{"id":3949,"date":"2026-01-17T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:55:09","slug":"les-nouveaux-predateurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"Les nouveaux pr\u00e9dateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Auteur : Colette Braeckman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Un livre sur la RDC que j&rsquo;ai dans ma biblioth\u00e8que depuis fort longtemps. Celui-ci est \u00e9crit par une <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colette_Braeckman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">journaliste belge<\/a> sp\u00e9cialiste de la r\u00e9gion des grands lacs et s&rsquo;attache \u00e0 d\u00e9crire la p\u00e9riode de l&rsquo;apr\u00e8s Mobutu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comme on peut s&rsquo;y attendre c&rsquo;est complexe car les int\u00e9r\u00eats d&rsquo;\u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s tous les pays de la r\u00e9gion y sont m\u00eal\u00e9s (Angola, Burundi, Ouganda, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Afrique du Sud) et m\u00eame au-del\u00e0 : la Belgique, bien s\u00fbr, la France aussi, les Etats-Unis et m\u00eame la Chine (m\u00eame si cette derni\u00e8re est un peu moins pr\u00e9sente \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Qui soutenir dans une affaire si compliqu\u00e9e ? O\u00f9 sont les bons, les m\u00e9chants, les pers\u00e9cut\u00e9s ? Comment se d\u00e9terminer face \u00e0 des victimes de victimes ?<\/p><cite>Chap. 7 &#8211; Un d\u00e9sastre humanitaire<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cette complexit\u00e9, en fait une guerre de basse intensit\u00e9, c&rsquo;est \u00e0 dire surtout  comme elle le souligne de basse publicit\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Il faut ajouter que le sous-sol de la RDC regorge de richesses inexploit\u00e9es et que chacun va s&rsquo;efforcer d&rsquo;en tirer son propre profit, au d\u00e9triment \u00e9videmment des populations locales, mais souvent, il faut le dire avec la complicit\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0chefs de guerre\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0politiciens\u00a0\u00bb locaux \u00e0 la solde des uns et des autres ou tout simplement pour financer leur effort de guerre et\/ ou pour leur propre profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C&rsquo;est \u00e0 fois fascinant et d\u00e9primant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Au del\u00e0 du drame r\u00e9el qui est d\u00e9crit ici (on parle de plusieurs millions de morts, oui millions !), l&rsquo;autrice d\u00e9crit le contexte politique interne \u00e0 la RDC (notamment la succession de Kabila p\u00e8re qui a fait chuter l&rsquo;inamovible Mobutu), terriblement complexe dans ce pays continent et le r\u00f4le trouble (\u00e0 minima) des voisins. C&rsquo;est un compl\u00e9ment au formidable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parislibrairies.fr\/livre\/9782330028589-congo-une-histoire-david-van-reybrouck\/\">Congo, une histoire.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Une incise tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressante nous renvoie au Zimbabwe qui m&rsquo;a permis de de mieux comprendre l&rsquo;image de Mugabe en Afrique qui est tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente de celle que l&rsquo;on a de lui en Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Au final, c&rsquo;est assez agr\u00e9able \u00e0 lire, on sent que le sujet est tr\u00e8s ma\u00eetris\u00e9 et que l&rsquo;autrice porte un regard nuanc\u00e9 sur les \u00e9v\u00e9nements. 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O\u00f9 sont les bons, les m\u00e9chants, les pers\u00e9cut\u00e9s ? Comment se d\u00e9terminer face \u00e0 des victimes de victimes ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,6,4],"tags":[188,187],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essai","category-histoire","category-lectures","tag-congo","tag-rdc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/faugeron.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nouveaux-predateurs.jpg?fit=149%2C213&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74TSi-11H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faugeron.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}