Thanks all!
Etzel: Yes these are election posters
For thoose who want a "background": The PPDK (Fr: Parti Pour la Démocratie au Kotonga; En: Party For Democracy in Kotonga) is a political party supposed to restore "true" democracy in ths african country. In fact, this is a "fake" party leaded by some Angolese insurgents refuged in Kotonga. The party did not win the elections and his supporters bacame violent. After some riots in the capital, the PPDK clamed his victory and decided to "retake" government by force. The well equiped national army soon crushed insurgents and pacified the capital. Some militia are still fighting in the South, but Angolese army decided to help Kotonga fighting resistance (which is, after all, their problem).
This diorama represents a part of the capital just after the battle for the city, with troop patrolling.
Little history of Kotonga:
Kotonga is a former part of the Belgian Congo. Kotonga was a very unstable region because of cultural, linguistic and ethnic particularities of his inhabitants: the Mahimahis. When Congo became independant in 1960, the main Kotongese independentist movement, the MDLK (Democratic Movement for Freedom of Kotonga), demanded the independence of Kotonga. Fearing a civil war, the Belgian autorities decided to give independence to Kotonga. The young Congolese governement wanted to see this rich region come back into his country. After his coup, Mobutu decided to arm various military groups in Kotonga to destabilize the Kotongese governement, but failed.
During the first Congo war Kotonga joined Laurent-Désiré Kabila's troops. Since the overthrow of Mobutu, the relationship between Kotonga and Congo are much better. Unfortunatly, in 1999, a civil war broke up because of the Angolese insurgents refuged in Kotonga since the end of the war.
