Congo : Massacre in the Congo

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Maybe this will shed more light on sister Abantu's passion/desperation to gain attention to her people's plight:

KINSHASA (AFP) -- The United Nations is sheltering some 9,000 people who have fled attacks by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's unruly northeastern Ituri province, after violence which witnesses said left 52 people dead, a UN source said Thursday.

"The residents of the region continue to flood in, there are around 9,000 people from Tche and it seems that there are still some people held by armed groups in the surrounding countryside," Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN mission known as MONUC, said in Ituri.

Witnesses, including some released by militias operating around Tche, a string of hamlets, said at least 34 civilians had been killed.

Those deaths bring the toll for those killed there in recent days to 52, said Boulierac.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/5/2005&Cat=4&Num=14

This is but a fraction of what is happening in this country, we do need to show more concern about genocide in Africa!
 
Thank you for this important post brother Panafrica! The few posts about Congo posted on this site, and about Sudan, Liberia, Angola, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Somalia who are in too much turmoil, are very much appreciated. As I have been telling you, the human rights crisis in my country is out of control, the militaries find wealth in wars exploiting DRC minerals and forcing civilians to be servants to their service.
We need to support each group who are struggling around the world for our people. Solidarity is what brothers Panafrica and Jamesfrmphilly are doing. It is to try to rise beyond insensitivity and have interest in the plight of most Africans on the continent. For a successful Black Unity we need to stay informed. Too many women and children die like flies in Congo because of wars and lack of food, shelter, and medical care, especially in Easter Congo where there are natural wealth in abundance. I urge you to inform yourself with Amnesty International on the catastrophic situation in Congo. If you want and can work with them, or any honest humanitarian organization to ease the killings and human rights abuse in Africa, it would be a fantastic way to overcome evil in this part of the world. Thank you again for this post brother Panafrica.
 
Conflicts in Africa

There have been over 9.5 million refugees and hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered in Africa from a number of conflicts and civil wars. If this scale of destruction and fighting was in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation. Find out more about why Africa has been largely ignored and to see some of the root causes of the problems.

A Comparison With Kosovo

The international media, NATO leaders and others were very vocal about the plight of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and insisted on a new humanitarian based model of military intervention. Because the western mainstream media had so much rhetoric about this new humanitarian nature of NATO, it is worth making some comparisons here to see if and how that has been applied to Africa. Find out more.

The Democratic Republic of Congo

The conflict in the DRC (formerly known as Zaire) has involved seven nations. There have been a number of complex reasons, including conflicts over basic resources such as water, access and control over rich minerals and other resources and various political agendas. This has been fueled and supported by various national and international corporations and other regimes which have an interest in the outcome of the conflict. Find out more about the problems in the DRC. From corporate interests to disenchantment with the current ruling regime.

Nigeria and Oil

The Niger Delta in Nigeria has been the attention of environmentalists, human rights activists and fair trade advocates around the world. The trial and hanging of environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Ogoni ethnic minority made world-wide attention. So too did the non-violent protests of the Ogoni people. The activities of large oil corporations such as Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Elf, Agip etc have raised many concerns and criticisms. Oil, which could potentially have allowed Nigeria to be one of the wealthiest countries in Africa has instead led it to become one of the poorest. Find out more about the corporate interests in Nigeria for the oil and the resulting problems.

Sierra LeoneSierra

Leone has seen serious and grotesque human rights violations since 1991 when the civil war erupted. According to Human Rights Watch, over 50,000 people have been killed to date, with over one million people having been displaced. Find out more more about the problems in Sierra Leone, the interests the corporations have, the diamond connection, the gross abuses committed by both rebel and government forces and the problems of the current peace treaty.

Conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea

30 years of war and conflict as Eritrea attempted to gain independence, finally resulted in an April 1993 internationally monitored referendum, where 98.5% of the registered voters voted. 99.8% of the votes were for independence, although the borders were not defined clearly. While the two nations seemed to get on fairly well, relations deteriorated into war a couple of years after Eritrea introduced its own currency in 1997. War again resulted over what seemed to be a minor border dispute in May 1998. Find out more about the problems in the horn of Africa.

Rwanda

It seems that the cause of the Rwanda genocide has typically been explained in simplified terms, such as ancient tribal hatreds, omitting many of the deeper and also modern causes, such as international economic policies, power politics and corruption of the elite, etc. which are also common contributing causes of problems elsewhere in the world today. Find out more about some of the deeper causes of genocide in Rwanda.

AIDS in Africa

One conflict in Africa that has taken a long time to get appropriate media attention, with regards to its severity, is that of the conflict of ordinary African people with HIV and AIDS. It is said to be killing more people than the current conflicts. Find out more about the problem of AIDS and HIV in Africa.
You can get a lot of information in this excellent website: http://www.globalissues.com/Geopolitics/Africa.asp
 

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