Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1 A Region in Turmoil
- 2 The ‘War of Liberation’
- 3 Massacre of the Rwandan Refugees
- 4 The Fall of the Mobutist State
- 5 Congo: Waiting for Another War
- 6 Impasse in Rwanda and Burundi
- 7 ‘The First African World War’
- 8 Negotiating the Transition
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Sources on the killings of Rwandan refugees in early 1997
- Appendix 2 Chronology
- Appendix 3 List of abbreviations
- References
- Index
Appendix 2 - Chronology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- 1 A Region in Turmoil
- 2 The ‘War of Liberation’
- 3 Massacre of the Rwandan Refugees
- 4 The Fall of the Mobutist State
- 5 Congo: Waiting for Another War
- 6 Impasse in Rwanda and Burundi
- 7 ‘The First African World War’
- 8 Negotiating the Transition
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Sources on the killings of Rwandan refugees in early 1997
- Appendix 2 Chronology
- Appendix 3 List of abbreviations
- References
- Index
Summary
1993
21 October. Coup d'état in Burundi: President Ndadaye killed, beginning of civil war.
1994
April–July. Resumption of the civil war in Rwanda; genocide against the Tutsi by extremist Hutu, crimes against humanity and war crimes by RPF; RPF seizes power; 2 million Hutu, including defeated army and militia, flee to neighbouring countries, Zaire in particular.
Fall. First signs of authoritarian rule, human rights abuse and ‘Tutsification’ in Rwanda.
1995
• Fall. Large-scale violence in North Kivu: Hutu vs. Hunde and Tutsi; Hunde vs. Tutsi and Hutu.
• Hit-and-run operations by Rwandan Hutu refugees, operating from Zaire, against targets in Rwanda.
June–July. Banyamulenge in South Kivu increasingly victimised and their organisation, Milima, banned.
25 July. Coup d'état returns Major Buyoya to power in Burundi.
September. Start of the ‘Banyamulenge rebellion’ supported by Rwanda.
October. Creation in Kigali of the AFDL, with Laurent-Désiré Kabila as its spokesman; U.S. support for the ‘rebellion’; France sides with Kinshasa.
October. Rwandan refugee camps attacked in North and South Kivu. Uganda joins the invasion of Zaire.
18 October. Fall of Uvira.
28 October. Fall of Bukavu.
31 October. Fall of Goma.
4–5 November. Nairobi-I regional summit on the Zairean crisis.
November. Buffer zone established along Rwandan and Burundian borders. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees ‘repatriated’, while hundreds of thousands of others flee westwards.
November-December. Aborted attempts at launching an international ‘military-humanitarian’ intervention to protect the Rwandan refugees.
16–17 December. Nairobi-II regional summit.
17 December. Mobutu returns to Kinshasa from France, where he was undergoing medical treatment.
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- The Great African WarCongo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006, pp. 291 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009