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Posted: Saturday December 18th, 2004 16:04 |
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A Deadly Reversal
Why Does No One Care That The World’s Worst Conflict Has Broken Out Again?
by George Monbio
I hope that the newspapers do not represent public opinion. If they do, it means that we consider the Home Secretary's love affair several hundred times more important than the resumption of the most deadly conflict since the Second World War. On Sunday the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), already responsible for 3.8 million deaths, started again.(1) If you missed it, you're in good company.
The Rwandan army appears to have crossed back into north-eastern DRC. Rival factions of the Congolese army - some of them loyal to Rwanda - have started fighting each other. As usual, it's the civilians who are being killed - and raped and tortured and forced to flee into the forest. Last week, before the fighting resumed, the International Rescue Committee reported that over 1000 people a day are still dying from disease and malnutrition caused by the last conflict. Nearly half of them are children under five.(2)
Rwanda has already invaded the DRC (or Zaire, as it used to be called), twice. In both cases it appeared to
have justification. The Interahamwe militias who had killed 800,000 Rwandans fled there after the genocide in 1994. They were sheltered first by President Mobutu, then by President Kabila. They wanted to reinvade Rwanda and resume the genocide.
But after moving into the eastern DRC for the second time, in 1998, Rwanda more or less forgot about the genocidaires. It had found something more interesting: minerals. Better armed than the other forces in the region, the Rwandan army concentrated on seeking to monopolise the trade in diamonds and coltan. By 1999, according a report for the UN Security Council, 80% of the Rwandan military budget - around $320 million a year - was coming from minerals stolen from the DRC.(3)
The six African armies which had been drawn into the conflict, their proxy militias and the government of the DRC started fighting a monumental turf war over the mines. Millions of people fled their homes. Thousands were captured and forced to mine or to work as prostitutes. Rwanda's operation was by far the most efficient. According to Amnesty International, it was controlled directly from the capital, Kigali.(4) Even after 2002, when the armies officially withdrew, the Rwandan government left its men in the eastern DRC to continue running the mines.(5) The latest invasion appears to be a thinly-disguised attempt to deal with the militias which threaten its lucrative business.
Though we are rightly exercised about the atrocities in Darfur, it is hard to find anyone who gives a damn about the Congo. This is partly because we are used to seeing the Rwandan government forces as the good guys - the people who first suffered at the hands of the genocidaires, and then drove them out of their country. It's hard to adjust to the fact that good guys can become bad ones, harder still to recognise that they can become some of the world's bloodiest war criminals.
Those who believe that Paul Kagame's government can do no wrong concentrate their attacks on a report published in 2002 by the United Nations.(6) They allege that it has been subject to power-play between the members of the Security Council. But they fail to explain why Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, Global Witness, the British all-party parliamentary group and the US State Department have all, independently, come to the same conclusions.(7)
The reports produced by these bodies run to hundreds of pages, full of eye-witness accounts and the direct testimony of both survivors and perpetrators. They make dreadful, horrifying reading. They show how troops have repeatedly raped children as young as three; have sliced off the genitals of women who resist being raped; have forced women and children to work in terrifying conditions in the mines: scores have been buried alive. They have torched villages, looted homes, killed those who resist or those who appear to have helped the other side, and forced millions to flee into the jungle. Most of the 3.8 million have died of malnutrition and disease; but had the marauding armies filled them with lead, they could scarcely have had greater responsibility for their deaths.
The reports give the names of both agents and victims, the dates of the crimes, the precise locations, the value of the stolen resources and the names of the people and companies who bought them. It is very hard to see how they could all be disputed.
Some people, such as the former Guardian journalist Victoria Brittain, have claimed that Rwanda's critics have confused "the disciplined Rwandan army and the chaotic rebel groups".( While all the armed forces who have fought in the DRC since 1998 have committed atrocities, the Rwandan army is named in the documents again and again. The State Department, for example, summarises "numerous credible reports" of regular Rwandan troops "killing, torturing, or raping" people in North and South Kivu and northern Maniema Province.(9)
It is not easy to see, anyway, where the moral difference lies between killing people and commissioning others to do so on your behalf. Rwanda's proxy, the RCD-Goma militia, has committed innumerable atrocities all over the east. The Rwandan government is directly responsible for both its formation and its survival. In June this year, Global Witness reported that "the RCD was put together in Kigali [the Rwandan capital] rather than in the Congo" and "still remained highly dependent on its Rwandan backers to finance its military deployment in the region".(10) Amnesty International reports that the Rwandan army supplied this force with "rocket launchers, armoured cars, machine guns, light artillery, mortars and landmines".(11)
None of the reports disputes that the DRC's government in Kinshasa has also been responsible for crimes against humanity in the east of the country. But in much of this region, its writ hardly runs. As a UN report leaked to the BBC last week confirms, Rwanda and its proxy militias are the most powerful forces in the eastern DRC.(12) They control most of the minerals trade and have been involved in almost all the fighting.
Rwanda could have wiped out the Interahamwe - which is now a much smaller and weaker force than it used to be - years ago. As the International Crisis Group points out, "Rwanda had exclusive and total military control over the eastern half of the Congo between 1996 and 2002 and failed to neutralise and repatriate all its nationals."(13) Instead, it has repeatedly used its presence as an excuse to occupy the mineral-rich regions. As the British parliamentary group reports, the Rwandan army was often "located in areas where the Interahamwe did not exist, or were at least 50km away."(14) In some places, the army has even formed alliances with the Interahamwe to control the mines. Now, using the old excuse, the Rwandan government is dragging the eastern Congo back into war.
It would not be hard for the international community, and the British government in particular, to defuse the world's most deadly conflict. Rwanda is a tiny, frail state, which would collapse without foreign aid, over one third of which comes from Britain.(15) But nothing will happen until we wake up to this dreadful war, and stop pretending that the victims of atrocious crimes cannot also be perpetrators.
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References:
1. No author, 12 December, 2004. New fighting erupts in DR Congo. BBC News online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4090717.stm
2. International Rescue Committee, December 2004. Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Results from a Nationwide Survey, Conducted April - July 2004.
http://www.theirc.org/pdf/DRC_MortalitySurvey2004_RB_8Dec04.pdf
3. United Nations Security Council, October 2002. Final report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN, New York.
