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To: Tomas who wrote (255)	10/21/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 486

Mugabe steps up war in east of Congo FROM JAN RAATH IN HARARE The Times, October 22 THE governments of Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, which are keeping alive President Kabila's regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced yesterday that they would open a new front in the east of the country and take the war to the heavily defended Tutsi rebel heartland. "The east is where the sun rises, and that's where we are going," President Mugabe of Zimbabwe said after a three-hour summit with President dos Santos of Angola and President Nujoma of Namibia. "Militarily, it means we are going to defend the DRC there." Observers say troops from Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia will be fighting close to the borders of Rwanda and Uganda, and are certain to clash with the experienced and well-equipped armies of the two East African countries. A tribal rebellion in the jungles of the Congo now threatens to turn into open warfare between at least six Central African nations. But Mr Mugabe was in a mood for florid language after the summit, which President Kabila did not attend. He said he was ill. "We will not allow the DRC to fall into the hands of those who have invaded it; never, ever," Mr Mugabe said. "We have committed ourselves." He scorned warnings of the cost and duration of the campaign. "Don't talk about resources as if resources were more important than the survival of the people," Mr Mugabe declared. "The resources must be utilised for the survival of the people, and the avoidance of bloodshed; the avoidance of war and the creation of harmony in our region." Analysts say that the strategy means at least trebling the cost of the war for the three governments since they deployed large forces in western Congo in August, and the probability of suffering high casualties in a drawn-out campaign against odds they appear to have underestimated badly. Mr Mugabe's remarks demonstrate his apparent complacency over his country's slide into economic ruin and increasing disorder - much of it the result of his reckless decisions as he orders meek officials of a Treasury with no money to carry on paying for government excesses. The dramatic worsening of economic hardship in the past year has pushed ordinary Zimbabweans into a dangerous mood that threatens to explode into upheaval against Mr Mugabe's corrupt and inept rule, now in its 19th year. the-times.co.uk