Word: rwanda
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...common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral of slain President Laurent Kabila, whom they had backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot in his office by a bodyguard, he was bundled onto a plane bound for an emergency room in far-off Zimbabwe rather than being sent for treatment...
...Joseph, as head of state. But nobody believes there's much traction in that outcome, since the 31-year-old military commander is viewed as simply another inept family appointee of the slain strongman, with no greater support base than his widely reviled father. Rebel movements backed by Rwanda and Uganda control half of the country, and they're urging Kabila the younger to return to a peace agreement consistently sabotaged by his father. The U.S. and other Western powers are scrambling to restrain Uganda and Rwanda, as well as Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia, which fought on Kabila's side...
...regional powers fought each other to a standstill (and in the case of allies Rwanda and Uganda, occasionally fought each other, too, for control of the spoils in the regions they occupied), and African and foreign diplomats have been trying ever since to implement a peace agreement that would have them withdraw and restore some form of democratic rule in Congo. And although Kabila was most consistently blamed - even by his allies - for wrecking the peace process, it's far from clear that any of his interventionist neighbors will ultimately let go of their stake in a country where, despite...
...early in 1997 when Kabila turned on those who'd brought him to power. The former guerrilla leader tapped into resentment of his "outsider" regime in Kinshasa by initiating a pogrom against Rwandan Tutsis - the very army that had transformed him from a minor regional insurgent into the president. Rwanda had installed Kabila precisely because Mobutu had provided shelter to the Hutu genocidaires who had killed a million of their Tutsi countrymen in 1994, and Kabila had failed to deliver on promises to stop the Hutu gunmen operating from bases inside the Congo. When he turned on the Rwandans...
...criminals. The International Criminal Court, which was established by treaty in 1998 and can begin work only after 60 countries have accepted its jurisdiction, will try cases only if countries are unwilling or unable to try them locally. This is unlike the existing temporary tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which may take cases away from local courts as they see fit. The International Criminal Court respects the idea that war criminals should be tried locally if countries are willing and able to do so; it acts as an incentive for local trials to be held but will serve...