Author: Publisher: Human Rights Watch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Human Rights Watch Arms Project Human Rights Watch/ Africa. Angola Between War and Peace Arms Trade and Human Rights Abuses Since the Lusaka Protocol
Author: Conspicuous Destruction
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Addressing two sets of concerns, this report covers both the abuses relating to the seventeen years of war between the Mozambique Armed Forces and the rebel Mozambique National Resistance, as well as the reforms instigated by the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front under President Joachim Chissano. Africa Watch evaluates the progress made by the Liberation Front government toward a democratic system of government that respects civil and political rights. The 1990 Constitution and related legislation are the centerpiece of this transition, and represent the most wholehearted attempt to build an institutional and legal framework to guarantee respect for human rights so far attempted in the history of Mozambique. Major concerns remain, however, relating to the ability of the government to implement the promised changes.
Human Rights Watch World Report
Author: Human Rights Watch StaffPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322074
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Human Rights Watch, an international agency that advocates human rights worldwide, presents the online edition of its "World Report" for the year 2000. The report provides an overview of human rights abuses in individual countries worldwide.
Angola's Deadly War
Author: John PrendergastPublisher:
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Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Africa's World War
Author: Gerard PrunierPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199743991
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-D?sir? Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Praise for the hardcover: "The most ambitious of several remarkable new books that reexamine the extraordinary tragedy of Congo and Central Africa since the Rwandan genocide of 1994." --New York Review of Books "One of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster." --Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review "Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier's will likely become the standard account of this under-reported tragedy." --Publishers Weekly
The Destruction of a Nation
Author: George WrightPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745310299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this thorough examination of US policy towards Angola from 1945 up to the present, George Wright assesses how each President from Truman to Clinton has carried out US foreign policy in general, and in Angola specifically, in a step-by-step case study that traces the dismantling of a Marxist regime by the West. Wright demonstrates the influence that policy planning organisations have in determining foreign policy and emphasizes the internal debates and struggles inherent in carrying out foreign policy. This well researched and well documented book is an invaluable critique of US intervention in a Third World state over five decades, before and after the end of the Cold War.
Angola Unravels
Author: Alex VinesPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322333
Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Role Of The Churches
A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law
Author: Peacekeeping in Africa
Author: Oliver FurleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000347540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
First published in 1998, Peacekeeping in Africa was written to help make up the shortfall in the number of books that concentrated specifically on peacekeeping in Africa. The book covers the main peacekeeping operations of Africa, and provides a wealth of background material. In doing so, it explores the policies and actions of the international organisations concerned and the participating African states. It also considers the impact of sub-regional powers and the role of the USA, Britain, and France. Comprising three parts, Peacekeeping in Africa examines world perspectives, case studies, and wider issues surrounding Africa’s peacekeeping operations.
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