Why don't we hear anything about this??

[Charlie P]

This stuff is happening everyday but for some reason the American public hears little or nothing about it and our goverment ignores it. Why?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/771325.stm

Amnesty International says forces fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo are involved in widespread human rights abuse, including the killing, torture and rape of civilians.

Amnesty report
In a report on the DR Congo published on Wednesday entitled Killing Human Decency, Amnesty said thousands of unarmed civilians have been killed by opposition forces as well as by forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila.


http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20030801/449_7152.asp

When rebels overran Mambasa Oct. 12, the town was the scene of "massive rapes, as well as systematic lootings, destruction of health infrastructures and forced labor," the report said. U.N. investigators blamed two rebel groups, the Congolese Liberation Movement and the Congolese Rally for Democracy-National.


http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa...ongo.count.01/

His report concludes that more than 1.7 million people have died in the central African country because of the war.

But only 200,000 died from war-related violence. Most of the rest died because of the "war-related collapse of the region's health infrastructure and delivery of health and nutrition services," according to the summary of Roberts' study.

"On average, some 2,600 people are dying every day in this war and our research found that the first months of 2000 were even worse than 1999," Roberts said

[Coastie]

Amnesty international has cried wolf so often they are no longer credible. According to them, we in the U.S. are amongst the worst in the world due to the fact we still have the death penalty in some states and at a federal level. I have been hearing for years of abuses in many African nations yet nobody has done anything about it. The United Nations (useless piece of dung that they are) should be the primary mover in this respect, yet they do nothing.
This will never be bannered in the main stream press because the ones doing the looting, raping and pilaging are for the most part, Marxists and that is a little to close to the socialist agenda the media holds so dear. Many may disagree with me on this, but that is my opinion based on observations of that little that is reported.

[Charlie P]

What about Fox news. Do you feel the same about the BBC, they report on it?

[Gobbling Buck]

Charlie P.............I don't get it. From previous threads (WMD's in Iraq), you don't seem to think we should be fighting that front, yet you post a link about the Congo. The answer is, right now the Congo isn't a threat to the US or our domestic interests.

Your stance to me seems to fall on the same lines as PETA! You know..........save the dolphins that are caught in the tuna nets......................WHAT ABOUT THE TUNA?

[Charlie P]

Gobbling Buck, No I've alway's said if we go in to Iraq go kick butt and come home,or at least have an exit policy. I've also said many times we should have ignored the UN and taken Hussein out during Desert Storm. We didn't now were back spending more money and lives. The reason given for going back are cloudy.

Did I say to go to war in the Congo? It just amazes me that we here all this about Husein and absolutely nothing about this situation.

So Iraq was a threat to the USA? Is that what your saying?

[Gobbling Buck]

Charlie P.....seems we have a few goodun's going.

I do feel that Iraq posed a threat to the US and US interests. I feel that Saddam was more ambitious than being a threat only to his immediate neighbors. I too feel that we should have finished the job during the Gulf War, however that was not our mission. Our mission was to stop Iraq's aggression towards Kuwait........when they fell back towards Bagdad our mission was over. If you get the chance, read or watch the Bio of Norman Schwartzkof(spelling), he also wanted nothing more than to go after Hussein.

[Charlie P]

I saw a documentry on the war with a rather powerful interview with ole Norman.I like him.

As far as our mission over there my way of thinking is who cares what the UN wanted us to do.

It's funny that after we hammered their retreating army on the "highway of death" GB decided to end everything. The mission was completed then too, their army was headed home. I think he was right for doing it,but very wrong for stopping.

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[stealthycat]

I strongly suspect Liberal Democrats at the core of this massive coverup .... either that or theres oil in those country's and the Republicans are planning to invade and take over

Seriously though, thats not NEWS Charlie P - its everyday life for thos nations. Sad but true.

[Carpicon]

You people are nuts....

So, just because the middle east has oil, and Africa does not, that's why we're fighting a war in Iraq?

Using the same logic, I conclude that this war in Iraq is all about shoelaces.

You see, in Iraq, the income of the average family is higher than most other middle eastern countries, thus the per-capita ownership of shoes and shoelaces is 55-74% higher than most other Middle Eastern countries. We desperately need these vital supplies of shoelaces to keep American children's shoes nice and tight.

They don't even wear shoes in the Congo, let alone laces. It is not in the vital interest of the American economy or the American foot to go to war with the Congo.

P.S. Do you think it is a coincidence that President Bush and every single member of his cabinet and administration have previous ties to wearing shoelaces, and that they have been photographed as recently as Jan 6th, 2004 wearing similar laces? I think not.

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