4. Amnesty International, 1st April 2003. Democratic Republic of the Congo: "Our brothers who help kill us" - economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR620102003
5. United Nations Security Council, ibid.
6. United Nations Security Council, ibid.
7. Amnesty International, 1st April 2003. Democratic Republic of the Congo: "Our brothers who help kill us" - economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR620102003
Human Rights Watch, June 2004. D.R. Congo: War Crimes in Bukavu. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/11/congo8803.htm
Human Rights Watch, 19th November 2004. D.R. Congo: End Arms Flows as Ethnic Tensions Rise.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/19/congo9697.htm
Human Rights Watch, 4th December 2004. Democratic Republic of Congo - Rwanda Conflict.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/04/congo9767.htm
The International Crisis Group, 7th July 2004. Pulling Back From The Brink In The Congo. http://www.icg.org/home/index.cfm?id=2854&l=1
Global Witness, June 2004. Same Old Story - Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/download.php/00141.pdf
The All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region and Genocide Prevention, November 2002. Cursed by Riches: Who Benefits from Resource Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? http://www.appggreatlakes.org/content/pdf/riches.pdf
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Department. 31st March 2003. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2002. Rwanda. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18221.htm
8. Victoria Brittain, 15th April 2004. Rwanda Confounds Its Critics. The Guardian.
9. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Department. 31st March 2003. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2002. Rwanda. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18221.htm
10. Global Witness, June 2004. Same Old Story - Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/download.php/00141.pdf
11. Amnesty International, 1st April 2003. Democratic Republic of the Congo: "Our brothers who help kill us" - economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR620102003
12. Mark Doyle, 10th December 2004. Rwanda Controls DR Congo, UN Says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4085463.stm
13. The International Crisis Group, 7th July 2004. Pulling Back From The Brink In The Congo. http://www.icg.org/home/index.cfm?id=2854&l=1
14. The All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region and Genocide Prevention, November 2002. Cursed by Riches: Who Benefits from Resource Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? http://www.appggreatlakes.org/content/pdf/riches.pdf
15. Jonathan Clayton, 26th June 2004. British Mission Heads off War in Central Africa. The Times
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Posted: Sunday December 19th, 2004 19:55 |
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A Deadly Reversal
Why Does No One Care That The World’s Worst Conflict Has Broken Out Again?
by George Monbiot; December 14, 2004
I hope that the newspapers do not represent public opinion. If they do, it means that we consider the Home Secretary's love affair several hundred times more important than the resumption of the most deadly conflict since the Second World War. On Sunday the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), already responsible for 3.8 million deaths, started again.(1) If you missed it, you're in good company.
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Posted: Sunday December 19th, 2004 19:57 |
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Posted: Sunday December 19th, 2004 20:35 |
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Posted: Sunday December 19th, 2004 21:25 |
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What can i say.... This Christmas as everybody is celebrating, us Congolaise all we can do is sit in agonising pain as we see our country being reaped apart because the rest of the world is too busy either going after imaginary terrorists or stealing our mineral wealth.
Rwanda has literally been given the green card by the UN to attack our country in the pretense that it is going after the Hutu rebels, this of course is rubbish. All evidence shows that most of them have died by diseases or been killed in sporadic fightings. Most of them now are actually younger generation of Hutu refugees who were NOT involved in the 1998 genocide in Rwanda. All they want is to go home, but they scared that their government is going to kill them when they leave Congo.
Nobody is disputing the fact that there are still some fraction of the the rebels that took part in the genocide, The UN along with the Congolaise army had started disarming them for a few months before Rwanda attacked. They don't want to know because they have been seduced by the prospects of getting rich by stealing the country's vast mineral wealth.
I cannot describe the helplessness that we all feel..........
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Posted: Sunday December 19th, 2004 22:00 |
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When I was in Belgium I met a lot of Congolese...even a few Muslims
Brussels has a large Congolese community.
Shocked the HELL out of me when I saw so many! 
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 13:53 |
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From: New York Times
by Marc Lacey
In the corner of the tent where she says a soldier forced himself on her, Helen, a frail fifth grader with big eyes and skinny legs, remembers seeing a blue helmet.
The United Nations peacekeeper who tore off her clothes had used a cup of milk to lure her close, she said in her high-pitched voice, fidgeting as she spoke. It was her favorite drink, she said, but one her family could rarely afford. "I was so happy," she said.
After she gulped it down, the foreign soldier pulled Helen, a 12-year-old, into bed, she said. About an hour later, he gave her a dollar, put a finger to his lips and pushed her out of his tent, she said.
In this same eastern outpost, another United Nations peacekeeper, unable to communicate with a 13-year-old Swahili-speaking girl who walked past him, held up a cookie and gestured for her to draw near. As the girl, Solange, who recounted the incident with tears in her eyes the other day, reached for the cookie, the soldier reached for her. She, too, said she was raped.
The United Nations said recently that it had uncovered 150 allegations of sexual abuse committed by United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Congo, many of them here in Bunia where the population has already suffered horrendous atrocities committed by local fighters. The raping of women and girls is an all-too-common tactic in the war raging in Congo's eastern jungles involving numerous militia groups. In Bunia, a program run by Unicef has treated 2,000 victims of sexual violence in recent months. But it is not just the militia members who have been preying on the women. So, too, local women say, have some of the soldiers brought in to keep the peace.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said recently that there was "clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken place" in the United Nations mission in Congo, which began in early 2000 and is known by its French acronym, Monuc. Mr. Annan added, "This is a shameful thing for the United Nations to have to say, and I am absolutely outraged by it."
The number of cases may be impossible for United Nations investigators to determine precisely. Helen and Solange said in recent interviews that they had not told their stories even to their parents, never mind to United Nations officials. Rape carries a heavy stigma here, both girls made clear. They told their stories when approached by a reporter.
"I didn't tell my mother because she would beat me," said a grim-faced Solange, starring at the ground. Solange, a sixth-grade dropout, said she had no interest in visiting a health clinic or seeing one of the psychologists that Unicef has paid for to counsel the many rape victims in and around Bunia. If she seeks help, the girl said, her mother might find out.
Helen's mother is dead, and Helen did not dare tell her father for fear of a beating. She said she knew he would blame her for going near the soldiers in the first place and might even throw her out of the house.
Helen did go on her own to a health clinic soon after the assault because she said she hurt between her legs. The health worker gave her something to drink, which she paid for with the same dollar that the soldier had given her, she said.
"I was so afraid when he took my clothes off," Helen said, fidgeting with her dirty T-shirt. "I was quiet. I didn't say anything."
The allegations leveled against United Nations personnel in Congo include sex with underage partners, sex with prostitutes and rape, an internal United Nations investigation has found. Investigators said they found evidence that United Nations peacekeepers and civilian workers paid $1 to $3 for sex or bartered sexual relations for food or promises of employment. A confidential report prepared by Prince Zeid Raad al-Hussein, Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations, and dated Nov. 8, says the exploitation "appears to be significant, widespread and ongoing."
Violators described in the investigation, which continues, appear to come from around the globe. Fifty countries are represented among the 1,000 civilian employees and 10,800 soldiers who make up the United Nations mission in Congo. Already, a French civilian has been accused of having sex with a girl, though it is unclear where that case stands, and two Tunisian peacekeepers have been sent home, where the local authorities will decide whether to punish them.
The United Nations report details allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers from Nepal, P*kistan, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa and Uruguay, and lists incidents in which some soldiers tried to obstruct investigators.
When they arrive for duty, peacekeepers are presented with the United Nations code of conduct, which forbids "any exchange of money, employment, goods or services for sex."
The home countries are responsible for punishing any of their military personnel who violate the code while taking part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
The United Nations, which has had previous scandals in missions in Cambodia and Bosnia, also warns the soldiers against sexual contact with girls under 18, even though the law in Congo permits sex with girls as young as 14.
The United Nations policy says that mistakenly believing someone is older "cannot be considered a defense." The youth of Helen and Solange cannot be mistaken. They said they were abused while selling bananas and avocados to soldiers. Each girl said she was among the girls and women who have flocked to the camps that peacekeepers have set up around Bunia. These two girls walked from tent to tent with fruit balanced on their heads, using gestures to make deals.
Helen would sell her fruit for 10 francs apiece, or a few cents, and would earn about $1 a day. She would give the money to her older sister.
