The Role of Demilitarization in Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in Africa

Lloyd J. Dumas

Chapter 1 in Arming the South, 2002, pp 15-33 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In April 1994, the slaughter began. With guns, with knives, with clubs, the people of Rwanda butchered each other in an ethnic genocide carefully orchestrated by Rwanda’s government, while the rest of the world watched in horror — and did nothing.’ By the time it was over, 500,000 to 1,000,000 people had died and several million more had fled their homes in terror. Squalid conditions in refugee camps took the lives of thousands who sought sanctuary in neighboring Zaire (a nation soon to be violently transformed into the Democratic Republic of Congo). Malnutrition and maltreatment weakened them, and cholera spread like wildfire (Villalón, 1998).

Keywords: Civil Society; Formal Institution; Military Force; Military Expenditure; Military Spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230501256_2

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