Second Congo WarDR Congo · 1998–2003"Lower your voice at Congo's fire; this was a war with many commanders, and millions who never commanded anything."Mobutu had fallen, but the peace did not sit down; Laurent-Desire Kabila soon turned against the Rwandan and Ugandan forces that had helped bring him to Kinshasa, and the old fears from genocide, refugee camps and border militias returned armed.The lesson the elders kept: When outsiders fight inside another people's home, even victory leaves footprints on the floor. The end of a war is not the end of the systems that learned to profit from it.