TY - MANSCPT AU - Roessler,Philip G. AU - Verhoeven,Harry TI - Why Comrades Go To War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict SN - 9780190611354 AV - DT658.25 .R64 2016 U1 - 967.5103/3 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political violence KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Ethnic conflict KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - 1997- N1 - 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 ER -