Why Comrades Go To War : Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict /
Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict
Philip Roessler, Harry Verhoeven.
- xix, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-447) and index.
Introduction -- Liberation, counter-revolution and war -- Winning the war, losing the peace: the liberation of Zaire and the outbreak of Africa's Great War -- The gathering storm: Mobutu's Zaire, the African Liberation Project and the Rwandan patriotic front -- Comrades preparing for war: the alliance to overthrow Mobutu -- The campaign: the sprint to Kinshasa and the Rwandan-Angolan Cold War -- The post-Mobutu order and politics after liberation -- The unraveling: internal and external strains on the Alliance - Back against the wall: the return of the Génocidaire threat -- Kabila's pre-emptive stike: the Kinshasa endgame -- Comrades go to war: triangular diplomacy between Kinshasa, Kigali and Luanda -- Why comrades go to war.
9780190611354 9780190864552 0190611359
2017287329
Since 1900
Political violence--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century. Ethnic conflict--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century. Ethnic conflict. Political violence. Politics and government.