War economy and international criminalization at the Great Lakes Zone (Congo, Uganda y Rwanda)

Abstract

Mobutu Sese Seko regime’s (1965-1997) fall not only included the Congolese territory occupation from rebel movements supported by the Rwanda and Uganda governments, but it also introduced the Democratic Congo Republic to an international state criminalization system. This last scheme permitted the establishment of a national/international reciprocal, uneven benefit network, that became usufruct by the transnational enterprises involved in third generation mineral traffic as well as the warlords who acted as insecurity businessmen in order to become, subsequently, “professional” politicians. Certain stripes of Congolese society received unequal benefits when they recuperated the same state duties under a State motion under a war economy society determined, as well; system that prevailed from Mobutu’s fall to the early years of the 2000 decade.