HI306 Lecture Notes - Coltan, Pilot Error, Paul Kagame
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War and society in africa lecture: march 21, 2013 ! Both kasavubu and laumuba sided with soviet unions! Un faced with dif cult situation, must appear as if they are not taking sides in the congo and in the cold war. He was using the radio to make orders to his faction. This eliminated that source of con ict: prevents lumumba having his faction to y into the capital and launch a coup , lamumbas people have been recicving arms shipments from the soviet union. This stopped the ow of soviet arms to this faction! We can argue that the un has ensured to make the issue localized and prevent open. On the other hand we can say that they is a prowestern bias on this issue. The problem is even with these steps it is impossible to prevent some ghting between the various factions.
