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- Mobutu's own army allied with Hutus in those camps, a move that led a broad coalition of Tutsis and other ethnic groups in eastern Zaire to form their own militia and join forces with the governments of Rwanda and Uganda against Mobutu.†
Chpt 6
- The leader of this coalition was a man named Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former Marxist rebel who had been educated in France and was, until his rapid ascension to power, a relative unknown in Congo.†
Chpt 6
- Kabila's coalition defeated Mobutu's entrenched regime with surprising ease, and in May 1997, Kabila entered Kinshasa and declared himself president of a country he renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.†
Chpt 6
- They were Tutsis—and allied with a group in Laurent Kabila's coalition led by a military commander named Anselme Masasu Nindaga.†
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- But Kabila soon revealed he had little interest in maintaining this broad coalition.†
Chpt 6
- This newly formed coalition quickly drowned out the voices of the small group that had come out to support the Fugees.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(coalition) a political group made up of different groups working together
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)