Congo: Still Struggling for Independence
December 15, 2008, 1:09 pm
Filed under: Africa | Tags: Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo Zaïre, American CIA, Banyamulenge resistance, Belgium, Berlin Conference, Burundi, China, Coltan, Congo Free State, Congolese Independence, Copper, Democratic Republic of Congo, Diamonds, European Settlers, Force Publique, Genocide, Gold, Hutu Puppet Regime, Imperialism, Israeli Mossad, Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Joseph Désiré ‘Sese Seko’ Mobutu, Joseph Kabila, Joseph Kasavubu, Katanga, King Leopold, Laurent Kabila, Lenin, Leopold's Holocaust, Mineral Wealth, Moïse Katumbim, Molybdenum, Patrice Lumumba, Paul Kagame, Refugee Camps, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, Rwandan Tutsis, Slave Labour, Sony, Tin, Uganda, Uranium, US-Backed Invasion, War, Zaire
Filed under: Africa | Tags: Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo Zaïre, American CIA, Banyamulenge resistance, Belgium, Berlin Conference, Burundi, China, Coltan, Congo Free State, Congolese Independence, Copper, Democratic Republic of Congo, Diamonds, European Settlers, Force Publique, Genocide, Gold, Hutu Puppet Regime, Imperialism, Israeli Mossad, Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Joseph Désiré ‘Sese Seko’ Mobutu, Joseph Kabila, Joseph Kasavubu, Katanga, King Leopold, Laurent Kabila, Lenin, Leopold's Holocaust, Mineral Wealth, Moïse Katumbim, Molybdenum, Patrice Lumumba, Paul Kagame, Refugee Camps, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, Rwandan Tutsis, Slave Labour, Sony, Tin, Uganda, Uranium, US-Backed Invasion, War, Zaire
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The following is from the December 2008 issue of the Proletarian, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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Genocidal war has raged in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the 1998 US-backed invasion by the forces of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. At the last estimate, the war has claimed a staggering 5.4 million lives. [i.]
Yet this conflict, the most bloody since the second world war, has generated astoundingly little press coverage, and a diplomatic and political censorship over a 10-year period on the part of western governments that points to complicity, rather than ignorance or indifference.
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