Rebel soldiers escort a TV crew through an FDLR area on their way to meet General Nkunda
A father feeds his wounded daughter at Rutshuru hospital. The same bullet that hit the 14 month old girl in the leg also killed her mother. Heavy fighting in the area has caused heavy casualties amongst the civilian population.
When Congo sneezes, Africa catches a cold. Not for nothing was the last big conflict here called “The Great War of Africa,” dragging in a half dozen of its neighbours during the devastating six-year war.Even in the five years since that ended, eastern Congo has remained a crucible of misery, straining superlatives. More than five million dead. The worst sexual violence in the world. Congo does little to shrug the cliché of the “Dark Heart of Africa.”
Why?
Because The Congo is one of the richest places on earth. The minerals under the ground in Congo are worth as much as the oil under the sand in Iraq. As in Iraq - perpetuating war is the cheapest way for industrialized nations to extract the riches without paying the people.
5 comments:
Ah? Plaxico played himself as stupid. IDIOT. 35 million dollars over 5 years and you can't hire a effing armed security person. He should GFH!
BTW, AS TO YOUR COMMENTS CONCERNING THE CONGO, DOES THE "ELITE" OF THAT NATION HAVE SO MUCH COMTEMPT FOR THEIR KIT AND KIND, AND, AVARICE, THAT PROBABLY IS BASED ON PENNIES TO THE DOLLAR, AS TO WHAT THE WEALTH OF THE RESOURCES ARE REALY WORTH, THAT THEY WOULD ALLOW THEM TO BECOME EXTINCT? EXPLETIVE!
R-gamers already have too many killers, but not enough healers - which they then must import from K-gaming cultures.
Guns are very limited tools. They cannot bring anyone back to life. If more r-gamers studied medicine instead of thuggery, they'd be in much better shape.
HELLO!!!! THE SPIRIT OF DARWIN! CHARLES, THAT IS.
Are more concerned Whites helping Africa, than Africans abroad? Why is this worm eradication program led by Jimmy Carter and funded by Bill Gates...instead of led by Jesse Jackson and funded by Oprah?
Can guns kill worms like these? Do any wealthy African-American celebs even care about these humanitarian problems - which has now been dramatically reduced thanks to Jimmy Carter? And tens of millions of lives now "saved?"
Or are they still all stuck in macho rap video fantasies?
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