Word: mobutuism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps that is because unlike the women, whose thoughts we hear, the men are observed only from the outside. It is also true that the novel's second half is subdued in tone. The author has made her point, and the rest is told almost as afterword. The rapacious Mobutu Sese Seko is in power, thanks to U.S. influence. And the Price women, their calamitous adventure mostly behind them, do what people do: get married, or not; follow a profession, or not; grow older...
Recalling a comment by a State Department spokesperson that "Suharto is our kind of guy" he compared the ex-Indonesian president to other U.S.-supported dictators including the late president Mobutu Seseko of Zaire and the late Shah of Iran...
...office 15 months ago, the question wasn't "Who will be the new President of the Congo?" but rather, "What does the Vice President of Rwanda want?" That man--PAUL KAGAME, who is also the Rwandan Minister of Defense--is considered to be the mastermind behind both President MOBUTU SESE SEKO's removal from power in 1997 and what looks to be Kabila's political demise. What Kagame seems to want is a loose federation of autonomous regions based on ethnicity, which would protect his Tutsi brothers in eastern Congo. If that is what Kagame wants, it might provide...
...office 15 months ago, the question wasn't "Who will be the new President of the Congo?" but rather, "What does the Vice President of Rwanda want?" That man--Paul Kagame, who is also the Rwandan Minister of Defense--is considered to be the mastermind behind both President Mobutu Sese Seko's removal from power in 1997 and what looks to be Kabila's political demise. What Kagame seems to want is a loose federation of autonomous regions based on ethnicity, which would protect his Tutsi brothers in eastern Congo. If that is what Kagame wants, it might provide...
...Kabila had no agenda except power," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "He spent almost 30 years in opposition and Mobutu's demise took him completely by surprise. Once he achieved power he didn't know what to do with it." It was his failure to clamp down on Hutu rebels using eastern Congo as a base from which to attack Rwanda that prompted Kabila's erstwhile sponsors to seek his ouster. "When Kabila last week began recruiting 12-year-olds to fight off these seasoned, well-trained, well-equipped fighters, it was clear that he had little chance of holding...