卡比拉修改扎伊尔的国名的其目的在于彻底清除蒙博托政权长期统治扎伊尔留下的政治痕迹,树立“新总统、新国家”的形象。 “扎伊尔共和国”是蒙博托执政的产物。扎伊尔在13至14世纪是刚果王国的一部分。1884年—1885年,在西方列强召开瓜分非洲的柏林会议上,扎伊尔被划为比利时国王的“私人领地”后,就成为比利 Kabila’s aim of altering the country name of Zaire is to completely eliminate the political marks left by the long-term control over Zaire by the Mobutur regime and establish the image of “a new president and a new nation.” “Republic of Zaire” is a product of Mobutu’s rule. Zaire was part of the Congolese kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries. In 1884 - 1885, at a meeting of the Western powers in Berlin that divided Africa, Zaire was designated the “private domain” of the Belgian king,