High-tech genocide in Congo

[GhostofMarcus]

March 28th, 2005: - Listen | Download
Featured Guest(s):
Keith Harmon Snow, Robin Philpot

Summary:
Keith Harmon Snow talks to Phil about "the world's most neglected emergency" - the ongoing tragedy of the Congo where perhaps six million have died since 1996. Most of the victims have been noncombatants who have died from hunger or disease as a consequence of the invasions and wars sponsored by western powers trying to gain control of the region's mineral wealth. Keith Harmon Snow also talks about the movie Hotel Rwanda ("propaganda; malicious, destructive, violent disinformation") and the situation in Sudan ("Darfur is all about oil").

Robin Philpot, the author of "Rwanda 1994: Colonialism dies hard", points to the RPF invasion of Rwanda in 1990 as the key event that led to later tragedies. "If not for that invasion there would have been no slaughters in 1994 in Rwanda, or later in the Congo". Philpot argues that the often-repeated claim that 'the international community refused to intervene in Rwanda' is a myth. In truth, the US and Britain prevented any intervention because they wanted the RPF to take power. Philpot talks about his interview with former UN General Secretary Boutros-Ghali that reveals much about the actual events in Rwanda, including possible CIA involvement in the shooting down of the plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi that triggered the Rwandan tragedy.

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[Makkonnen]

interesting post

 

[QueEx]

I listened to all of 30 minutes of the clip and up to that point, all I heard was one central theme: one guy, Keith Harmon Snow, citing events in Africa, then naming who is on the board of directors of an entity, and then, by way of suggestion, saying you know something must be wrong because a certain person is on the board. All of the bad things that Snow suggests <u>may</u> be happening <u>may</u> in fact be happening. Unless I missed something (which is entirely possible), however, I didn't one time hear where he provided an affirmative link of anybody to anything. Just his completely unsupported opinion - when he (Snow) had the opportunity to tell us so much more than mere supposition. In that regard, I found the 30 minutes, a waste.

QueEx

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5"><center>Millions of Congolese vote in historic poll</font size></center>

Election workers count ballots in Kinshasa. Picture / Reuters

7.45am Monday July 31, 2006
By David Lewis


KINSHASA - Millions of Congolese have voted in their first free elections in 40 years, hoping to end years of war, corruption and chaos that have brought the mineral-rich African giant to its knees.

As polling wound down and counting of ballots began across Democratic Republic of Congo, UN officials and international observers reported a high turnout and said voting had been mostly enthusiastic, orderly and peaceful.

"I would hesitate to declare anything successful until it's done, but so far so good. In fact, so far, very good," Ross Mountain, the UN deputy special representative for the Congo, told reporters in Kinshasa.

Protected by the biggest peacekeeping operation in the world, the presidential and parliamentary polls in the vast, former Belgian colony were the most complex and expensive ever organised by the United Nations at a cost of $460 million.

From the sprawling capital Kinshasa to the jungles of the Congo River basin and the mist-shrouded peaks of the east, voters braved threats of violence from marauding rebels, bureaucratic hitches and rain to cast their ballots.

The polls were the culmination of a three-year peace process following a 1998-2003 war that sucked in six neighbouring states and killed 4 million people, mostly from hunger and disease.

Counting got underway immediately as voting centres closed, although official collated results from all 50,000 nationwide pollings stations scattered around a war-ravaged country the size of western Europe were expected only within three weeks.

In the southern West and East Kasai provinces - the stronghold of a major opposition party which boycotted the elections - youths destroyed several polling stations after voting was over. In the southeast town of Lubumbashi, students protested when they found they were not registered to vote.

But these appeared to be isolated incidents.

"I have witnessed long queues and busy polling stations," European member of parliament Richard Howitt, one of more than 1,200 international observers, told Reuters from Lubumbashi.

Turnout was heavy in the violence-plagued east, where President Joseph Kabila was expecting strong support to keep his job as head of state which he took over when his father Laurent was assassinated in 2001.