Solange would trade her fruit for the small containers of milk issued to soldiers. She would then sell the milk in town, making about $1.50 a day. She used the money to help her family buy food.
Some of the girls and women who have entered the peacekeepers' camps concede that they had less-than-innocent intentions.
Judith and Saidati, both 15 and sexually experienced with Congolese boys, acknowledged that they were looking for foreign boyfriends as they sold their fruit.
The girls, who have the same father, said in a recent interview that they both found French boyfriends first, when the French Army controlled Bunia last year. Then they each found soldiers from Nepal, one of the countries supplying peacekeepers to the United Nations mission. After that, the girls spent time with soldiers from Morocco, who make up the bulk of the force now patrolling Bunia.
The girls said they each stuck to one soldier apiece and switched to new ones only when their boyfriends were transferred out. Each time they had sex, the soldiers gave them $5, they said. Sometimes, they got other gifts, too, they said.
One day, however, after their latest boyfriends had gone, a social worker visited them and told them of the dangers of having sex with soldiers. The woman sat them down and told them about AIDS and the other sexually transmitted diseases they might get. "She told us not to go anywhere near the soldiers," said Judith, who like the other girls agreed to be identified only by her first name. "She said we're still young and they might make our lives short."
The two half sisters said the social worker's words frightened them, and they said they had not had any boyfriends for the last few months. But they also acknowledged that fewer Moroccan soldiers were propositioning them, reducing their temptation. The soldiers' new commander is keeping a closer eye on them, the girls said. "They want to come to us but their chief is watching them," Judith said.
Judith and Saidati said they wanted the soldiers to remain in Bunia for many years. The girls said the United Nations troops had succeeded in stabilizing the town, which was a war zone just over a year ago. The foreigners also have much more money to spend than local boys, the girls said.
"I like them," said Judith, smiling coyly.
"They treat us so nice," added Saidati, who was beaming.
But the two younger girls, Helen and Solange, were far more sober when they spoke of the foreign troops. They said they stopped selling fruit at the military camp immediately after they were attacked and had never been back. They said they had trouble sleeping at night and could not forget what the soldiers did to them.
"Whenever I see one of them, I remember what happened," said Helen, who lives near a military checkpoint operated by soldiers wearing blue helmets just like the one she remembers seeing in the tent. "I'm afraid of them."
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 13:57 |
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The United Nations report details allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers from Nepal, P*kistan, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa and Uruguay, and lists incidents in which some soldiers tried to obstruct investigators.
Outside of SA & Uruguay ,what do these nations have in common?
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 14:36 |
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do you believe in that famous conspiracy about Tutsi and their wider project within the great lakes region? I dont believe it though I am suprissed that Interahamwe are causing the whole thing in that region..well thats what we are told in East Africa
I am not sure if you have been to kisangani or Kivu,but If youve been to that part of the world then you will get the real reason of that war in congo and its deep rooted down and guess what they wont tell you in the western media and in that area there are special areas that if you are not American you are not allowed to go,the same applies to chinese,French,British and South Africans
after all for some time now, there have been recurring allegations that Western powers and multinational companies are fuelling the crisis in order to benefit from the rich mineral resources of the war-torn country.
Now what we need to ask ourselves ss the UN going to crack down on these powerful interests? Is the UN going to expose the evils perpetuated by top world leaders involved in such illegal acts, whether covertly or overtly?
If the three governments – Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – continue to deny their involvement in the plunder of DRC resources, can a UN embargo be enforced? At the moment, Congo has no control over the territory where the exploitation is taking place, and is unable to issue licenses, or regulate or tax it to complicate any possible remedy in the form of sanctions, there is a whole set of buyers involved, some of them with powerful international contacts
First are the original buyers who cut deals either with Kigali or Kampala or Bujumbura then these buyers become sellers and sell to someone who processes the mineral or timber then the mineral or timber processor sells the processed product to a manufacturer who uses it for a finished product hese complex linkages complicate the process of demanding accountability, not to mention the double standards of some Western powers who have condemned the war yet continue to provide support both financially and militarily to the parties to the conflict.
the truth about the war in the great lakes region is that foreign corporate organisations are actually the instigators of the war in Congo using soldiers from Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi eg, the US has been is deeply involved in training, arming, financing, and supplying technical and intelligence support to armies in the region.
Mercenary groups such as MPRI (USA), Executive Outcomes-these guys are linked by the current situation in the coup plot in Equitorial Guinea and Foreigh Office knows about them (South Africa), Sandline (UK) and others are also allegedly being used by the Pentagon to promote their African expeditions, particularly in the Great Lakes region
Other Western governments have been accused of snubbing a call to condemn Uganda and Rwanda's invasion of Congo while being quick to castigate those countries that came to the rescue of Congo's sovereignty – Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola of course
wanna know more? there were reports that the Banque du Commerce du Developpement et d'Industrie in Kigali, Rwanda, Banque National de Paris (BNP- ), B&L Trading International Ltd of Dublin, Ireland, and Kenrow Inc of Maryland, were involved in a deal to develop Tantalite and other key minerals obtained from the Rwandan occupation zone in Congo,I am sure Dimoke you are aware of thi and of late, the RCD-Goma faction backed by Rwanda has been involved in the exploitation a mineral which is used in cell phones, col-tan. The Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Front (CLF) is accused of controlling gold mines in Bafwasende and other areas.
I remember sometimes back an RCD-Goma leader claimed on bbc swahili service that they raise more or less $200,000 per month from diamonds. Col-tan gives them more $1 million a month its also an known fact that countries, illegally occupying Congo are not only profiting from the wealth they are taking out of that country, they are using a portion of that wealth to pay for their illegal occupation
Ever wonder why BA,KLM&AIR FRANCE bound toNairobi,Kampala,Dar esalaam &Kilimanjaro(Arusha ) if full of those jewish diamond dealers?sipmle we are bussy praisin,n creamin and so on
Look Dimoke the situation there is more complex than the TUTSI/INTERAHAMWE CONSPIRACY THEORIES that you are made to believe
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 14:55 |
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@ Coltrane, there is NO Congolaise law that permits sex with girls under the age of 18! I just wanted to correct that mistake in the article. They will use anything to exscuse the misconduct of the UN's so called peacekeepers. Remember they used thesame argument in Ethiopia and Eritrea to make us Africans look like we have no laws to protect our children!
Anyway, i have to stop there..this is just to painfull for me, those are people.
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 14:59 |
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The other missing point in what you said is the rumour that those countries you named who came to the "aid" of Congolese democracy did so for the lucrative diamond contracts for their heads of state.
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Posted: Monday December 20th, 2004 15:37 |
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| @Coltrane, you have made very good and important points that i did not touch on in my previous post. i will get back to you later, sorry too busy at work and the internet connection is playing up.
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Posted: Tuesday December 21st, 2004 14:23 |
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the truth about the war in Congo isnt about BANYAMULENGE or INTERAHAMWE but its about plundering its natural resourses in the east.
did you know that one of the most important material in mobile phones cant be found anywhere else but in CONGO?
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Posted: Tuesday December 21st, 2004 22:07 |
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COLTRANE wrote: @DM
the truth about the war in Congo isnt about BANYAMULENGE or INTERAHAMWE but its about plundering its natural resourses in the east.
did you know that one of the most important material in mobile phones cant be found anywhere else but in CONGO?
