Congolese WarSocial Studies

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Thesis Statement

• «The new powers in The Democratic Republic of Congo are not much better than the previous goverment before the Civil War.»

First Congo War

• Mobutu Sese Seko• 1996• Rwandan Genocide• Great Lakes Refugee Crisis • Invasion by Rwanda • Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Second Congo War

• Proxy War• Lusaka Peace Accord• Assassination • Joseph Kabila• Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo

(FARDC, Armed Forces of the DRC),Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), Maï-Maï Sheka, and M23.

UN Response

• MONUC (United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

After-Math

• M-23 Armed group• Un Forces• Instability• Human Rights Violations

Bibliography

• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/aftermath-of-war-in-congo-kills-45000-each-month-772347.html

• http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/congo• http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/monuc/background.shtml• http://

www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/democratic-republic-congo

• http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/congo• http://

www.enoughproject.org/blogs/congo-first-and-second-wars-1996-2003• http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/crises/crisis-in-drc• http://www.crimesofwar.org/commentary/conflict-minerals-and-congos-brut

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