Mobutu gained power as Lieutenant General in November 1965
Later was given the title as President of Zaire, also known as the (Democratic Republic of the Congo) for 32 years 1965-1997.
In the year of 1966 four cabinet members were arrested and publicly executed for complicity in an attempted coup.
There was an unsuccessful revolt led by white mercenaries in 1967.
By 1970 Mobutu made sure that all threats against him were annihilated and made harmless and ineffective. His army had tortured all those who posed potential threats to him and would make sure their death was brutal. The main members that Mobutu would kill were members who had associated with Patrice Lumumba and made sure his vision was a lost cause.
In 1968, a former Minister of Education, Pierre Mulele was captured by Mobutu’s forces and brutally beaten and painfully tortured. Besides using murder as a method to increase power Mobutu also used money to sway other rivals in his favor.
“Order” as Mobutu would say was brought to Africa and 1970 marked the peak of Mobutu’s stronghold, power and authority.
Mobutu made strong relations with Western countries gaining support from powerful countries he
Voting was useless because Mobutu raised elections in his favor as he said that voting was obligated and demanded although only he was the main candidate.
Mobutu had died in September 7, 1997 from prostate cancer which he’d been struggling with ever since 1962.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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The Gift
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