Ofcourse i know this, i was born just half an hour from one of the site of this minerals. Coltrane i understand what you are saying but please don't play the white men thief card with me on this one. I have already lost half of my family on my dad's side and almost every one on my mum's side. From the testemony of the survivors, it is not the White men that is going around raping and comimiting acts of cannibalism against my people. It is the Rwandan army and the Hutu rebels
ps:yes i know about the UN staff's abuse of civilians.
The death of 3.4million people cannot be just the result of the west's stealing, at least not in this conflict anyway. The unstability caused by the Hutus and The Rwanda army is the feeding force that is openning the door of exploitation in Congo.
Civil unrests always breeds corruption and exploitation. My Mother is Half Hutu and half Tutsi. when my brother went to Rwanda to look for my mum's family, he found NOTHING, But diamonds trade was the menu of the day everywhere.
How else do you explain a poor country like Rwanda and especially Uganda having billions of dollars in their OWN national banks, with diamonds and tantline being their main resources
However If you were to say that the west was AIDING them in a way then we are on thesame argument route.
But to blame it solely on the west would be stupid and the death of us. If there is one thing i know, it is that we Africans are guilty of imposing the most inhumane suffering on our own people. we have become so brainwashed that we have literally picked up where the ruthless colonisers left. It is a legacy that i as a Staunch dedicated Pan-Africanist feels most ashamed of, however i try my hardest not to distract from the truth by indulging in pain numbing conspirancy theories of the Great Jekyl and hyde of the west.
We must MOVE away from this addiction of seing the west in EVERY root of our conflicts. Malaysia tried it and look at the result.......it could have been another Indonesia.
I have spoken to my sister who works with the Coucus de Femme Congolaise about this and she sent me an article that i will post here for you to see yourself WHAT native Rwandan and Congolaise Journalists who have an up and close experience of the conflicts makes of it
Check this!!!!
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412201483.html
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Posted: Tuesday December 21st, 2004 23:27 |
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Indeed Un officials are among the world's worst abusers of charity funds. I hear in Darfur a place where people do not even have clean water yet the UN has sent God knows how many representetives most of whom are staying in 5 star hotels in Khartoum (capital of Sudan) and not in Darfur where the crisis is taking places.
These offocials are being driven in 50,000 dollars vehicles and have provision for dozens of body guards and and have to be paid massive salaries for their posting abroad. Over the whole operation the cost of keeping one UN official in Sudan could usually reach a million dollars money which would have been better spent digging wells and building mud homes for the people who are struggling.
A Sudanese man once told me you could build a whole village in Darfur for 100,000 US dollars.
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Posted: Tuesday December 21st, 2004 23:30 |
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dimoke wrote: COLTRANE wrote: @DM
the truth about the war in Congo isnt about BANYAMULENGE or INTERAHAMWE but its about plundering its natural resourses in the east.
did you know that one of the most important material in mobile phones cant be found anywhere else but in CONGO?
Ofcourse i know this, i was born just half an hour from one of the site of this minerals. Coltrane i understand what you are saying but please don't play the white men thief card with me on this one. I have already lost half of my family on my dad's side and almost every one on my mum's side. From the testemony of the survivors, it is not the White men that is going around raping and comimiting acts of cannibalism against my people. It is the Rwandan army and the Hutu rebels
ps:yes i know about the UN staff's abuse of civilians.
The death of 3.4million people cannot be just the result of the west's stealing, at least not in this conflict anyway. The unstability caused by the Hutus and The Rwanda army is the feeding force that is openning the door of exploitation in Congo.
Civil unrests always breeds corruption and exploitation. My Mother is Half Hutu and half Tutsi. when my brother went to Rwanda to look for my mum's family, he found NOTHING, But diamonds trade was the menu of the day everywhere.
How else do you explain a poor country like Rwanda and especially Uganda having billions of dollars in their OWN national banks, with diamonds and tantline being their main resources
However If you were to say that the west was AIDING them in a way then we are on thesame argument route.
But to blame it solely on the west would be stupid and the death of us. If there is one thing i know, it is that we Africans are guilty of imposing the most inhumane suffering on our own people. we have become so brainwashed that we have literally picked up where the ruthless colonisers left. It is a legacy that i as a Staunch dedicated Pan-Africanist feels most ashamed of, however i try my hardest not to distract from the truth by indulging in pain numbing conspirancy theories of the Great Jekyl and hyde of the west.
We must MOVE away from this addiction of seing the west in EVERY root of our conflicts. Malaysia tried it and look at the result.......it could have been another Indonesia.
I have spoken to my sister who works with the Coucus de Femme Congolaise about this and she sent me an article that i will post here for you to see yourself WHAT native Rwandan and Congolaise Journalists who have an up and close experience of the conflicts makes of it
Check this!!!!
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412201483.html
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Amen! your statements are spot-on. I don't believe most of the racial conspiracy theories out there and don't think that the so-called west, is the primary instigators of this conflict. If anything, the conflict is contra to western interests. As the region is of considerable importance to the west, because of it's mineral riches.
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 10:14 |
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@dimoke
I am not a congolese but I've been to both Kisangani& Kigali and guess who I was with? I was with the son of Wamba Dia Wamba philipie (he is dead now)...his mom at that time was a lecturer at Dar es salaam university..while Kabila sr& jr were also based in Dar and believe its the west who were grooming Kabila and his movement that led to the oust of Mobutu..off and philipie's dad Professor Wamba Dia Wamba's is married to African American women who had some guy in the stste dept who were pulling the strings for his movement..I think they were RDC (GOMA)
Now back in 1993 we were in Rwanda and mind you the genocide was underway with hassan Ngezi and that radio station were doing their job is scare mongering and guess what? they got the funding from France and Belgium I am perfectly sure that French and Belgium govts are whites and not black.I've lots pple that I know in both Rwanda and Burundi who were simply at the wrong place and wrong time.Its a known fact that the genocide in that region is not about ethnicity but more of money and power
Its a known fact that whites especially Europeans have been the main source of genocide in that region from the day they arrived whether its the Belgian help to Prince Rwegasore in Burundi or the killing of Patrice Lumumba in Katanga and I am sure there isnt a weapon factory based in the great lakes region.
I am suprissed when Europeans blame africans for war and corruption while the biggest facilitators of it and them Europeans they dont have BAE SYSTEMS or CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON in Africa for arm manufacturers in Europe there need to be a war so they could sell and after that a corrupt African leader like Mobutu would take him money to a European Bank
At the top of the heap sat the chief pilferer. Nobody knew for sure the size of his bank accounts, the range of his company holdings and investment funds. Deeds were made out to front companies, business associates and family members in order to cover his tracks. But it was easy enough to monitor the gradual build-up of a portfolio of desirable residences at home and abroad.
