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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Ugandan rebels in eastern Congo have ruthlessly killed at least 620 people in the past month, human rights groups said over the weekend.
The Uganda rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, hacked to death villagers in its path as it fled a multinational military offensive aimed at driving it out of northeastern Congo....
Related: White Collar War Crimes; Black African Fall Guys
Human Rights Watch said that many of the attacks appeared to have been premeditated and that victims’ skulls had been crushed with wooden bats and axes.
In the village of Batande on Dec. 25, rebels killed the men and boys with blows to the head and raped women and girls before crushing their skulls, the statement said. Some 80 people died. The rebels then “ate the Christmas feast the villagers had prepared, and then slept among the dead bodies,” the statement said....
If I didn't know better, I'd accuse the Zionist MSM of racism when it comes to Africa, but....
And, of course, the Globe wouldn't want us to know about the bank lootings of AmeriKan taxpayers!
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.... An overwhelming majority saw the bailout program as a no-strings-attached windfall that could be used to pay down debt, acquire other businesses or invest for the future.
Where is YOUR NO-STRINGS WINDFALL, 'eh, Amurka?
Speaking at the FBR Capital Markets conference in New York in December, Walter M. Pressey, president of Boston Private Wealth Management, a healthy bank with a mostly affluent clientele, said there were no immediate plans to do much with the $154 million it received from the Treasury.
“With that capital in hand, not only do we feel comfortable that we can ride out the recession,” he said, “but we also feel that we’ll be in a position to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves once this recession is sorted out.”
The bankers’ comments, while representing only a random sampling of the more than 200 financial institutions that have received TARP money so far, underscore a growing gulf between public expectations for how the $700 billion should be used and the decisions being made by many of the institutions that have taken part. The program does not dictate what banks should do with the money....
This after the Congress creeps assured us there were safeguards and oversight, etc. What cretinous scum!
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