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Offers a picture of the situation in Zaire and Rwanda, focusing on two US embassies, intelligence operations, UN peacekeeping efforts, and regional reactions. This book illustrates how failures in intelligence and policy happen, and also, shows that a human context is necessary to comprehend these political decisions.

In August 1964, thousands of Simba rebels attacked and captured the city of Stanleyville in the newly independent Republic of the Congo and took more than 1, 600 European and American residents as hostages, threatening to kill them if any attempt was made to recapture the city. In November of that year, after months of increasingly tense and complex discussions among the governments whose nationals were being held, an airborne assault by Belgi...

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This study is a historical analysis of the 1978 Shaba Province Invasion in Zaire that culminated in three independent rescue missions to save expatriate mine workers from being killed as hostages. The study encompasses earlier crises in the country, tracing the origins and history of the Katangan Gendarmerie from its creation in 1960 to the invasion of 1978. For the first time, this study includes the entire Western response to the invasion: t...

In July 1994, Thomas P.Odom was part of the U.S. Embassy team that responded to the Goma refugee crisis. He witnessed the deaths of 70, 000 refugees in a single week. In the previous three months of escalating violence, the Rwandan genocide had claimed 800, 000 dead. Now, in this vivid and unsettling new book, Odom offers the first insider look at these devastating events before, during, and after the genocide. Odom draws his years of experien...