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Makobola massacre, the Glossary

The Makobola massacre (French: Massacre de Makobola) occurred from December 30, 1998, to January 2, 1999, in the small village of Makobola, located approximately 15 kilometers south of Uvira, on the border between Fizi Territory and Uvira Territory in the South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).^[1]

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1990s massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1999 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Arson in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
December 1990 events in Africa
December 1998 crimes
January 1999 crimes
January 1999 events in Africa
Kivu conflict
Looting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Second Congo War
South Kivu
Uvira
Wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Banyamulenge

Banyamulenge is a community from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province.

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Barthélémy Bisengimana

Barthélémy Bisengimana Rwema (born 12 May 1935) was a Zairean official who served as head of the Bureau of the President under Mobutu Sese Seko from May 1969 to February 1977.

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Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).

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Bembe people

The Bembe people (Babembe in the plural) are an ethnic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Katavi Region of Tanzania.

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Candidate

A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example.

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Ceasefire

A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions, often due to mediation by a third party.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Collective unconscious

Collective unconscious (kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts.

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Democratic peace theory

Proponents of democratic peace theory argue that both electoral and republican forms of democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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DRC Mapping Exercise Report

The DRC Mapping Exercise Report, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1993-2003 UN Mapping Report, was a report by the United Nations within the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the wake of the armed aggressions and war which took place between March 1993 and June 2003. Makobola massacre and DRC Mapping Exercise Report are Second Congo War.

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Endogamy

Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

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Ernest Wamba dia Wamba

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (1942 – July 15, 2020) was a prominent Congolese academic and political theorist who became a commander of the Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy during the Second Congo War.

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Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

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Ethnic hatred

Ethnic hatred, inter-ethnic hatred, racial hatred, or ethnic tension refers to notions and acts of prejudice and hostility towards an ethnic group to varying degrees.

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Fizi Territory

Fizi is a territory in the south of Sud-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering the South Kivu territories of Uvira, Mwenga and Shabunda to the north, Lake Tanganyika or Tanzania in the east, and the provinces Tanganyika in the south and Maniema in the west.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as the Cabinet, is the junior institution in the executive branch of the central authority governing the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the senior institution being the President of the Republic.

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Grazing

In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.

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Humanitarian Information Centers

A Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) was a common service to the humanitarian community managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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Hutu

The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region.

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The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.

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Kasika massacre

The Kasika massacre (French: Massacre de Kasika) took place on August 24, 1998, in the villages of Kasika, Kilungutwe, Kalama, and Zokwe, located in the Luindi Chiefdom of the Mwenga Territory in the South Kivu Province, situated in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Makobola massacre and Kasika massacre are 1990s massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kivu conflict and south Kivu.

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Kigeli IV Rwabugiri

Kigeli IV Rwabugiri (1840? - September 1895) was the king (mwami) of the Kingdom of Rwanda in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Kingdom of Rwanda

The Kingdom of Rwanda was a Bantu kingdom in the modern-day Republic of Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy.

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Kivu

Kivu was the name for a large "region" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko that bordered Lake Kivu.

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Kivu conflict

The Kivu conflict is an umbrella term for a series of protracted armed conflicts in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo which have occurred since the end of the Second Congo War. Makobola massacre and Kivu conflict are south Kivu.

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Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.

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Laurent-Désiré Kabila

Laurent-Désiré Kabila (27 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) usually known as Laurent Kabila (US), was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassination in 2001.

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Legislator

A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature.

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List of current heads of state and government

This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Machete

A machete is a broad blade used either as an agricultural implement similar to an axe, or in combat like a long-bladed knife.

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Mai-Mai

The term Mai-Mai or Mayi-Mayi refers to any kind of community-based militia group active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is formed to defend local communities and territory against other armed Rwandan groups that rape and committ genocide against congolese communities.

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Massacre

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.

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Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Industrie minière de la République Démocratique du Congo) produces copper, diamonds, tantalum, tin, gold, and more than 70% of global cobalt production.

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Mobutu Sese Seko

Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the 1st and only President of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.

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Mwenga Territory

Mwenga is a territory in the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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New Year's Day

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Pit latrine

A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground.

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Political representation

Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's Concept of Representation (1967).

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Public space

A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public.

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Rally for Congolese Democracy

The Congolese Rally for Democracy (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie; abbreviated RCD), also known as the Rally for Congolese Democracy, is a political party and a former rebel group that operated in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Right to property

The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Ruanda-Urundi

Ruanda-Urundi, later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922.

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Rwanda

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Second Congo War

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War, the Great War of Africa, or the Great African War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 2 August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues.

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Sexual violence

Sexual violence is any harmful or unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent, by any individual regardless of their relationship to the victim.

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Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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South Kivu

South Kivu (Jimbo la Kivu Kusini; Sud-Kivu) is one of 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Subsistence agriculture

Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.

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Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of provinces.

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Tribal chief

A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.

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Tutsi

The Tutsi, also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Uvira

Uvira is a city strategically located in the South Kivu Province of the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Uvira Territory

Uvira Territory is a territory in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Zaire

Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1997.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makobola_massacre

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Makobola massacre, the Glossary

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See also

1990s massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1999 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Arson in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

December 1990 events in Africa

December 1998 crimes

January 1999 crimes

January 1999 events in Africa

Kivu conflict

Looting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Second Congo War

South Kivu

Uvira

Wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

References