In Zaire itself, the palace complex at Gbadolite gradually blossomed into life like one of those lush tropical flowers which virtually poison the air around, so potent is their scent. In each major town, a villa lay ready for the president's use. Kinshasa, of course, also boasted a choice of residences, including a hillside mansion whose grounds served as a private zoo. But Mobutu came to prefer the pagoda in the Chinese village built at Nsele, east of the capital, or his luxury cruiser Kamanyola furnished with oyster-shaped settees in pink silk.
and some presents Mobutu made himself were simply too ostentatious to remain secret for long heard the most notorious was the £5 million Villa del Mar in Roquebrune Cap Martin, not far from King Leopold's former French Riviera estate....the story goes that when buying this neoclassical property, the president agreed a price, then as an afterthought enquired whether it would be in dollars or Belgian francs – the 39-fold difference in value held no meaning for a man of such careless wealth
Things didnt end there,on a similar lavish scale were Les Miguettes, a converted farmhouse in the Swiss village of Savigny and the over£ 3 million Casa Agricola Solear estate in Portugal's Algarve, blessed with 800 hectares of land, a 14,000-bottle cellar and 12 bedrooms and here was also a vast apartment on Paris's Avenue Foch, conveniently close to the furrier who made his trademark leopardskin hats and the fashion designers patronised by his family all in all rom Cape Town to Madrid, Marbella to Marrakesh, Abidjan to Dakar, were scattered a string of farms, villas and hotels, not very sure about London though
its also said that the bulk of his real estate network was located in Brussels where he had tturreted Chateau Fond'Roy was just one of at least nine buildings scattered across the upmarket districts of Uccle and Rhode St Genese, a sign that this most nationalist of African presidents was ready to forgive colonial wrongdoing when it came to finding a safe investment for his money and I think for those who have been to Brusles will tell you that it was an impressive collection for a man who in 1959 claimed to have just £3 to his name.Who knows he might have as well own MAMA MAPASA restaurant in 7 SISTERS!
I am sure some in the blacknet would be asking how was this possible..for once I know Dimoke would remember Mobutu would warm his audience up with a question-and-answer session sorry dim I am not making fun of congolese but this is how it goes:
Mobutu shouts: Nye, nye? (Can you be silent?)
Crowd roars: Nye (We are silent)
Mobutu: Na loba? (Can I speak?)
Crowd: Loba (Speak)
Mobutu: Na sopa? (Can I speak frankly?)
Crowd: Sopa (Speak frankly)
Mobutu: Na panza? (Can I speak openly?)
Crowd: Panza (Speak openly).
wanna know what would follow?? yeah...a speech in Lingala, the language which, unlike the French mastered by only an educated elite, was accessible to the common man. It would be full of puns, wordplay and wisecracks and that Mobutu would get the crowd giggling, cheering and laughing then nothing happens and those white guys would more than happy that they got those contracts to buil a palace in Dgabolite
oooh,did I say our own Nyerer was also goot at talking and speeches?
I beg to differ with you Dimoke as an African I will always blame whites for all the problems in that continent and I wish to stand by my that view and it didnt take Horrace Campbel to tell me that
sometimes the fact that I used to hit MAMA MAPASA'S in 7 sisters gave me that feeling like sh*t how many of these folks have had it so bad back in Goma?
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 10:49 |
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Money Corrupts all, But I'd rather blame the person getting paid to do the deed than the person paying.
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 11:56 |
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@coltrane, I have already explained to you that i do NOT dispute the involvent of the west in African affairs, be it nationaly or internationaly.
What i think is of importance here is that WE Africans have willingly participated in their conspiracies against our nations, either due to greed or Just plain miseducation. You in fact have proven my point with your above post. You have sited Mobuty's wealth which he stole openly and enriched his own imediate family and thosein his close circles. You have also claimed that RDC Goma had someone in the state department puuling some strings for them.....
I also what to comment in the point that you made about Americans supporting Kabila&co.....Coltrane, haven't you ever wondered why Kabila tried but failed(resulting in his death) to sever any relationship with the Rwandan government that helped him oust Mobutu? Me Thinks because he was trying to break free from the Americans, but unfortunatly he knew he had to get read of the predominantly Tutsi government first. WHY? Because THEY were the gate keepers of the Americans'access to Congo.
No man can come into your home without some kind of corperation from within. that is why people with big mouths( in Congo we call them "ba songi songi") have a hard time infiltrating families who are very tight together. There comunication and loyalty to the FAMILY.
And that Coltrane is what Rwanda has shown the Lack of.
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 12:41 |
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Lol Coltrane, MAMA MAPASA in Seven Sisters? Wow you my man is connected to your exteded African family aren't?
And you gave me jokes about Mobutu owning the place
Now that you have mentioned, i will pop around there after work for some take away.
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 13:01 |
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@DIMOKE
They dont have CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON OR BARCLAYS CAPITAL in AFRICA
and those are few of many banks that keep looted money from Africa in Europe
Ever wondered why western governments are refusing return back 5 billion dollars stollen by ABACHA of NIGERIA?
they they are quick calling Africans corrupt
do you know the main reason why Mugabe fell out with the BRITS? its because a highly profitable arms contract was given to the French and Chinese but they wont tell you that publicly
As far as Rwanda is concerned all I know its one of the few favourable countries in Africa and what ever they do is seen by the west as ohhh theyve been through genocide so let them protect themselves
The Congo makes a mockery of the very first sentence of the preamble to the UN Charter – "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". no wonder Rwanda thinks it can opt the US was of going after the so called Terrorists
I remember reading a statement from American NGO Refugee International (RI) describes the Congolese war as "equivalent of daily volcanic eruptions, but with far greater social and economic consequences". well isnt that what Kabila and his comrades wanted when they requested the tutsi(museveni of Uganda and Kagame of Rwanda) to help him oust Mobutu..isnt it funny when the RPF took Rwanda their main song war talking about the Revolution by Tracy chapman but I guess now they are talking about plundering
As far as I know is that Israeli arms companies are many some huge profirs in that region and it doesnt stop there..Baroness AMOS knows alot about that UK mercenary comapny EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES role in congo and seems that there is significant interest from that tower hamlets MP
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 13:18 |
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Yeah its part of networking .... as far as mama mapasa at seven sisters is concerned I've been to that place about twice and I wasnt impressed but its a place where meeting Kanda Bongo man and the remaining members of TP OK Jazzband who will tell you endless stories of it was back in the day ohhh and some zairwaa who will tell you he needs a place to sell his diamonds from Goma..interesting though
ohh I wouldnt advise you to go to the wash rooms either unless its extremely urgent
ohh its also a place where young men meet older women...(MARIOS)
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Posted: Wednesday December 22nd, 2004 14:16 |
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Marios? I have not heard that word for ages!
Yeah you are right that place is a joke of a restaurant
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Posted: Sunday January 9th, 2005 17:35 |
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Sexual abuse of young girls by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is widespread and ongoing, a UN agency has said.
Over the past year, the peacekeepers have been accused of gang rapes, sexual harassment and bribing children as young as 12 or 13 with food or a few dollars to have sex.
There are nearly 11,000 military personnel in the Congo to help keep the peace after a civil war. The force is the largest among the 64,000 soldiers in 16 UN peacekeeping operations around the world.
The UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) is one of several agencies probing the charges. It has investigated 72 allegations against both military and civilian UN personnel, which resulted in 20 case reports.
In seven cases, young girls identified the soldiers from a line up.
One French UN member of staff, who made pornographic videos of children, was jailed in France for rape.
South Africa is taking action against two soldiers. Allegations have also been made against soldiers from Uruguay, Morocco, Tunisia, and Nepal.
Barbara Dixon of the OIOS said: "A lot of the girls were traumatised, by war as well as abuse. What they knew was if they wanted to eat, this was a way to do it."
