“I'm not a warmonger. And I’m not a pacifist either. But I like peace.”

—  Joseph Kabila

As quoted in "For Congo’s Leader, Middling Reviews" https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/africa/04kabila.html?hpw (4 April 2009), by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

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