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Authors: Michela Wrong
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (35 page)
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Brussels
Royal Palace, Laeken
RPF
see
Rwandese Patriotic Front
Rwanda
death of Habyarimana
and France
genocide of 1994
Kabila's new Congolese army
refugees
Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF)
Â
Sakombi Inongo
Saolona, Bemba
âSape, La'/sapeurs
SARM
Savigny, Switzerland
Savimbi, Jonas
Savorgnan de Brazza, Count Pierre
Schramme, Jean
Senghor, Leopold
Service Nationale d'Intelligence et de Protection (SNIP)
Shaba
see
Katanga
Shinkolobwe mines, Katanga
Shultz, George
Sierra Leone
Simpson, Daniel
Smalto, Francesco
Societé Minière du Bakwanga (MIBA)
Society of Ambiences and Persons of Elegance
see
Sape, La
South Africa
mercenaries
Truth Commission
South Korea
Sovereign National Conference (CNS)
Soviet Union
activity in Brussels
diplomats ejected from the Congo
military aid to the Congo
perestroika
plans for global communist expansion
Sozacom
Speke, John
Stanley, Henry Morton
The Congo and the founding of its free state
Through the Dark Continent
Stanleyville
see also
Kisangani
Stengers, Professor Jean
Stockwell, John
Switzerland
Â
Tanzania
Telecel
Templesman, Maurice
Tindemanns, Leo
Togo
Tokyo, Zairean embassy
Toure, Sekou
Training and Research Reactor for Isotope Production General Atomic (TRIGA)
Tshisekedi, Etienne
Tshisekedi province
Tshombe, Moïse Kapenda
recruits âles affreux'
Tutsis
Ubangi river
Uganda
Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK)
Union of Social and Political Democracy
UNITA (Uniao Nacional para la Independencia Total de Angola)
United Nations
death of Hammarskjöld
Lumumba alienates
and rights of the handicapped
sanctions
Security Council
troops land in Leopoldville
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United States
and Angola
distances itself from Congo
fundamentalist sects
intervention in Zaire
Manhattan Project
mercenaries
Mobutu's children in
National Security Council
Nguz testifies against M
Senate Committee hearing
and the Soviet Union
State Department
Treasury
uranium deals
and the Zairean army
University of Kinshasa
Uvira
Â
Victoria, Lake
Villa del Mar, Roquebrune Cap Martin
Virunga National Park
Vundwawe Te Pemako, Professor
Â
Wapenhans, Willi
Wemba, Papa
Wolfensohn, James
World Bank
Â
Yakoma tribe
Yale, Seti
Yemo, Marie Madeleine (M's mother)
Yezu, Kitenge
Yoshad
Â
Zaire (1971-97)
and Angola
authenticity
bureaucracy
declared a multiparty state (1990)
economy
the flag
government reshuffles
inflation
an international pariah
M appropriates plantations
M's aims
name changed to
name eradicated
the âowls'
radicalisation
rebel movement
refugee crisis
retreat of Zairean forces
UNITA uses as rear base
see also
Belgian Congo; Congo (1960-71); Congo (1997-); Congo Free State
Zaire river
see
Congo river
Zairean army
equipment
holds Zaire hostage
and Hutu extremists
the Inseparable Four
Kamanyola division
looting
M swears in his officers
M's role
Ngbanda's critique
the power of the generals
raison d'être
recruitment
retreat of
riots
series of defeats
training
tribalisation
see also
Congolese army
Zaireanisation
Zambia
Zanzibar
Ziegler, Jean
Zimbabwe
Michela Wrong spent six years in Africa as a foreign correspondent, covering events for Reuters, the BBC, and the
Financial Times
. She is now based in London.
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR. KURTZ
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EPub Edition © JANUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061863615
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wrong, Michela.
In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz : living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu's Congo / Michela Wrong.â1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-06-018880-4
10 9 8 7 6 5
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