Like the 1,400 people that die every day and as it turns out ALL the KILLERS can be traced back to CLINTONITE GLOBALISTS (you know, the SAME ONES STAFFING OBAMA's administration) and UNPROSECUTED WESTERN WAR CRIMINALS! Again, FOR RESOURCES!
If you didn't know any better you would think the Zionist AmeriKan MSM is racist and black Africans, but that couldn't be true. The paper would never lie to push an agenda-pushing image or cover-up more nefarious activities, would they?
"Clinton presses Congo to end bloodshed; Underscores illegal mining as a fuel of violence" by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times | August 11, 2009
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday to pressure the Congolese government and the United Nations to end the longstanding bloodshed here, taking special aim at the illicit mineral trade that helps fuel the conflict.
The TWO-FACED DUPLICITY of this WAR-CRIMINAL WITCH is REALLY SOMETHING!
“I am particularly concerned about the exploitation of natural resources,’’ she said, referring to Congo’s vast reserves of diamonds, gold, copper, tin, and other minerals.
Yeah, I'LL BET SHE IS! They IS OURS!!!!!
And you SEE WHY the CONGO is UNDERCOVERED (among other reasons, right)?
She said that illegal mining was one of the root causes of Congo’s violence and that armed groups were sustaining themselves off the mineral riches. “There is a lot of money being made in eastern Congo,’’ she said.
Yeah, and THOSE GUYS are EMPLOYED by US!!!!
Eastern Congo might be Africa’s worst war right now, and Clinton is hoping her visit will revitalize efforts to end to a dizzyingly complex conflict involving neighboring countries, dozens of rebel groups, and a toxic mix of ethnic and commercial interests. The fighting and its fallout - mass displacement, hunger, and disease - have claimed millions of lives in the past decade.
Yeah, about "10 million" and it is CONTINUING as I SPEAK!
Of course, that would BLOW AWAY the FANTASY FIGURE of 6 million you-know-who's that is CONSTANTLY SHOVED IN OUR FACES so the DEAD BLACK PEOPLE must be IGNORED -- especially when it is an Israeli weapons-running ring profiting from the exploitation and genocide.
Take a look.
Today, Clinton will fly to Goma, in the heart of the battle zone. The city was nearly overrun by rebels last year and is situated in a bowl of beautiful but treacherous green mountains, making it difficult for aircraft to land and resulting in several fatal air crashes in the recent years. But Clinton said the importance of the visit outweighed the risks....
What, as if she was in any way threatened? That sure is a weird statement.
In Goma, Clinton plans to meet several women who have been raped, the human consequences of this protracted war. The United Nations calls eastern Congo the rape capital of the world because hundreds of thousands of women have been sexually assaulted by the various militias haunting the hills. Recently, there has been a spike in cases of men raping men.
I'm speechless.
“Women are being turned into weapons of war,’’ Clinton said on the plane from Angola to Congo, the fourth stop on her seven-nation African tour.
Yeah, THANKS for MAKING the REGION a HELL HOLE -- you and your hubby!
The Congo visit has a sharper point to it than many of the other stops. Clinton has cast herself as an advocate for women - and in many ways she is a role model across the world - and eastern Congo desperately needs something to lift it out of its morass.
I'm going to wait until the reporter extracts his head from her fat ass.
Yesterday, Clinton shared the stage at a town hall meeting with Dikembe Mutombo, a Congolese basketball player who made millions in the NBA and came home to build a hospital.
Mutombo spoke passionately of his country’s problems and the sense of defeat creeping across the land. “Don’t lose your hope’’ he told the students gathered at the meeting. “That is what is happening in Congo, especially among young people. You are losing hope. You are thinking that nobody cares about you.’’
Well, it is HARD to LIVE ON HOPE!
After a WHILE, HOPE goes STALE and YOU NEED REAL CHANGE!!!
The FACT IS NO ONE DOES CARE, Dike!
Clinton has explained that a big part of her Africa tour is to show that America does care about the continent, and not just because President Obama had a Kenyan father.
Why should we have to WORK SO HARD to PROVE we are SO GOOD?
Aren't we the MODEL NATION, blah-blah?
See how the MSM gets ENSNARED in their OWN PROPAGANDA and LIES?
--more--"And if we CARED SO MUCH then WHY did the GLOBE IGNORE THIS COMPLETELY!?
This one NEVER EVEN MADE the WEBSITE!
"U.N.: 35,000 displaced by new fighting in Congo
July 25, 2009
(CNN) -- A new outbreak of fighting in the embattled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced 35,000 people from their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said. Thousands of people have fled parts of South Kivu province and have relocated to Congo's borders with Rwanda and Burundi, the agency reported.
