The contemporary political history of Central Africa as a whole

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Amnesty International calls for urgent attention to the need for human rights protection
From Amnesty International News Service, 12 November 1996. The mortal risk at which millions of people in Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi find themselves is the result not only of the fighting which broke out in eastern Zaire in September 1996, but also more fundamentally, of the legacy of widespread human rights violations and impunity in the region.
Ugandan President incites killings
Amnesty International News Release, 26 January 1998. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni'ent calls for executions of perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is deplorable and will only serve to perpetuate the cycle of bitterness and revenge in the Great Lakes region.
What drives the conflict in central Africa?
By Deirdre Griswold, in Workers World, 18 March 1999. The media focuses only on the results, not the causes of the wars in central Africa. The plunder of Africa by Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium didn't end with decolonization, for U.S. imperialism has supplanted the European colonialists as the major exploiting power. The US has a stake in these wars and rides roughshod over whatever measure of national sovereignty the African masses have been able to attain.
Democratic Republic of Congo Plans to dismember country: Receive US support
From The Guardian (Communist Party of Australia), 7 July 1999. Plans for the dismemberment of the Democratic Republic of Congo provide for the setting up of a puppet ‘state’ in that part of the territory now under foreign occupation and are the brainchild of the rulers of Rwanda, one of the leading aggressors against the DR Congo, and have received support in certain leading quarters in the US.
From War to Peace in the Congo or Devastation and Militarism
By Horace G. Campbell, 19 August 1999. Analysis of the conflicts following the rebellion of August 1998. The use of brute force by Kabila and elements in the armed opposition has exposed the ineffectiveness of militaristic solutions. The trial of those responsible for genocide in Rwanda in 1994 must be given top priority. For the Lusaka agreement to take root, signatories must ensure that the internal and external questions of the use of the military come together.
Scores killed in Burundi clashes
BBC News Online, 7 February, 2000. More than 200 Rwandan rebels have been killed in clashes between Rwandan and Burundian rebel groups. Until now, both groups have been allies in their fight to topple their respective governments. In the last seven years, more than 200,000 people have died and a million have been displaced by the fighting. Some 800,000 civilians have been regrouped by the army into controversial camps around Bujumbura called ‘protection sites.’