Download Africa World War Congo the Rwandan Genocide and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier 9780199754205 Books
Download Africa World War Congo the Rwandan Genocide and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier 9780199754205 Books Download As PDF : Africa World War Congo the Rwandan Genocide and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier 9780199754205 Books The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of
