EXPULSION ORDER AND
VIOLENT CONFLICT
11. COMRADES GO TO WAR: TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY BETWEEN KINSHASA,
KIGALI AND LUANDA
FROM THE KITONA BLITZKRIEG TO ANGOLAN INTERVENTION
THE SHADOW OF THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR
TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY
ANGOLAN WEARINESS
COURTSHIP AND DISTRUST IN AUGUST 1998
THE ANGOLAN DECISION TO GO TO WAR
CONCLUSION: "IN TOTAL WAR YOU WILL EVEN SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL"
PART IV
CONCLUSION
12. WHY COMRADES GO TO WAR
THE MZEE IS DEAD
WHY COMRADES WENT TO WAR
THE WAR TO END ALL WARS
THE TRAGEDY OF AFRICA'S GREAT WAR
THE END OF THE PAN-AFRICANIST LIBERATION PROJECT: A REQUIEM
APPENDIX: METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
ON THE ELITE INTERVIEWS OFWHY COMRADES GO TO WAR
LIST OF INTERVIEWEES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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