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	Laurent Kabila Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Laurent Kabila (born 1939) was the president of the central African nation called Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) from 1997-2001.
		Kabila's life during the three decades between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s are somewhat of a mystery.
		Kabila's son, Joseph Kabila, was appointed leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/laurent-kabila (1471 words)

	Laurent-Désiré Kabila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kabila had been a committed Marxist but his policies were a confusing mix of capitalism and collectivism, all marked with a self-aggrandizing trend.
		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.
		However, the rebellion continued and Kabila was shot during the afternoon of January 16, 2001 by one of his own staff,, who was also killed.
	americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Laurent-Desire_Kabila (711 words)

	Sobaka :: Dossier: Laurent Kabila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Kabila was born in Katanga (later renamed Shaba) province in 1939, the son of a chief.
		Kabila was a nomad, wandering the fringes of African liberation movements and the Marxist political geography.
		Kabila himself acted the part, but if the introspective words about his loss of confidence in the West after the death of Lumumba were true, he couldn't have been surprised by the indifference of the West to his plight.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/kabila.html (1985 words)

	Laurent-Désiré Kabila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Che Guevara assisted Kabila for a short time before declaring that "Nothing leads me to believe he is the man of the hour".
		Kabila returned in October 1996, leading ethnic Tutsis from South Kivu in defence against Hutu forces.
		The native revolutionaries continued to fight and Kabila was assassinated in January 2001 by one of his own staff, who was also killed.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laurent_desire_kabila.html (589 words)

	Rebel chief Laurent Kabila declares himself president of Zaire; renames country. - Encyclopedia.com
		Kabila renamed the country because he said he wants to restore what he sees as the original democracy envisioned when Zaire was named the Democratic Republic of the Congo after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
		Kabila's bid for power began seven months ago in Zaire's far east when he was reportedly picked by Rwandan officials to head a force that took advantage of a localized ethnic rebellion and rode it to power.
		Kabila said he was sure he would prove able to hammer together a ruling coalition just as he has succeeded on the battlefield.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-19487229.html (407 words)

	Laurent Kabila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 - January 18, 2001) waspresident of the Democratic Republic ofthe 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).
		Che Guevara assisted Kabila for a short time before declaring that"Nothing leads me to believe he is the man of the hour".
		Kabila made himself head of state, created thePublic Salvation Government and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	www.therfcc.org /laurent-kabila-147775.html (515 words)

	Kabila Sworn in As Congo President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Supreme Court confirmed the younger Kabila as the fourth president since independence from Belgium in 1960 amid heavy security at the Palace of the Nation – the same hall where Laurent Kabila's body was laid to rest Tuesday inside a marble mausoleum.
		Laurent Kabila's inner circle was quick to fill the power vacuum after the former president was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards, but has since fretted over legal details of succession in the troubled country that has never enjoyed a peaceful transfer of power.
		Laurent Kabila suspended the country's constitution when he toppled the late Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, leaving no blueprint for a handover of power.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010126/aponline095730_000.htm (689 words)

	LAURENT KABILA : Encyclopedia Entry
		Kabila had been a committed Marxist, but his policies at this point were a mix of capitalism and collectivism.
		Kabila was also accused of self-aggrandizing tendencies, including trying to set up a personality cult, with the help of Mobutu's former Minister of Information, Dominique Sakombi Inongo.
		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.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Laurent_Kabila (680 words)

	Kabila fils & pere
		In the seven days since his father, Congolese President Laurent Kabila, was felled by a 9mm bullet to the brain and Joseph, 31, was named his successor, he has inherited the dysfunctional government of a nation mired in poverty and war, while being introduced to a world eager to take his measure.
		Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was shot dead Tuesday afternoon, according to reports from Belgium, Britain and the U.S. However, some confusion has been caused because at the time of writing the DRC governmen claims that although shot, Kabila is still alive, and has named his son as caretaker leader.
		Kabila's group controlled a tiny region in the South Kivu region of the Congo, where it was sustained by gold mining and ivory trading, and where the group is said to have brutalised the local population.
	www.sjcite.info /kabila.html (4913 words)

	Congo's Kabila went from liberator to oppressor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Laurent Kabila, 59, died after he was wounded in a palace shooting.
		Kabila, 59, died after being wounded in a palace shooting Tuesday — nearly 40 years to the day after the execution of his hero, Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.
		Kabila blamed the lack of change — political or economic — on the country's latest civil war launched in August 1998 by Congolese Tutsis, disaffected Congolese soldiers and opposition politicians who accused him of mismanagement, corruption and warmongering.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-01-18-kabila.htm (517 words)

