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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091901440 Title: Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe Author: Gérard Prunier Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. ©2009 ISBN/ISSN: 9780199705832 0199705836 OCLC:1091901440

  
  

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Africa's world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe

Author:	Gérard Prunier
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. ©2009
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers an account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier 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 narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world.  Read more...
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Subjects	Genocide -- Rwanda. Political violence -- Great Lakes Region (Africa) Geopolitics -- Africa, Central. View all subjects
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