TY - BOOK ID - 234188 TI - Africa's world war: Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe PY - 2009 SN - 9780195374209 9780199754205 0199754209 0195374207 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Internal politics KW - History of Africa KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - anno 1990-1999 KW - Congo KW - Great Lakes Region [Africa] KW - Genocide KW - Political violence KW - Geopolitics KW - Génocide KW - Violence politique KW - Géopolitique KW - Since 1900 KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Rwanda KW - Africa, Central KW - Congo (République démocratique) KW - Afrique centrale KW - History KW - Refugees. KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects KW - Histoire KW - Réfugiés KW - Relations interethniques KW - Aspect politique KW - Génocide KW - Géopolitique KW - Congo (République démocratique) KW - Réfugiés KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - World politics KW - Africa, Equatorial KW - Central Africa KW - Equatorial Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:234188 AB - From the Publisher: 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 extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly 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 riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era. ER -