	Kabila fils & pere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the seven days since his father, Congolese President Laurent Kabila, was felled by a 9mm bullet to the brain and Joseph, 31, was named his successor, he has inherited the dysfunctional government of a nation mired in poverty and war, while being introduced to a world eager to take his measure.
		Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was shot dead Tuesday afternoon, according to reports from Belgium, Britain and the U.S. However, some confusion has been caused because at the time of writing the DRC governmen claims that although shot, Kabila is still alive, and has named his son as caretaker leader.
		Kabila's group controlled a tiny region in the South Kivu region of the Congo, where it was sustained by gold mining and ivory trading, and where the group is said to have brutalised the local population.
	www.webnetarts.com /socialjustice/kabila.html (4924 words)

	Obituary: Laurent Kabila \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who has been assassinated aged 61, was a cheerful, rubicund rogue, portly in middle age, who spent most of his life in exile, engaged in the illegal diamond trade and wild schemes to overthrow the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, his immediate predecessor.
		Kabila, who had established himself at Albertville (Kalemie), on the western shores of Lake Tanganyika, was soon forced by the mercenaries to retreat to the borders of Rwanda and Burundi.
		Forced to retreat, Kabila and his friends turned to the Cubans, and Che Guevara arrived on the Tanzanian-Congo border with a small contingent of guerrilla fighters in April 1965; Guevara recorded that Kabila "made an excellent impression", though he subsequently reconsidered this view.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,424653,00.html (909 words)

	Laurent Kabila
		KINSHASA (Reuters) - President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot by one of his bodyguards on Tuesday and Belgium's Foreign Ministry said he died after being hit by two bullets.
		Kabila's four years in power have been marked by little but conflict in the vast country at the heart of Africa, where he ousted veteran dictator Mobutu Sese Seko with the help of Ugandan and Rwandan friends who afterward became his bitterest foes.
		He said Kabila was apparently shot by one of his bodyguards in the presence of army generals whom he had dismissed.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits01/kabilala.html (559 words)

	President Joseph Kabila of Congo DR
		Joseph Kabila was born in Hewa Bora II, South Kivu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		In 1996, he joined Laurent Kabila's Rwandan backed rebel forces (the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, (AFDL)), as operations commander, in the campaign that is dubbed the First Congo War.
		Although Joseph Kabila registered as an independent, he is the "initiator" of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), which chose him as their candidate to the election.
	www.joinafrica.com /people/josephkabila.htm (691 words)

	AFROL Background - Laurent Kabila: Democrat or Dictator?
		Laurent Desire Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo who killed in an alleged coup bid Tuesday, was a man who renounced his Marxist beliefs to realise a dream he had harboured for 30 years.
		In overthrowing the hated Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, Kabila was briefly hailed as one of a new breed of African leader.
		Little is known of Kabila's life between the 1960s and the 1990s, during which time he lived "in the bush," as he put it, but it is known that he took part in several failed uprisings and established an enclave in Uvira, in the far east of the country.
	www.afrol.com /Countries/DRC/backgr_kabila.htm (800 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| The death of Laurent Desire Kabila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		NAIROBI, 12 February (IRIN) - On 16 January 2001, President Laurent-Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was gunned down by one of his bodyguards, plunging the war-torn country into a period of uncertainty and speculation.
		Kabila's body was flown back to the DRC from Zimbabwe, where he was taken after the shooting, and he was buried with full military honours in Kinshasa on 23 January.
		With the all-powerful president and commander-in-chief, Laurent-Desire Kabila, deceased, power-brokers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) appear to have gone into a Soviet-style denial of his death, coupled with intense debate on his successor, regional analyst Filip Reyntjens told IRIN on Thursday.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/kabila (504 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Obituary: Laurent Kabila.(Obituaries)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		LAURENT KABILA will be for ever linked in history with his predecessor, Mobutu Sese Seko, whom he deposed as president in 1997 with promises of a new era in history for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire).
		Yet the similarities between their presidencies - the extraordinary powers passed by constitutional decree, the imposition of a one-party state and the accusations of cronyism and nepotism - were mirrored in the rebellions ranged against their rule.
		Kabila was born in the Belgian Congo in 1939, in Baudouinville (now Moba) in the area near Albertville...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:69264148&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (181 words)

	Congo: The Kabila Legacy (Human Rights Watch Press release, January 19, 2001)
		Kabila handed out rights to exploit the vast mineral riches of the country to his commercial and military cronies while the economy as a whole disintegrated and ordinary people lacked food, medicine, and other basic needs of life, particularly in Kinshasa and other urban areas.
		Kabila's death cannot guarantee an end to this carnage; that requires commitment by all belligerents as well as by the international community.
		Kabila blocked their work, but the investigators returned with enough information to conclude that combatants in the first Congo war had committed crimes against humanity and perhaps genocide.
	www.hrw.org /press/2001/01/kabila0119.htm (743 words)

