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The Battle of Kisangani took place in March 1997 during the First Congo War.The rebels of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL), supported by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, took the city defended by the Zairian Armed Forces (FAZ) which was loyal to President Mobutu Sese Seko.
It was because of these reasons that Kisangani was often disputed and fought over by the Congolese military and different rebel groups, who were supported by Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi. [1] The Second Congo War had been ongoing for three years, the first battles over the city occurred in August 1999 between Uganda and Rwanda leaving 200 people ...
Battle of Kolwezi: 18–22 May 1978: Hundreds The Congolese National Liberation Front massacred hundreds of White European civilians during Shaba II, mostly Belgians. [19] [20] November 1964: 8+ Four Protestant missionaries, four Spanish nuns, and an unknown number of Catholic priests were brutally murdered by Communist rebels during the Simba ...
The Kisangani Mutinies are referenced in the hit single "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon and former Congo mercenary David Lindell. It is also featured in the 1995 film Outbreak. Both the 1966 and 1967 mutinies are featured in the 2011 film Mister Bob.
The Six-Day War (French: Guerre des Six Jours) was a series of armed confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan forces around the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 5 to 10 June 2000. The war formed part of the wider Second Congo War (1998–2003).
(Novel set in fictional town similar to Kisangani) Janet MacGaffey (1987). Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaïre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33533-1. (Case study of Kisangani) Howard W. French (14 February 1997), "Kisangani Journal: An Outpost Whose Futures Have Come and Gone", New York Times
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Kinsagani Diary (alternative title: Loin du Rwanda) is a post-genocide documentary film about the lives of Hutus who fled to Zaire till they were discovered along a railway line by the United Nations. [1]