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by Jason Stearns


  as site of Ugandan rebellion against Amin

  supports, withdraws support of, L. Kabila

  Tavernier, Christian

  Tembele, Yangandawele

  Tenke Fungurume mine

  Terry, Fiona

  Tingi-Tingi, Zaire

  and aid-to-killers concept

  conditions and suffering of locals

  massacre

  Tshisekedi, Etienne

  under Kabila’s regime

  as Mobutu’s prime minister

  public support for

  reduced to marginal figure

  Tutsi as ethnic group

  as elite in North Kivu, denied citizenship

  flee from Hutu pogroms (1961–1962)

  flee to Rwanda (1995–1996)

  origins linked to biblical theory

  targeted by genocide

  See also Anti-Tutsi ideology; Banyamulenge (Congolese Tutsi)

  Tutsi–Hutu conflicts

  background

  with class-based identities

  ethnic polarization fails to explain violence

  Uganda

  history of discord with Rwandans

  and Kagame

  first Congo war: coalition overthrows Mobutu

  second Congo war: drops Kabila, backs Bemba

  second Congo war: battles Rwandans

  use of donor aid

  UN accusations of plundering

  Wamba’s new rebellion fails

  withdraws troops from Congo

  Umutesi, Beatrice

  in refugee camps

  flees across Congo

  on injustices

  UNITA

  United Nations

  evacuate Tutsi from Bukavu

  –French mission stalls Hutu flight

  investigators not allowed in DRC

  massacre investigations

  and refugee camps in Zaire

  report on rapings

  settle Rwandans into Congo (1959–1964)

  troops deployed in Kivus

  United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

  United Nations Multi-National Task Force

  United Nations peacekeeping mission

  United States

  embassy in Kinshasa stormed

  new relations with J. Kabila

  and refugees in camps

  tells Mobutu to step down

  See also CIA

  Wamba dia Wamba, Ernest

  background

  and end of Rwandan–Uganda alliance

  as RCD leader, ousted from RCD

  as victim of own idealism

  forms, fails with, new Kisangani rebellion

  War of Liberation

  Winter, Philip

  World Bank

  Yav Nawej

  Youth militias

  of Banyamulenge

  Congolese recruits trained by AFDL

  Interahamwe, Impuzamugambi

  of L. Kabila

  Zahidi Ngoma

  Zahidi Ngoma, Arthur

  Zaire, Republic of (1971–1997)

  in Cold War, West provides military aid, training

  increasing hostilities to Tutsi

  under Mobutu, falls to Kabila

  Zairian army of Mobutu

  balkanized, weakened

  commanders as corrupt

  competent officers executed by Mobutu

  massacre Banyamulenge

  with mercenaries, fails to defend Kisangani

  rarely receive salaries

  reasons for losing first Congo war

  sell weapons to Rwandan army

  terrorizes locals while fleeing Rwandans

  Zimbabwe

  backs Rwandans’ overthrow of Mobutu

  supports L. Kabila (second Congo war)

  drops L. Kabila (2000)

  Zvinavashe, Vitalis

  Jason K. Stearns has worked on the conflict in the Congo for the past ten years, most recently as the head of a special United Nations panel investigating Congolese rebel groups. He first traveled to the Congo in 2001 to work for a local human rights group in the border town of Bukavu, which was then at the epicenter of the war. He later worked for the United Nations peacekeeping operation and as a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. His journalism and opinion pieces have appeared in the Economist, Africa Confidential, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He is also a regular guest on the BBC, Radio France International, NPR, and CNN. He writes the blog “Congo Siasa” and is completing a PhD at Yale University.

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