Reuters: As Congo refugees pour over border, Angola's backing for Kabila in doubt
DUNDO, Angola (Reuters) - Captured by militia and accused of being married to a Congolese government official, Kimpanga Caro could smell the fire she was told would be used to burn her decapitated head to ash.
Caro, whose husband is a pastor not an official, was freed when one of the militiamen recognized her. She raced back home to find her husband in their ransacked village. They fled south, on foot with their five children, towards a country they heard was safe: Angola.
Thirty thousand of her compatriots have made the same journey so far, among 1.4 million people driven from their homes in a year of violence in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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WNU Editor: Peace talks to stem the violence have started .... Congo Leader Opens Peace Conference in Bloody Kasai Region (VOA). Is there reason to be optimistic .... considering the history of the region probably not.
"Peace talks to stem the violence have started .... "
ReplyDeleteSo the process has started.
The UN has been intervening in Congo for 1/2 a century.
They have been camped there for 2 decades.
What has gotten better?
He better do the same thing to his son, as he has done to the entire nation.
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ReplyDeleteWhat has gotten better?
so do nothing and things will fix themselves
"What has gotten better?
ReplyDeleteso do nothing and things will fix themselves "
You break heads. You start from the top with the dictator and start whacking them until people want to clock in, do an honest job, & get honest pay.
Think of whacking the dictator as a signature firing. At some point maybe after the dictator, you start holding trials and handing out sentences. It depends on much time and money you have.
You don't hog all the wealth like they do in Nigeria or Congo. Vice TV has a segment on the illegal refineries in southern Nigeria and why they happen. Interestingly all the violence in Congo here is where it was in the 60s when the French intervened. It is over minerals. There is a movie on Netflix called Siege of Jadotville. The Irish UN peacekeepers got royally shafted by the UN. The French government and corporate interests were in on the shafting. I do not think much of the UN. Are there parts that are okay? Maybe. I think the UN should be on a small island and not in New York and not in Austria. It makes it too easy to spy. It makes their life to cushy while they fiddle and let the world burn.
The UN did Jack ____ about Rwanda and the earlier fighting in Congo in the 1990s. And Jack was not there. Since then their 'peacekeepers have raped thousands in eastern Congo. So we get expense, rapes, but no peace. How is that a fair deal?
Break heads.
Agreed Aiz. Your on a roll. Personally I am so sick of Africa and it's problems,disgusting violence and famine. Something drastic needs to be done before they inflict all there inept abilities on the rest of the world!! A good friend of mine was a peacekeeper during Rwanda crisis. He is seriously f****d in the head from not being allowed to do anything. Just stand & watch the innocents get churned up in the meat grinder
ReplyDeleteI know a peacekeeper, who spent time in the Spanish Sahara 'keeping the peace' between Polisario and the Moroccan government. I think the UN was there to keep score.
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The Moroccans would throw dead goats down wells to pollute the water supply and deny the guerillas sustenance. So he watched this and the UN did .... .... .... JACK SQUAT!
Also, the Moroccans are resettling people into the Spanish Sahara so if there is ever a 'precious' plebiscite held by the 'precious' UN, the result will be a foregone conclusion.