Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Preface -- Maps -- Chapter 1: A Region Awash In Violence -- The Mobutist State: Bula Matari Ascendant -- Sidebar -- A Draft Dodger Up Against The Cia And Catholic Clerics -- Simbas, Mercs And The Cia -- Enter Che Guevara -- The Katanga Tigers: Shaba I (1977) And Shaba Ii (1978) -- Rwanda: The Wild Card -- The Ground Is Shifting -- The Banyamulenge Rebellion -- The Congo Kill Zone -- Switching Sides -- The Mobutist Legacy The Emergence Of Proxies -- Chapter 2: Rwanda 1959-1962 : Where It All Began -- Sins Of Omission -- A Peasant Revolt Gone Awry -- A Man With A Mission: Orchestrating Regime Change -- The Coup Of Gitarama -- The Fallout -- Chapter 3: Burundi 1972 : A Genocide Too Far? -- A Troubled Transition -- Rising Ethnic Tensions -- April 1972: The Hutu Revolt -- The Genocidal Response -- An Unanticipated Invitation -- Revisionist Takes -- The Bane Of A Binary Frame? -- The Assassination Of Melchior Ndadaye: Murder As A Game Changer -- Intra-mural Discords -- Nkurunziza's Ambivalent Legacy The Orphans' Revenge -- The Ndayishimiye Enigma -- Chapter 4: The View From Uganda : Refugee Warriors At The Gates -- Inyenzi And Refugee Warriors -- The Flight To Rwanda -- And Back -- The Breakthrough -- The Rising Tide Of Hutu Radicalism -- Enters Rusatira -- An Invitation That Turned Sour -- The Backlash Of Multi-party Competition -- Spies And Informants: The Ibyitso Threat -- Ndadaye's Assassination And The Pawa Split -- Chapter 5: Mass Murders In Rwanda : Unhealable Wounds -- Non-starters -- Fresh Insights -- The Revolution Undone -- The Crash That Lit The Tinder What Is The Evidence Pointing To The Responsibility Of The Rpf? -- France's Role Re-examined -- The Other Mass Murder -- Conspiracies Of Silence -- How Can One Account For Such An Extraordinary Cover Up? -- The Ictr On Trial -- Crime Without Punishment -- Chapter 6: Concluding Thoughts : Lessons Learned (and Unlearned) -- The Language Of Politics -- The Politics Of Language -- Inequality And Democracy -- Seismic Events And Why They Matter -- Refugees: The Plight Of The Unwanted -- The Claims Of Ethnic Memories -- A Tangle Of Conflicted Legacies -- Memento Mori -- References -- Index Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Electronic Reproduction. London Available Via World Wide Web.