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          Laurent Nkunda et la rébellion du Kivu: au coeur de la guerre congolaise / Stewart Andrew Scott.

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          Laurent Nkunda was born Laurent Nkundabatware in the Rutshuru region of the Congo’s North Kivu province in 1967. Mobutu Sese Seko was in power and a few years later renamed the Congo as Zaire.

          Mobutu Sese Seko
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          Nkunda is Tutsi and so part of a group that was split by colonial cartographers over the borders of Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Congo. He attended university in Kisangani, studying psychology, and then worked as a high-school teacher in Masisi, North Kivu.

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        2. He was based in Rutshuru when General Laurent Nkunda began attracting supporters to his Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP, National Congress for.
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        4. The following is a list of short biographies of over hundred different armed groups active in North and South Kivu by late
        5. Laurent Nkunda.

          6. In 1993,a year before the massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda, Congolese Tutsis were already the targets of killings in the eastern Congo. Nkunda joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in 1994 and was given military training at the Gabiro military camp in Rwanda, the same year that the RPF pushed south to take Kigali and end the slaughter.

          Much of Rwanda’s Hutu population fled across the border into Congo in the face of the RPF advance on Kigali.

          Within a year, there were millions of refug