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Congolese Ethnic Violence WorsensPosted on Oct 31, 2008
The chaos in the Democratic Republic of Congo escalated Friday as a refugee camp of 50,000 people reportedly was looted and burned, probably by Tutsi rebel groups. The violence is rooted in the colonial ethnic divisions that led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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By Big B, November 1, 2008 at 11:58 pm #
Check out the Onion’s “Our Dumb World” description of the Congo. It’s funny, appauling, tragic, and entirely too acurate.
Report thisBy KDelphi, November 1, 2008 at 2:09 pm #
hippy pam—While I wish we “had no military at all” (seriously! I’m not kidding!), I totally agree—if we are giong to have people dying and killing—it should be for a better reason than oil and intl. finanaciers!!
Report thisBy hippy pam, November 1, 2008 at 8:30 am #
WHY???......Aren’t our TROOPS over THERE fighting for the poor disposessed people being driven from homes-by armed thugs-and raped/maimed/killed??????OH-YEAH-America only INVADES COUNTRIES WITH SOMETHING AMERICA WANTS….AND BOMBS SAID COUNTRY BACK TO THE STONE AGE TO TAKE [IT?]......
Report thisBy KDelphi, October 31, 2008 at 4:55 pm #
Did people see the BBC Video—-my gawd!! WTF?! Rawanda, Darfur—all over again!! Is anyone asking the fricking candidates about this?
Nobody has said much about Darfur, that I’ve heard. Anyone? But, I have stopped listening to them. Just cant take it anymore. I am voting as a ‘surrogate” for someone else—that is how I look at it.
If the EU votes NOT to go in—what do we do? Would we have the means to deal with it , if not for Iraq and Afghanistan? The UN mandates are just lame without US (and other) military support. When will China be asked to help? Or, are they already? I guess I’d have to ask BBC.
Because no one is going to talk about anything but the election. Cant be over soon enough for me.
I sure dont think I am the only one who has had enough of it! It has become a media free-for -all—they dont have to do news now. They just report on the fricking election.
Report thisBy 123456, October 31, 2008 at 4:23 pm #
This Congo catastrophe remains the greatest issue never discussed by anyone.
NO one cares, for it’s just “Africans killing each other”. And unlike Darfur, limousine liberals like Cloney and zionist vermin like Elie Wiesel can’t use it as some anti-Arab propoganda tool, so no one cares.
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