Sunday 2 November 2008

Congo Crisis

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/11/01/congo.rebel/art.children.ap.jpg

Africa do we really need to see this image of our own people esspecially children going through this form of conditions again and again? Why can't the leaders of these African nations Rwanda and Congo including the rebel leader STOP this now and save the lives of our people.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/10/29/congo.fighting/art.congo.afp.gi.jpg
Congolese soldiers and displaced civilians move into Goma on Wednesday, fleeing advancing rebels. More than 50,000 people are on the road, surely will there be peace in mother Africa? Nkunda has accused the Congolese government of failing to protect the Tutsi tribe from Rwandan Hutu militia in Congo. Can he surely tell us that whatever he is doing now is protecting any body if this is the image we can see of women, children and men suffering.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/10/28/congo.fighting/art.congo.refugees.afp.gi.jpg

By the way this is not a convention but thousands of displaced Congolese on Tuesday lining the road near the Kibati camp north of Goma, Congo. This is the image the leaders want to see as they are not part of this group of people.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/10/27/congo.united.nations/art.congo.afp.gi.jpg

These so called good guys are in Congo but what is their role in all this, can they really tell us wheter they are protecting any body or they are just joy riding around Congo and only protecting themselves.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/10/15/congo.women/art.eve.congo.jpgA Congolese rape victim recovers at a hospital. Rape victims often face widespread rejection.

Did this woman really deserve all this?

"Obscene. Horrible. Out of control...." The activist tosses out a cluster of angry words, trying to describe what is, in some ways, indescribable.

She talks about a woman being gang-raped by 15 soldiers. Some violated with sticks and knives. Cannibalism.

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