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scoutsout80
03-17-2010, 12:07 AM
Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)

March 16, 2010: Attacks on civilians by the Ugandan rebel Lords Resistance Army (LRA) and the Rwandan Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) receive condemnation from the UN and a fair amount of press coverage. However, aid workers and UN monitors frequently criticize the Congolese Army (FARDC) for committing the same kind of atrocities on civilians (kidnapping, rape, and other sexual violence). The record is abysmal. It's estimated that half of the rapes committed in North Kivu province in the first seven months of 2009 were committed by Congolese Army troops. That's right, crimes and in some cases war crimes committed against the very people they are supposed to be protecting. The government calls it criminal behavior by individuals and says the soldiers will be punished, but this rarely happens. The documented cases of gang rape by soldiers indicates that it's an organized crime. UN trainers working with the Congolese Army talk about command problems in the FARDC. One of the major problems is the number of militia groups that have been integrated into the military in terms of pay, but still operate as if they were rebel militias. The justice system in the Congo is ineffective, to say the least, and the military justice system weak and often corrupt.

March 10, 2010: Former rebel officers in the National Congress for Defense of the People (CNDP) of running crime rackets. The former rebel officers (several of them now serving as officers in the Congolese Army) are extorting money from civilian miners who work in the region's numerous mines. The military force charged with protecting the mines charges the miners a fee to work at the mine. This is the same racket the militias ran. Now the militiamen are part of the army and they run the same scam. The CNDP was run by General Laurent Nkunda (who is now under arrest in Rwanda.)

March 8, 2010: The government has begun another weapons turn in program. This one is nicknamed “a firearm for 50 dollars.” The program is designed to reduce the number of firearms in the eastern Congo. The government expects between 20,000 and 30,000 weapons will be traded for the cash. The program is being implemented in North Kivu province.

March 4, 2010: The UN is once again talking about withdrawing its peacekeeping contingent. Withdrawals from MONUC (UN Mission in the Congo) could begin as early as this June. The withdrawal discussion has taken several interesting political twists and the June date is completely political. The government plans to celebrate the Congo's 50th anniversary of independence from Belgium in June. The Congo, however, is not stable and war continues to plague the eastern Congo. MONUC has indicated the June withdrawals (if they actually occur) will involve troops deployed in the western Congo.

March 3, 2010: Eighteen army battalions began a new operation against the FDLR in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. UN peacekeepers are supporting this very large Congolese operation.

February 25, 2010: A U.S. Marine Corps task force (assigned to AFRICOM) has begun training Congolese Army soldiers, with 30 Marine trainers in the town of Kisangani. For the next eight months the Marines will instruct a battalion of 1,000 Congolese soldiers. The AFRICOM statement said that the Marines will focus on military skills but also emphasize human rights standards. The Congolese Army desperately needs reliable units. It appears that AFRICOM intends to help create a skilled battalion, a “building block” unit that can be used as an example for other Congolese military units.

nastyleg
03-17-2010, 01:50 AM
Did the UN report on thier soldiers rape of civilians while they were documenting the crimes? No oh no what a shocker...

ianstone
03-17-2010, 02:06 AM
They only know hunger, pain, brutality, rape and torture. That sits on top of a pile of sticking and rotten corruption.
Where only one per cent of the populous have what is worth having. Well, well, that's the government and top army officials

Reactor-Axe-Man
03-17-2010, 03:27 AM
I can't stress the importance of reading this essay enough - Let Africa Sink

http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/36/

ianstone
03-17-2010, 06:31 AM
It is a question of morality.
Each of our own countries have political corruption, we also have people living in fear, homeless and hungry.
Along with that we sell masses of arms and munitions and sell them cheap to other countries to support puppet leaders that make us money.
Countries we need to make money, we turn a blind eye to mass murder and even genocide. Just because we want something they have, like cheap labour.
Trade with other countries should be fair trade, because the more we squeeze the less they have, so massive corruption is extensive.

We as capitalists companies take the huge profits leaving only despair.
Now and only now does poverty, local government corruption and unrest begin.
The absence of a stable government causes the rule of law to brake down.
In to the vacuum go the fundamentalists to recruit terrorists by promising them,
a good religion the will make a man the master of his own home and land.

Were do we send millions in aid to, pumping in the mighty dollar, here's corruption again.
Then the spineless impotent UN step and wait months before anything is really done,
because most of the western and eastern world want low costs and they sit on the fence
until refugees and such like start, flooding our countries.
The corrupt politicians and retired military men flew out years ago we big bank accounts.
Now we have completed the cycle.

Now goes the US led Coalition, that's if it can find any other than the loyal few.
Men fight men die, Whole families feel the pain of the lost sons and daughters
Sound familiar, yep capitalism and our nations are right at the top.
Which is worse the rape of innocent person or the rape of a nation?
Are we in a literal sense all are guilty, but we don't pull the triggers on guns and RPG's.
They guard cheap labour, money talks.

How cheap was you last t shirt or item and were was it made.
Mine as i sit here all but my underwear is made in China, underwear Vietnam.
My own country has homeless, that I pretend are not there.
We have horrific rapes and murders, and corrupt politicians.
Problems with drugs and drink drivers,yep and Asian run sweat shops.

We also have over three million illegals and Asian, "no go" parts of cities and towns.
We have cuts to welfare of the old and sick, short staffed hospital.
Our cash is keeping our greedy banks afloat, we spend billions on looking after illegals
We don't have the money to look after our own nationals.

Our prime minister is a blatant lair and has a face like a stubbed out cigar.
Blow'em all to hell, be honest that ain't going to happen.
Let special forces make the right of passage to a new free world.
give them the equipment, to eliminate governments and drug and crime lords.
Give them three months weapons free, no journalists,
after that they can be homeland security force for the new free world.

Or will it. I think the circle will start again?
Whats the answer, Beats me, all I know is that; United we stand, divided we fall.