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Title: | Democracy: Legitimate Warfare in Guinea-Bissau |
Author: | Drift, Roy van der |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Lusotopie |
Pages: | 225-240 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Guinea-Bissau |
Subjects: | democracy rebellions Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Inter-African Relations |
External link: | http://lusotopie.sciencespobordeaux.fr/drift.pdf |
Abstract: | Between 7 June 1998 and 5 February 1999, an armed conflict took place in Guinea-Bissau, which has been labelled a 'civil war'. The author of this article, who worked in Bissau and was evacuated twice during the period, argues that this was not a civil war, but a war started on the basis of a diplomatically legitimate, externally supported mission, and which remained confined to the army itself. He describes the outbreak of conflict in June 1998 with the uprising of the Junta Militar, a group of rebellious soldiers from the National Armed Forces led by their former superior, Chief Ansumane Mané, the response of the Vieira government and the military intervention of Senegal, international diplomatic peace initiatives, which led to a peace treaty signed during the annual ECOWAS meeting in Abuja in November 1998, and subsequent outbursts of military violence. An addendum outlines events between February and May 1999. Notes, ref., sum. in English, French and Portuguese (p. 587). |