![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I really did not know much about the Congo and it's 15 year war, but was interested in the country after reading In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, about Mubutu's reign in that country. Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as-and was a direct consequence of-the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. ![]()
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