Initial counts from some individual eastern polling stations showed him well ahead there, witnesses said.

Standing against Kabila were 31 challengers including several former rebel leaders who fought the Kabilas in the five-year war that devastated the central African country already crippled by 32 years of misrule under dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

UN peacekeepers - 17,000 of them, backed by 1,100 European Union troops - and Congolese police guarded the schools, churches and tents used as polling stations. Many of the more than 25 million registered voters got up early to cast their ballots. Others waited patiently in line for hours.

"This is a great event. I'm 44 years old and this is the first time I've ever voted," said Zawadi Unega in Kinshasa.

More than 9,700 other candidates were bidding for 500 parliament seats in the polls.

Congo has one third of the world's cobalt reserves, as well as copper, gold and diamonds. However, it has known little but war and dictatorship since independence in 1960.

- REUTERS

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10393789

 

[D-Nice 1]

Good read.

D-Nice 1 (The Nice One)

 

[Chitownheadbusa]

While American Media is Focused on dead jews.....400 are killed in congo!!

first and foremost...RIP to all the INNOCENT dead Jews and Muslims over sea's.

now that thats out the way.....i really cant and never have been able to sympathize for these "new" jews over in Isreal.
......fighting on land that was never theirs to begin with.
...having the upper hand on weaker countries due to the weapons that the crooked ass USA gave to them.
....prospering over others pain...fuck em


now...on to the subject at hand.

Christmas massacres 'killed 400' ​

More than 400 people have been killed by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo in attacks since Christmas day, aid agency Caritas says.

The head of Caritas in DR Congo told the BBC some 20,000 people had fled to the mountains from the rebels, who have denied carrying out the attacks.

An eyewitness told the BBC that five people in Faradje had their lips cut off by Lord's Resistance Army fighters.

They were told that it was a warning not to speak ill of the rebels.

The armies of Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo carried out a joint offensive against the rebels in mid-December after LRA leader Joseph Kony again refused to sign a peace deal.

The LRA leader, who has lived in a jungle hideout in north-eastern DR Congo for the last few years, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Uganda's government had been involved in lengthy peace negotiations with the LRA, hosted by the South Sudanese government.

But Mr Kony has demanded that arrest warrants for him and his associates be dropped before any agreement can be struck.

'Hacked to death'

News of the attacks in north-eastern DR Congo began to come out after the weekend when the Ugandan army accused the LRA of hacking to death 45 civilians in a Catholic church near Doruma.


Bruno Mitewo, head of the Catholic aid agency, says that from information they have collated from their parishes on the ground, more than 400 civilians have died in the attacks.

He said that in Faradje 150 civilians had died, almost 75 people in Duru and 215 in Doruma.

The victims had been hacked to death and forced into fires, he said.

"All villages were burned by rebels... we don't know where exactly the population is because all the villages are empty," he told the BBC.

"We have almost 6,500 displaced who are refugees in the parishes of the Catholic Church around the city of Dungu, more than 20,000 people displaced are running to the mountains," he said.

Those who were hiding in the bush and forest were mainly the young, as the LRA tends to kidnap children and recruit them as fighters, he said.

An eyewitness in Faradje said the people who had their lips cut off were being treated for their injuries.

Earlier, LRA spokesman David Nekorach Matsanga told the BBC that the allegations that the massacres had been perpetrated by LRA fighters were untrue.

He said rebel units were not in the areas concerned and said a group of LRA defectors who joined the Ugandan army may have been responsible.

Many thousands of Congolese villagers fled their homes after LRA attacks near Dungu in October.

Countries from Uganda to the Central African Republic have suffered 20 years of terror inflicted by the LRA.

Tens of thousands of children have been abducted to be fighters and sex slaves.

Uganda's government said the joint offensive had destroyed some 70% of the LRA camps in DR Congo.

BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says that Mr Kony's force is relatively small - about 650 strong - but the difficulty is that when it is hit, it scatters and then regroups.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7804470.stm