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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

[…]

“They kill, they rape, burn houses and take people’s belongings,” Jeanne said. “When they come with their guns, it’s as if they have a project to eliminate the local population.”

A peer-reviewed study found that 5.4 million people had already died in this war as of April 2007, and hundreds of thousands more have died as the situation has deteriorated since then. A catastrophically planned military offensive last year, backed by the governments of Congo and Rwanda as well as the United Nations force here, made some headway against Hutu militias but also led to increased predation on civilians from all sides.


Read the full article here.

Raise Hope for Congo.


x-posted to tumblr. i'm guessing a bit of you have already seen the recent post on ontd_political, but not everyone on my f-list is an lj stalker like i am, so i wanted to spread this around. i don't know what else i can do right now but try to get as many people aware as possible, and hope that some of them can carry more weight than i'm able to at the moment.
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via [livejournal.com profile] rawthorne;

Sonoma County, CA, has separated an elderly gay couple after one of the partners fell down the stairs and required medical attention. To add insult to injury, county authorities placed the other partner in a separate nursing home, denied him access to his SO and auctioned off their home and possessions.

Please sign the petition here to encourage the local paper, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, to print this story and get the word out about this travesty.



i read about (and saw) this yesterday here. it just, sickens me. and scares me a lot that it happened in such a 'gay friendly' area. please spread the word, you guys. it's only one incident of many, but that makes it all the more important that it's brought to everyone's attention.

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