The UN has jurisdiction over its own civilian staff but troops are contributed by individual nations. The organisation therefore has only the power to demand a specific country repatriate an accused soldier and punish him or her at home
http://www.itv.com/news/world_219089.html
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Disgusting...
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An internal report, returned public Friday January 7, establishes that soldiers of a half-dozen of nationalities are implied and denounces "a feeling of impunity".
New York (the United Nations) of our corresponding
Three dollars and a bottle of milk for sex. A dollar and two eggs. UNO made public, Friday January 7, a report/ratio which documents in a precise way the sexual abuse made by the "blue helmets" of a half-dozen of nationalities in the east of Congo.
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 Realized to start from discussions with the population of Bunia, between May and September 2004, it testifies to a spread practice, in spite of the code of conduct of the gripping forces of the peace, which prohibits the sexual contacts with the minors.
According to this investigation, established by the internal service of the investigations of UNO (OIOS), soixante-douze felt sorry for was recorded for the only area of Bunia. The majority were classified without continuation, of witnesses or evidence, but twenties were retained. Among those, seven could be sufficiently supported to be transmitted to the countries concerned by hoping that local military justice is setting in motion.
UNO is not qualified to return justice itself. It can only wait until the Member States continue themselves the contraveners, which in the case of soldiers suspected of sexual abuse is not very frequent. Besides the report/ratio raises a "feeling of impunity" such, that the sexual traffic continued, whereas a first investigation had already taken place in May. The same observation had already been made by prince Zeid of Jordan, sent on mission in October by Kofi Annan, the secretary-general. "the policy of tolerance zero" as regards sexual abuse was followed of a "application zero", it wrote in his report/ratio.
"BETRAYED CONFIDENCE"
The investigators do not hide either that they had to face the obstructionism of two quotas. One needed higher interventions to obtain the hearing of troops which were already on the aircraft, ready to leave.
To buy the favours of young girls and old teenagers from 12 to 18 years, the soldiers of the quota of Monuc, the force deployed in democratic Republic of Congo, paid of a little food and sums not exceeding 5 dollars. The "pickups" were young boys, old sometimes 8 years, which touched them also some crumbs. "the witness admitted to have facilitated the sexual exchange between the victim and the soldier in exchange of bread and of jam", the report/ratio indicates, which details six cases.
UNO did not reveal the nationality of the quotas. But of semi-official sources, the soldiers blamed are originating in Malawi, of South Africa, of Morocco, of Uruguay, of Tunisia, of P*kistan and Nepal. Among the civil ones, one counts Australian. And a French.
The case of this French, who was not with Bunia, but formed part of the personnel with Goma, caused a shock with UNO. Not only it is shown of sex with minor, but it took photographs and turned of the vidéos. It was returned to France in November, where it is the subject of continuations. Its identity was not revealed. In his report, the prince of Jordan indicates that this French, marked of paedophilia, was located only following one "initial attempt by inhabitants" to organize a blackmail. According to Los Angeles Times, it is the local police force which tested the blackmail before denouncing it with its superiors.
The official ones of UNO have fears that it did not make circulate its photographs on the Internet, but nothing was apparently established. France is the only country, with South Africa, in which continuations were committed for the moment.
In a press conference, the secretary-general associated Jean-Marie Guéhenno and the person in charge for Monuc, the former American diplomat William Lacy Swing, said that they "were outraged and made indignant". "It is clear that a business as that one conflicts with our credibility, said Mr. Guéhenno. That amounts betraying the confidence which the populations place in us." At the same time, they did not make mystery of the impotence of the Organization.
At one time when the missions of peace were never also numerous (64 000 people in 16 country) and where to find "helmets blue" is a sempiternal headache, the approach adopted by Mr. Guéhenno is rather "nonconfrontationnelle". It endeavours to obtain the agreement of the countries contributors to include in their engagements with UNO the obligation to continue the authors of sex murders, to even allow courses martial in the zone where they are deployed, as prince Zeid recommends it.
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Sex ban on DR Congo peacekeepers
Kofi Annan expressed "personal outrage" over the allegationsUN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been banned from having sex with locals after claims of widespread abuse of women and girls.
The new rules were disclosed in a letter from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Security Council.
Mr Annan also called for 100 extra military police and French-speaking investigators to "root out" the abuse.
Claims of sexual abuse of girls as young as 13 started emerging early last year.
The victims were usually given food or small sums of money in return for sex, a report by the UN watchdog, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, said in January.
The UN has investigated 150 allegations, including gang rape, made against some 50 soldiers based in DR Congo's north-eastern town of Bunia.
It has not named the countries involved, but reports mention soldiers from Morocco, Nepal, P*kistan, South Africa, Tunisia and Uruguay, as well as a French civilian.
Curfew
In his six-page letter to the UN Security Council, Mr Annan expressed his "personal outrage" at the abuses.
 "I reiterate my stance - one which I know the members of the council share - that we cannot tolerate even one instance of a United Nations peacekeeper victimising the most vulnerable ones," he said.
His letter spelt out the new regulations for more than 12,000 military personnel from the UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc).
The "non-fraternisation" measures included a curfew for military contingents, specialised training for all mission personnel and development of recreation and welfare opportunities "to alleviate the concentrated stress present in filed missions".
Mr Annan said Assistant Secretary General Angle Kane had been sent to DR Congo to conduct further investigations.
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@LadyDAy simple human resource managament issue here. How the hell are you now going to motivate all those guys without the incentive of having sex with under aged girls or boys, women in weaker and often desperate social circumstances or those women tempted to let you what you want to them lured by peace keepers mullah....
Howelse are these desirable men from P*kistan, Morrocco, and short two foot nothing men from Nepal gonna taste an an African woman?
Think the government got this completely twisted?
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16 March - The situation in the strife-torn eastern Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has surpassed the upheavals in Sudan's Darfur region as "the biggest, most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today," according to the UN top humanitarian official, Jan Egeland.
Some 3 million Congolese were in acute need of assistance in a complex emergency where many parties were involved, "including, at one point, about 20 different armed actors," Mr Egeland told a press briefing as a two-day meeting of UN regional humanitarian relief officials began today in Geneva.
About 1 million people had died in the region in the past few years and there were many preventable deaths still - some 1,000 per day - despite the efforts of an active humanitarian community, he said, including 13 offices representing the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which he heads.
In addition, sexual abuse in recent years had become probably worse there than anywhere else in the world, Mr Egeland said. Even the UN's own peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, MONUC, faces massive charges of sexual abuse.
Mr Egeland's motives for handing this dubious distinction from Darfur to eastern Congo became clear during the press conference. Donors were "sitting on the fence" and withholding contributions for Darfur and eastern Congo. More focus was needed on the Congolese crisis, because, when "we need money and we need it now," he said.
Eastern Congo however was not the only humanitarian crisis that suffered from under-funding, however. No funds had come in for operations in the Central African Republic, Chechnya, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo Brazzaville and a regional operation in West Africa, while only 11 percent of funds needed for the Great Lakes region had been received, Mr Egeland said.
On the other hand, the humanitarian operations to assist the tsunami victims in Asia were well-funded and works there had already turned to the reconstruction phase. After the enormous response from people all over the world to help tsunami victims, humanitarian aid for Africa has now almost dried up. Ironically, humanitarian organisations still focus on the tsunami to raise funds in Europe and America.
