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. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little
sustained media attention.
In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the
story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of
those who engineered and perpetrated it. 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. Through their
stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense,
and why stability has been so elusive.
Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and
research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay
of the Congolese State.
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