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The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality

By Thomas Turner

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1842776886, 9781842776889, 9781848131248
Open Library ID
OL8927806M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1103418 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book, by a lifelong authority on the Congo, makes sense of the world's least reported and least understood major war. Since 1996 successive waves of armed conflict in the Congo have left behind at least 3 million casualties, overwhelmingly civilian. Turner throws new light on partisan and economically self-interested military interventions by Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia. And he cuts through the highly tendentious historical myths that have been used to make sense of the unfolding catastrophe both in the region and beyond. The book also indicates the changes required of the international community, neighboring African states and Congolese political leaders if this hugely resource-rich region of Central Africa is to build peace and economic security for its people.

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