The gorilla photography on the cover of National Geographic Magazine conveys a the message that animals are more important than people. It is colonialist, racist, and supportive of multi-national and strategic interests.
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"No African head of state should be in power for more than 10 years," declared President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda in 1986. He is still president.
If rape is a weapon of the Congo's war, then treat it with the gravity afforded every other weapon. Until the sexual violence ends, the world has no right to speak of peace.
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On this Human Rights Day, video serves as a powerful tool to expose incidents that threaten the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to spur individuals to exercise their freedom of speech.
At this year's holiday break, as I pause for a little while, am still fixated on one crisis -- the conflict and humanitarian disaster still unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again -- and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket.
Fresh from a two-week visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, I watch on television the escalation of war, one that has already claimed five million lives since 1998.
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This is a video of artists, activists and children reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- send it to everyone you know.
Many Westerners have heard next to nothing about the violence in the D. R. Congo, despite the fact that its aftermath is still deadlier on a daily basis than all other current wars on earth combined.
Headlines from Africa in 2008 recounted brutal riots in Kenya, a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and election-driven chaos in Zimbabwe. But there was also good news.
Today is day of celebration for the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Declaration was signed. However, the litany of abuses does not afford us a second of self-congratulation.
The Congo is the heart of Africa and Africa is the heart of the world. Right now Eastern Congo is about to spin out of control and tumble into full-scale war.
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Where are the links to the video of this conference which you wrote of? Do you have them or not?
berlin conference of 1884 to avoid conflict b/w european powers.
congo and africas problem started with berlin conference,where european powers divided africa into bits and pieces not minding language and cultural barriers,e.g tutsi are minorities like three or four countries.it was divided for explotation by europeans for europeans .congo was a personal property of king of belgium who massacred the population,the violence has being tranfered generation to generation.the people that created the problem must stop playing lip service and africans must start thinking strategically about proper intergration of the whole continent,if not more warlords are going to be produced with the help of the big coporations that it favours for the continuation of the status quo.
Its kind of aggravating knowing that the organization that was put in place to protect us against political leaders or dictators, presidents, kings and queens, who might commit crimes of war and inhumane acts upon people, is the same organization that goes after the little guys with vengeance, but ignores the largest and more destructive than all the small fries put together. Bush will walk, while they will make the little, but none less guilty, be propped up to show that they occasionally do what they are suppose to do. As usual, the most deadly walks because they have more money and support from other corrupt people
If Nkunda was backed by any of the "outside intervention" i.e. U.S.A, France etc He would be praised as a liberator (puppet to facilitate further looting) i.e in point Laurent D. Kabila
You can always refer to the late President Lumumba at the time of independence in the 1960, who was assassinated by then a C.I.A. effort in cahoots with then puppet Mobutu, who turned out to be the worst U.S. investment in Africa for a good 3 decades as a dictator (32 yrs) sounds familiar?
This is someone who loves his country and wants it to regain its pride and you really think he"s a favorite to anyone with their influence in HIS country that generates billions of billions of dollar.
Only to leave HIS country-men in shacks and succumbing to the worst living means known to humanity.put it into perspective, a senseless Iraq war (Bush family enticed revenge), Jews and Palestinians fighting (did I mention good chance a diamond-mine somewhere around the Kasai province funding this bully-conflict)
You have simply got to be kidding me. First of all, Nkunda is supported, financed and handled by Rwanda, which led by Paul Kagame, which is the United States strongest ally in the region. So Nkunda is definitely linked - tangentially - to the same super-powers that you claim he is being vilified by.
Second of all, Laurent Nkunda and his Rwandan allies take advantage of the profits from Coltan mining, AT THE EXPENSE of the Congolese people, the rightful owner of those minerals. Additionally, his soldiers are just as reckless, and as insiduously perverted in their behavior as all the other forces present (including the Congolese Armed Forces, and MONUC), so as a Congolese man, I am insulted that you want to raise this murderous war-criminal to the level of a hero for me and my country. It insults me on a number of levels, but particularly in as much as it insults my intelligence, and the lives of all those who have been martyred by his senseless, needless war.
Third, another commenter stated that this issue is only complicated for Anderson Cooper. As much as I love beating on the MSM, this is one where Anderson Cooper is right. It is a complex issue. My problem is often that people in the West do not recognize the complexity of the issue, and refuse to treat it with the depth, the care, the scrutiny and the importance it deserves.
...and Nkunda also in cahoots with Museveni of Uganda!
welcome to the internet....lol...he is a mass murdered.