The mass exodus was spurred by this month's new offensive by the Congo government against the ethnic Hutu militia, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. This latest uprooting brings the total number of civilians displaced in South Kivu since the start of the year to about 536,000 people, according to Ron Redmond, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
More than 1.8 million people are now internally displaced in the volatile region, he added. Some places in the region, such as Lemera and Mulenge, are like ghost towns, sitting nearly empty with almost 20,000 people believed to be hiding in forests in the area, the agency said.
"We are monitoring the situation of those most vulnerable, identifying people at risk and with specific needs, including victims of sexual violence and arbitrary detention," the spokesman said.
Several human rights agencies have said there is a rise in sexual assaults on women in the region. Human Rights Watch released a report this month that said the United Nations had registered 7,703 cases of sexual violence in 2008. Military courts in the province convicted 27 soldiers of crimes of sexual violence during 2008. In March 2009, 11 soldiers were convicted on charges of rape as a crime against humanity, the report said.
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When Was the Last Time You Heard About.... the Congo?
And the Globe is ignoring this (the agenda must be supporting it then, huh)?
Maybe this is why:
"Congo Rapes, Violence Linked To Multinational Companies: Rights Group
The militarization of mining in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is prolonging the armed conflict which has been tearing the country apart for more than 12 years. In their broader struggle to seize economic, political and military power, all the main warring parties have carried out the most horrific human rights abuses, including widespread killings of unarmed civilians, rape, torture and looting, recruitment of child soldiers to fight in their ranks, and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. The lure of eastern Congo's mineral riches is one of the factors spurring them on."
"Congolese remember victims of massacre" by Jazmine Ulloa, Globe Correspondent | August 16, 2009
CONCORD, N.H. - .... What happened in Gatumba has origins in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi people, but stretches back further to the colonization of the Congolese by the Belgians in the 1900s, which first divided the country’s people along ethnic lines, Mandevu said.
Look at the shameless media pull it all the way back a hundred years.
Of course, IN BETWEEN they were LIVING more-or-less PEACEFULLY, intermarrying and such things.
It is NOT UNTIL the RESOURCE QUESTS BEGAN in the 1990s under CLINTON that ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!!!!!!
Since 1996, the Congo has been wracked with warfare and civil unrest that has left more than 5 million dead by some counts, mainly from disease and starvation.
TRY DOUBLING IT -- as if it were NOT FROM WAR!
The hostility forced many to flee to the neighboring countries of Burundi and Rwanda, especially hundreds of Tutsi, who were seen as foreigners. In Gatumba, the Banyamulenge were supposed to be safe. But Hutu extremists broke through the country’s borders, torching the camp as they slaughtered and maimed hundreds....
To Olivier Mandevu, president of the Gatumba Refugee Survivors Foundation, the killings at the refugee camp were more than a massacre, they are genocide, a word the international community has been hesitant to use and he does not understand why, he said during his keynote speech....
Because it ALWAYS DEPENDS on the APPROVAL of the (rhymes with) you-know-who.
Gunshots were familiar sounds in the United Nations refugee camp in Gatumba in western Burundi, where she had arrived two months before to escape the increasing violence in her native country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But when she peered through the thin, transparent plastic of her canopy, she saw a stream of men and women in tears fleeing and flames engulfing the tent across from hers.
It was about 10 o’clock on Aug. 13, 2004.... the night Hutu rebels stormed through Gatumba, killing at least 166 refugees and injuring and maiming another 116, mostly people of Banyamulenge Tutsi ethnicity....
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WALIKALE, Congo - .... Passing the late afternoon under the pink blooms of a sprawling pear tree, one of those veterans, Louis Ngumbi, recalled his brutal induction in 1940 into the army of Congo’s colonial ruler, Belgium....
African battlefields figure prominently in the history of World War II. But the story of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served in campaigns mostly for British and French colonial rulers is only beginning to be fully told.
WTF?
Much like African-American soldiers who served in a mostly segregated US Army during the war, African soldiers served under racist colonial structures that were at times challenged by the urgencies of war.
We getting a civil rights lesson now?
When the war ended, though, African soldiers often received little compensation for lost hands, legs, eyes, and other war-related disabilities. Some never got pensions.
I see ARMIES haven't CHANGED MUCH.
As waves of nationalism gave way to Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s, the soldiers often turned on their colonial officers. In other cases, revolutionaries branded the old colonial forces as traitors.
References to Congo’s involvement in World War II are usually limited to Shinkolobwe, the mine that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Oh, hoo-ray! This is DISGUSTING JOURNALISM, readers!
Mentions of Congolese soldiers appear here and there: in academic articles; in a bombastic account published in a 1941 pamphlet by the Belgian Information Society of New York; in an apology in Time magazine after it omitted the role of Congolese “recruited’’ by the Belgians for the war.
“These days, nobody thinks about us much,’’ said Ngumbi, who now lives at a dilapidated camp for veterans, a stretch of mud-walled buildings populated mostly these days by their descendants....