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Posted: Monday March 21st, 2005 09:35 |
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Yvette, a 14-year-old living in CongoYvette, a 14-year-old living in Congo
Congo's Desperate 'One-Dollar U.N. Girls'
"I'm sad about it. But I needed the dollars. I can't go farm because of the militias. Who will feed me?" asked Yvette. At 14, she has a round face with wide eyes beneath a cap of neatly shorn hair, and her hands rest on her hips in an older girl's pose.
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Did anybody see the Congo Vice President (former leader of MLC) on BBC's hardtalk with Zenab Badawi last night??
A very smooth character. Handled her very well I thought. She had a lot of unrealistic expectations of Congo regarding the timeframe. Also she challenged him repeatedly on the human rights records of his own soldiers and abuses commited by his men. He replied with facts and figures and pointed her to the letters he had written the UN and human rights watch people himself calling for them to come and observe and the trials he had set up to punish soldiers. She called them a farce and cited MSF and amnesty international but he pointed out that he had invited them there and set up the trial with UN as obsevers.
She said that perhaps as there was so much rape and abuse he should take responsiblity and go on trial. He said he had caught as many men as he could (183 I think he said) and that Blair is not on trial for Abu Grahib, nor should he be. The blame falls on the individual soldiers says he (WHAT SAY YOU BN?).
He was quick to point out the UN abuses too, which she dismissed and 'yes but something is being done about that' he responded that he had done much himself (again more facts and figures). Dunno how he stayed calm but he was very slick.
Anybody tell me anything about him?
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I think he should be held responsible somewhat just like Blair and bush, but the brunt of the blame falls on the individual soldiers.
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"Women are often abducted as sex slaves. Those caught trying to escape, especially from Jerome's soldiers, face a brutal execution known as "the slow death". Over four days their fingers and toes are cut off, the skin is ripped from their arms and legs and finally they are disembowelled."
The Agony Of A Traumatised Nation
Heard In The Cries Of A Beaten Child
The Telegraph - UK
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The vast, mutilated African state of Congo is enjoying a ceasefire but butchery and theft continue apace while the the West remains inactive reports Adrian Blomfield in Aru
Nine-year-old Bahati lies on the ground whimpering, a urine stain slowly darkening the front of his baggy camouflage trousers. Two boys, perhaps three or four years older and also dressed in military uniform, stand over his body clutching bamboo canes in their hands.
They look across at "General Jerome", a former traffic warden who now heads the Armed Forces of Congolese Patriots, or FAPC, one of half a dozen militia groups terrorising Ituri district in north-eastern Congo.
He nods. One boy brings down his cane, then the other. Their bodies heave in exertion, sweat trickling down their brows as they build up a rhythm. A low, muffled animal howl fills the air. Monkeys tied to nearby trees shriek and chatter at the sound. An olive baboon named Rambo manically hurls himself from branch to branch.
Jonathan, the general's six-month-old pet chimpanzee, covers his eyes with gnarled hands as he squats nearby.
The eighth blow splits open the skin on Bahati's bared back, but still they keep on going until his moans fall silent and he rolls on to his side, his knees drawn up to his chest, his head flung back.
Jerome nods again. "That will teach you not to discharge your weapon in barracks," he tells the child, a bloody rag doll lying barely conscious at his feet. More boy soldiers gather around Bahati. Many are laughing.
They have learned another lesson in violence and brutality, something that will stand them in good stead the next time Jerome orders them to cut the throats of women and rape their daughters.
Congo's five-year war officially ended in July when the main rebel factions joined a transitional government headed by 32-year-old President Joseph Kabila.
That is cause for measured hope, though not yet for optimism. Jerome's FAPC is an illustration of the myriad obstacles facing Congo, an entity in little more than name, over the next few years.
The future of this vast land is a matter of the greatest importance for the future of Africa.
The war has spread instability, greed and death across a huge central swathe of the continent from east to west, sucking in and destabilising avaricious neighbours and opening the way for an army of organised criminal gangs and carpetbaggers from around the world.
Having finished Bahati's punishment, the general sped off to the airstrip where his men had taken two Ukrainian pilots hostage in retaliation for the hijacking of a plane ferrying his senior officers and weaponry donated by Uganda.
Uganda, along with a former ally, Rwanda, invaded Congo in 1998.
Now, seeking to expand its hold on Ituri's gold and mineral resources, it is the driving force behind the FAPC and a militia of cannibalistic Lendu tribesmen.
Stealing the idea from Hitler's "Convict Army", responsible for some of the worst atrocities on the Eastern Front, Uganda fills the FAPC with criminals from the prison in Aru, where Jerome has made his headquarters. Many were already used to raping and killing; they massacred more than 1,000 suspected "witches" in 2001.
Rwanda has backed, trained and funded the Lendu's bitter foes: militia men from the Hema tribe.
The warring tribes, their hatred for each other fanned by Rwanda and Uganda, have turned Ituri into a crucible of misery. They have killed perhaps 100,000 people. At least 500,000 more have fled their murderous onslaught.
Over the past five years, a demographic study by the International Rescue Committee found, between three million and 4.7 million people in Congo have died because of the war, mostly from hunger and disease thought to be preventable during peace time.
Despite the official end of hostilities, millions more remain vulnerable.
Agriculture has collapsed and for most Congolese it is still too dangerous to return to their farms. Armed thugs, supposedly now incorporated in the new Congolese army, roam the countryside raping and murdering.
Women are often abducted as sex slaves. Those caught trying to escape, especially from Jerome's soldiers, face a brutal execution known as "the slow death". Over four days their fingers and toes are cut off, the skin is ripped from their arms and legs and finally they are disembowelled.
It is no longer possible to cross Congo, a country the size of western Europe, by land. One of Africa's best rail and road systems in the 1960s now lies in ruins, cutting off millions in isolated villages and robbing them of any hope of prosperity.
Hospitals lie bare and drugless. The West has promised £2.75 billion over the next few years to help the Congolese to rebuild their country.
That will be hard enough. Keeping Congo from sliding back into all-out war will prove even more difficult.
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Rape Joins Plunder Of Diamonds And Gold As
A Hallmark Of Congo's Bloody Conflict
By Declan Walsh
The Independent - UK
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GOMA -- A pungent odour wafted through the room. Hands folded on her lap, Rosette, a 23-year-old with twists of black hair, waited patiently. The operation was the next day, she said. Surgery should get rid of the smell.
Rosette was waiting for doctors to rebuild her vagina. Two years earlier, a gang of armed men had destroyed it. They stormed her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing six men including her husband. Then they raped the women. For four days Rosette lay there, battered and unable to move. When help came, her rescuers followed a swarm of flies buzzing overhead.
Rosette suffers from vaginal fistula, a medical condition that has virtually disappeared in the developed world. It persists in some African countries where there is poor childbirth. But in eastern Congo, a flood of new victims is appearing, marking the horrors of a barbaric conflict. Aid workers call it the war against women.
Normally resulting from childbirth complications, fistula in the Congo is the product of particularly violent rape. Severe internal injuries cause immense pain and debilitating incontin-ence. Ostracism often follows.