	Kabila, Laurent -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		On Jan. 26, 2001, Joseph Kabila was inaugurated as the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
		He was the eldest son of the former president, Laurent Kabila, who had been shot by a bodyguard and apparently killed on January 16, although the death was not announced until two days later.
		With the defeat of Zairean government forces and the departure of President Mobutu Sese Seko in the spring of 1997, the victorious rebel leader Laurent Kabila renamed Zaire the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311939?tocId=9311939 (698 words)

	Africa and the World - Laurent Kabila: Not America's boy
		Of the many things that Belgium and America feared from Laurent Kabila was that he would one day ask for compensation from Belgium and the family of King Leopold for not only the exploitation of the resources of The Congo, but for the enslavement of its citizens from 1890 to 1906.
		Kabila, whom he met while he was in The Congo helping in their struggle against the American-backed dictator Mobutu.
		Laurent Kabila felt that if we could unite Africa, the riches of The Congo could help to build Africa as in the past those riches helped to build Europe and America.
	www.finalcall.com /columns/akbar/2001/kabilai02-06-2001.htm (678 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Profile: Laurent Kabila
		Laurent Kabila seemed like a saviour when he and his supporters fought their way across what was then the devastated nation called Zaire in 1996 and 1997.
		Laurent Kabila quickly alienated himself from aid donors and investors as he surrounded himself with friends and family members and became increasingly secretive.
		Laurent Kabila joined a rebellion in 1965 which was put down by Mobutu Sese Seko.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1121068.stm (458 words)

	CNN.com - World - Congo to swear in Kabila's son - January 24, 2001
		Joseph Kabila, a 31-year-old major-general who commanded his father's army, was picked by the government as Congo's new leader last week after Laurent Kabila was shot by a bodyguard while he sat in his office.
		Kabila has yet to make any public address and it is a matter of intense speculation when he will and in what language.
		Kabila, aside from the sadness for his family, is bringing new opportunities for the country in terms of (building) a consensus," Nzanga Mobutu said in an interview.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/01/24/congo.kabila (758 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - The Rest (Official Confirms Kabila's Death) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Political sources in Laurent Kabila's home town, Lubumbashi, said preparations were starting for a state funeral there but the ministry source said Kabila would be buried in Kinshasa.
		The same day, Kabila's ambassador to Zimbabwe said the president was alive after being evacuated to Zimbabwe for surgery, although he was in serious condition and being treated by Congolese doctors.
		Joseph Kabila, 31, born during his father's long exile in East Africa and well connected in both Rwanda and Uganda, fought beside his father in the rebellion backed by those countries that ousted veteran dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.
	archive.sptimes.ru /archive/times/637/rest/r_1665.htm (550 words)

	Laurent Kabila, 2001 People in the News — Infoplease.com
		Laurent Kabila, 2001 People in the News — Infoplease.com
		Joseph Kabila, 31, assumed the presidency and inherited a country mired in a bloody civil war and plagued by economic disaster.
		Laurent Kabila 1997 People in the News - Laurent Kabila led his rebel army to take city after city in Zaire.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0878489.html (199 words)

	CNN.com - Congolese president dead following apparent coup attempt, sources tell CNN - January 16, 2001
		Kabila's death also was confirmed by Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, ministry spokesman Michel Malherbe told CNN, during a telephone interview from Belgium.
		Kabila "was shot dead this afternoon, most probably by one of his bodyguards," Michel said.
		Kabila, however, was alive and being treated by doctors, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/01/16/congo.coup.05 (666 words)

	Laurent Kabila a perfect power vacuum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		And Kabila did bamboozle the United Nations with false promises to end a civil war that serves the political and financial purposes of his backers.
		Kabila came to power by accident and guile, not through the force of neo-colonialism, Marxism or the CIA.
		For some, Kabila's career trajectory and demise is reason enough to give up on a continent that dared flirt with socialism in the independence era.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/hoag252.shtml (774 words)

	Reports say Congo President Laurent Kabila Has Been Shot and Killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The official in Brussels, Louis Michel, said he had received confirmation of Kabila's death from "two trustworthy sources." The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known, but one report said that it had involved a dispute between Kabila and some of his generals.
		If the assumption is confirmed, Kabila's death would dramatically alter the dynamics of a 2 1/2 year old war that has drawn in half a dozen African nations and destabilized all of Central Africa.
		Kabila, who deposed the longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, had long been considered the main obstacle to any diplomatic resolution to the current conflict, and had become increasingly isolated diplomatically during his four years in office.
	www.ucsdguardian.org /viewarticle.php?story=head01&year=2001&month=01&day=18 (480 words)

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