More NEGLECTED SOLDIERS, 'eh?
But DROPPING the BOMB was the BIG THING!
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Oh, I forget; there was a SLOW SATURDAY opinion piece that GOT AT SOME of the TRUTH!
BUKAVU, Congo
BEING HELD at gunpoint by 30 drunk and angry militia in the middle of the night on a deserted road in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan when we started out the day. But my traveling companions and I were digging into the links between the illicit mining of Congo’s “conflict minerals’’ and a deadly war, and we didn’t expect a walk in the park. We had visited a gold mine contested by some particularly vengeful armed groups, and this militia had lost out in controlling the mine and wasn’t happy about the result. After hours of negotiations, guns poked into ribs, and death threats, we emerged relatively unscathed and $1,000 poorer. Congolese civilians, however, are rarely so fortunate.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo next week provides the opportunity to demonstrate the importance of ending the world’s most pronounced use of rape as a weapon. She will hopefully signal a greater investment in peacemaking and civilian protection by the United States. But private-sector action is equally needed. An essential ingredient for the solution will be the success of an embryonic consumer campaign in which American and European buyers of cellphones, laptops, and iPods begin to demand conflict-free electronics products that don’t source their essential materials from mines that produce deadly conflict.
Yes, some of those minerals are ONLY TO BE FOUND in the CONGO!
This year has seen a major spike in human rights violations, in particular violence against women and girls, the abduction of children as soldiers or sex slaves, the burning of houses or entire villages, and the systematic looting of civilians.
Yeah, MOSTLY BY OUR GUYS or the U.N-PROTECTED and BACKED GOVERNMENT!
The humanitarian crisis has deepened dramatically with half a million newly displaced since the beginning of 2009. All this is fueled by a scramble for one of the world’s richest non-petroleum resource bases, overlaid by a Congolese government offensive backed by the United Nations, a destructive campaign for which Secretary Clinton should urge immediate suspension.
Oh, I AGREE on that LAST ONE!
I SEE why the GLOBE IGNORED the OFFENSIVE, don't you?
We interviewed a number of women who had survived horrific sexual attacks during this campaign. Systematic rape has evolved over the last dozen years of war as a tool of social control or collective punishment against civilian populations deemed supportive of opposing armed groups. All the armed groups are now using rape as a component of their military operations, to terrorize, humiliate, demoralize and subjugate targeted communities.
Ironically, the international community spends well in excess of $2 billion a year treating the symptoms of the Congolese crisis (with peacekeeping and emergency assistance), but roughly one-tenth of 1 percent of what we spend on aid and peacekeepers is spent on addressing the main fuel for its continuation: conflict minerals.
Yeah, AFTER they spend HOW MUCH STARTING all this?
Ever notice that WHEREVER the U.N. GOES death and destruction follow?
Most diplomacy seems not to recognize two dark and little-acknowledged realities: that the Congolese government actually promotes insecurity to allow its top officials to enrich themselves in the illegal smuggling of Congo’s natural resources, and neighboring Rwanda’s and Uganda’s economic growth is in part fueled by their involvement in the smuggling and violence. One mineral merchant told me he would be killed if he went on camera to talk about these issues.
Because the multinational corporations hide the direct connections between their demand for Congo’s natural resources and the destruction of human life in that country, especially women and girls, we don’t realize that the solution lies in part with us as electronics consumers.
I notice the MSM DOING the SAME THINGS!
Never really getting at the ROOT of the PROBLEMS, because to DO THAT would EXPOSE Ms. Whats-her-name here!
The “blood diamonds’’ case provides a crucial precedent. Until there was general consumer uproar about the effect Western demand for a precious commodity was having on the people of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Angola, those conflicts continued to burn, with Western consumers providing all the fuel necessary to keep the wars going indefinitely.
More like GOVERNMENTS!
Electronics companies should pressure their suppliers to ensure that these minerals don’t originate in mines that fuel the war and corruption, and allow independent audits to prove it.
Mining could be the engine of Congo’s peaceful development.
And CUI BONO when it is NOT?
Such a result will come more quickly if companies, governments, and other stakeholders can agree on a system to trace, audit, and certify conflict-free minerals that go in our electronics products and jewelry.
We DO NOT NEED MORE GLOBALISM here!
What we need is for the WEST and CORPORATIONS to STOP EXPLOITING the situation and QUIT ARMING the place to the teeth!
And SCREW the electronic gizmos and the "jew"elery for a change.
This would change the incentive structure away from violence and illegality toward security and rule of law in Congo. Only when it becomes more profitable to exploit the minerals legally will there be sufficient incentive for peace in Congo.
Yeah, PEACE for its OWN SAKE is NO GOOD!
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I guess I must be a real pie-eyed, idealistic dope, huh, world?
People living in peace! As if anyone has ever heard of such a thing!
