Abstract
After the Tutsi offensive in eastern Congo in the autumn of 1998 the future prospects of the DRC as a settled and united sovereign state looked bleak. Part of its eastern territory had been occupied by the Tutsi invading army, said to be over 15 000 strong and supported by Rwandan and Ugandan military elements. The Tutsis, bent on carving out a large independent state in eastern Congo, were already besieging the town of Kindu, the government’s forward military base some 700 miles from Kinshasa, the capital, and about 300 miles from Goma, the main Tutsi invasion base. The Tutsis boasted that when Kindu fell, their next target would be Lubumbashi.
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© 2000 Edgar O’Ballance
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O’Ballance, E. (2000). Bleak Prospects. In: The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960–98. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286481_14
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