Congo conflict
January 23, 2009 - 10:25am
The conflict in Congo pops up from time-to-time so I thought I'd start a thread.
There's been a lot of developments that are interesting but it's hard to get a sense of what to think of them.
The most interesting and recent is the capture of "rebel" leader Laurent Nkunda by a joint Rwandan-Congolese task force. Given that the UN was reporting mere months ago that Rwanda was funding and supporting Nkunda this is interesting indeed.
There's a real possibility that Nkunda is simply a fall guy.
Some analysis in the Guardian. It's not bad but it does repeat the myth that Rwanda is booming thanks to some sort of unique vision of Kagame and not because foreign aid has poured in by the billions.
UN draft report calls DR Congo crimes genocide
The BBC has seen a draft UN report that says crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo could be classified as genocide.
The report details how they targeted Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus in DR Congo, from 1993-2003.
oops
Key excerpts from the U.N. report
A UN report into massacres of Hutu civilians in DR Congo after the Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been leaked ahead of its official publication.
Experts say it is the first rigorous investigation - the researchers required two independent sources for each of the 600 incidents documented in their 545-page report - into alleged atrocities committed in eastern DR Congo between 1993 and 2003. Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated government has dismissed the claims as "rubbish".
There is a good deal of related material and background also at:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/african-affa...
Canada was and is heavily involved in the region's deliberate destabilization
You're right, NDPP, and I should have really posted in that thread instead of in this old one. Thanks for the link.
U: I think Congo easily warrants its own thread..