please raise awareness
Jul. 6th, 2010 09:27 amSometimes 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.
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“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.