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Laurent-Désiré Kabila ( November 27, 1939 - January 18, 2001) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko until his assassination in January 2001 (he was shot on January 16 and died of his injuries on January 18). He was succeeeded by his son Joseph Kabila.
He was born a member of the Luba tribe in Jadotville ( Likasi ) in the Belgian Congo, Katanga province. He studied political philosophy in France and attended the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.
When the Congo gained independence in 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23, Kabila was a youth leader in a party allied to Patrice LumumbaPatrice Emery Lumumba ( July 2, 1925 January 17/ 18, 1961) was the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Path to Prime Minister Lumumba was born in Onalua in the Kasai province of the Belgian Congo. He was educated at a missionary. Lumumba was overthrown by Joseph Mobutu within months. Kabila and other supporters of Lumumba fled into the jungles of eastern ZaireZaire was the name between 1971 and 1997 of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Belgian Congo became independent in 1960 as the "Republic of the Congo", the same name as its neighbour the former French colony of Congo. The title Democratic Republic. In 1964Events January January 1 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. January 5 In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Ort, Kabila helped organise a revolt in the Ruzizi region. Che GuevaraErnesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna ( May 14, 1928 — October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's " 26th of July Movement", which seized power assisted Kabila for a short time before declaring that "Nothing leads me to believe he is the man of the hour." The revolt was suppressed in 19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N.
In 1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio Kabila founded the People's Revolutionary Party (PRP). With the support of the People's Republic of China the PRP created a secessionist Marxist state in South Kivu province, west of Lake Tanganyika. The PRP state came to an end in 1988 and Kabila was believed dead.
Kabila returned in October 1996, leading ethnic Tutsis from South Kivu in defence against Hutu forces. With support from Burundi, Uganda and the Rwandan Tutsi government, Kabila pushed his forces into a full-scale rebellion against Mobutu as the Alliance des Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Congo-Zaire (ADFL). By mid- 1997, the ADFL had made significant gains and following failed peace talks in May 1997, Mobutu fled the country, and Kabila entered Kinshasa on May 20. Kabila made himself head of state, created the Public Salvation Government and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kabila had been a committed Marxist but his policies were a confusing mix of capitalism and collectivism, all marked with a self-aggrandizing trend. By 1998, Kabila's former allies in Uganda and Rwanda had turned against him and backed a new rebellion of the Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo (MLC). Kabila found new allies in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola and managed to hold on in the south and west of the country and in July 1999 peace talks led to the withdrawal of most foreign forces. The native revolutionaries continued to fight and Kabila was shot during the afternoon of January 16, 2001 by one of his own staff, Rashidi Kiserika , who was also killed. The assassination was part of a failed coup attempt which was crushed, and Kabila, who may have been still alive, was flown to Zimbabwe for medical treatment. He died there, and his body was returned to Congo on January 26, 2001.
The investigation into the assassination led to 135 people being tried before a special military tribunal. The alleged ringleader a cousin of Kabila, Colonel Eddy Kapend , and 25 others were sentenced to death in January 2003. Of the other defendants 64 were jailed, with sentences from six months to life, and 45 were exonerated.
see also: Congo Civil War
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