The Congo-Zaire experience, 1960-98 / Edgar O'Ballance.
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نصالناشر:New York : St. Martin's Press ; 2000الناشر:London : Macmillan, 2000وصف:xxv, 205 pages : maps ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312227957 (hbk)
- 0333747917
- DT658 O28 2000
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DT658 O28 2000 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000121109 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Belgian Congo -- 2. Independence and Clashing Personalities -- 3. Lumumba the Legend: 1960-61 -- 4. ONUC versus Katanga and Others: 1961-92 -- 5. Prime Minister Tshombe -- 6. The NLC in Retreat -- 7. Plots, Mutiny and Revolt -- 8. The First Invasion of Shaba: 1977 -- 9. The Second Invasion of Shaba -- 10. The Single Party State -- 11. Genocide in Burundi and Rwanda -- 12. The End of the Mobutu Era -- 13. The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 14. Bleak Prospects.
"This book describes the experience of a huge Central African colonial country, suddenly plunged into independence in 1960, the first Prime Minster, Patrice Lumumba, being beset by rivals for central power and bouts of separatism. Lumumba was murdered in obscure circumstances. A UN peace-keeping force was rushed to the Congo to prevent the mineral-rich Katanga province breaking away from the republic.
Hammarskjold, the UN leader, also died, on a mysterious mission on an aircraft (packed with arms and ammunition) that crashed.".
"After the departure of the United Nations, warlords struggled against one another until Mobutu triumphed, remaining executive president for many years, being directly supported by the USA and certain Western states during the Cold War period. Mobutu fended off his opponents, unearthed plots against him and defeated separatist invasions. Mobutu's name became synonymous with graft, corruption and skulduggery.
In 1997 a Tutsi army supported by Rwandan and Ugandan allies, declared war on Kaliba, his successor, who had meanwhile gained the military support of Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Thus two Central African coalitions, hostile towards each other, both with predatory intentions, have internationalized the brewing civil war in the Congo."--BOOK JACKET.
