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Article: Back to the Congo. (Laurent Kabila and the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo drive Mobutu Sese Seko out of the former-Zaire)
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- May 26, 1997
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Rebel leader Kabila finally deposes the dictator, captures his capital and changes the country s name. But can he govern what he has conquered?
IT WAS FINALLY OVER. MOBUTU Sese Seko fled from his capital, and that was the signal for his generals and ministers to line up, with their frightened families, on "the beach," a strip of waterfront from which speedboats would ferry them to sanctuary on the other side of the Congo River. Only a few fanatics wanted to fight the approaching rebel army. When Mobutu's der fense minister visited the camp of the dreaded Special Presidential Detachment (DSP) to ask them to lay down their arms, one soldier called the general a ...