Mobutu Sese Seko
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« On refuse de comprendre le droit du Zaïre à la différence. Avant, nous avions 44 partis et 7 syndicats. Ça a conduit le Zaïre dans le chaos et l’anarchie. J’ai dit : les 44 partis dans le fleuve, c’est terminé. » --Président Mobutu |
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Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and later Zaire from 1965 to 1997. He also served as Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity from 1967 to 1968. During the Congo Crisis, Mobutu, serving as Chief of Staff of the Army and supported by Belgium and the United States, deposed the democratically elected government of nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1960. Mobutu installed a government that arranged for Lumumba's execution in 1961, and continued to lead the country's armed forces until he took power directly in a second coup in 1965 to become the country's military dictator.