Dozens await operations at a clinic in Goma, the eastern capital. Many have had objects - sticks, fingers, gun barrels - thrust inside them. Some have been shot in the vagina. One teenager has had her eyes poked out. For those treating them, the cruelty is incomprehensible.
Lyn Lusi of Doctors on Call for Service (Docs), a United States-funded charity running the clinic, said: "It numbs you. How can human beings do that to each other? They must be possessed."
As well as the plunder of diamonds, gold and the mineral coltan, savage sexual violence is one of the defining characteristics of the five-year Congo war. In the vast eastern forests, gunmen - rebels, local militia, armed refugees from Rwanda - rape with abandon. Sometimes the aim is to subjugate a community. Other times, they do it just because they can. Fred Kahunde, a hospital worker, said: "They want to show power and strength: that they can do whatever they want to."
In just six months this year, the Docs clinic in Goma treated 1,000 women, 83 of whom required fistula operations. An older hospital, to the south in Bukavu, has healed hundreds more. The attacks in turn fuel the spread of HIV/Aids - 12 per cent of women, many of whom had not been sexually active, tested positive.
Patients wait in two tents donated by Unicef, and eat World Food Programme rations. Last week, Mwasi, 18, stumbled through the flapping door. Her eyes had been beaten to a pulp. The gunmen also damaged her hearing, so doctors shouted questions. She replied in a low whisper, nervously fingering the zip on her jacket. Tears streamed down one cheek. Staff were unsure whether it was a medical reaction, or just sadness. She said: "They killed my parents. Then they beat us to show them where the food was."
Mwasi's assailants were with the Interahamwe, the Hutu militia that fled Rwanda after leading the 1994 genocide, she said. Aid workers say all armed groups - including the main rebel group, RCD-Goma, and the Mayi Mayi militia - are guilty. Dr Abuka Longombe, a Congolese who did many of the operations, said: "They are all as bad as each other." Dr Longombe, a big, burly man, reached into his drawer and pulled out a photo. It showed a woman whose lips were cut from her face. For a moment he was lost for words. "My youngest patient was five, the eldest was 73. How can you do this to a grandma?" he said. "I don't have an explanation. But one thing is sure: their goal was to destroy."
Dr Longombe has seen the worst of the Congo war. Last year he narrowly escaped death at Nyankunde in northeastern Ituri province, when Lendu fighters killed more than 1,000 people from the rival Hema tribe. In the hospital where he was director, the militia hacked at least 40 patients to death in their beds. "Some had just had surgery, so they were still in traction. It was impossible to escape," he said. Nyankunde was among the worst atrocities of the war; some of the dead appeared to have been cannibalised.
Dr Longombe said a war crimes tribunal was needed to end the culture of impunity. But hopes for justice are thin. Congo's judicial system is crumbling, and rebel armies rarely discipline their soldiers.
Brig-Gen Laurent Nkunda, the RCD-Goma commander in North Kivu province, denied his men had committed mass rape. "Yes there has been some rape," he said. "But where there is war, there is abuse. War is not a recommendation."
A few days later Jan Egeland, the UN under secretary for humanitarian affairs, visited Goma. He said: "I have told the leaders the international community will hold people accountable for war crimes."
But for now the outside world is concentrating on cementing the fragile peace between Joseph Kabila, the President, and his former rebel enemies. A transitional government is sitting in the capital, Kinshasa. In the east, fighting has slowed but not stopped, and looting, murder and rape continues.
After her operation, Rosette recovered on a narrow bed. Beside her, about 40 other women waited. Amid the talk of peace, their battle continues.
- Names of victims have been changed.
© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
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EVIL!
From: Eliza Griswold
Subject: Cannibalism as a Crime of War
Friday, March 26, 2004, at 8:20 AM PT
Maria lost her arm defending her children; she says soldiers ate flesh from the arm after they amputated it
In Bunia, the town's population has swelled from 6,000 to 120,000 people. Most have left everything—crops, possessions, their families—to escape the ongoing massacres in the bush. Through a network of local human rights organizations, I arrange to meet with a handful of survivors. One Sunday morning, over a hundred people show up to tell their stories.
One of them, Vivienne Nyamutale, 30, says that she spent 75 days captive with the Lendu fighters in the bush. "I was taken as the fourth wife of the fetish chief, Chief Abele." On five separate occasions before the Lendu fighters attacked a Hema village, Vivienne says, Hema men were brought before the crowd, cooked, and eaten by the fighters. Vivienne is Hema. She survived captivity only by swearing that she was Alur, the most common tribe in this part of Congo. Finally, after one massacre, she ran into the night and escaped. Vivienne is one of a handful of women who tell me about rape camps farther along the Fataki road where we found the two dead men.
Later, I visit a camp for displaced people and meet Chantal Tsesi, 24. We sit in the camp's office to talk. On the floor, a 2-week-old baby cries. The baby's parents have been killed; she was left at the camp by a neighbor who grabbed the infant while fleeing the massacre.
Draping a green batik cloth over her left shoulder, Chantal says that at 5 in the morning on Aug. 27, 2002, she woke to gunfire in the gold-mining town of Mabanga-Gélé. She was alone with her 6-year-old son, Claude, as men armed with machetes entered her house. "Today we are going to cut off your arm so you can't prepare mandro [traditional beer]" they said to her. She tells me, "They cut off my arm and took it outside where they had made a fire. They cooked it, while they were drinking our mandro, and ate it with the rest of the beans and rice." Claude had escaped into the bush with relatives. Then, she says flatly, "They told me they were going to find my husband and eat his heart."
Catherine, 9, too afraid to stay in the hospital, is taken back to the bush after being treated in Drodro
After the attack, Chantal spent three months in the Drodro Hospital, where, later, the patients were killed bed by bed. Then her husband abandoned her because she can no longer work. In the village, Chantal's mother, Eliza Dz'da, lived with another daughter, Georgette, and Georgette's four children. That August morning, Eliza says, she heard Lendu women ululating as the fighters entered the village to attack. Georgette and Eliza's grandchildren tried to escape. All of them, Eliza says, were caught and killed. "We had a shed made of leaves, and they tore it down to build the fire. They took our leftover food and cooked pieces of Georgette and the children," she tells me.
Both Eliza and Chantal say they're not interested in vengeance. "God says that if someone does something bad to you, you must forgive him," Chantal says. "That's why I think it's possible for this war to end. May God forgive them all because they didn't know what they were doing." Eliza says, "I've always lived with the Lendu, because they've always worked for us. When they came to work on the farm, they ate with us, and at the end of the day, we gave them money."
At a distance, their desire to forgive seems inexplicable. Up close, amid the deep fatigue of the war, it's easier to understand. Still the idea of forgiveness and the reality remain extremely different.
"If the Lendu had wanted to live here with us in the camp, I would have no problem with it," Eliza says, when I ask why she has chosen to live in this IDP camp. This camp is controversial, because it is—in international aid speak—"mono-ethnic," mostly ethnic Hema. This can be dangerous. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, aid went straight to Hutu extremists, who took over Congolese refugee camps. Now, having learned their lesson, aid groups are wary of ethnic self-segregation.
To learn more about the camp I go to see the smartest woman in town, Petronille Vaweka, president of the Special Assembly of Ituri. Although she too has heard rumors about the camp, she doesn't doubt the women's stories. Our talk turns to cannibalism. "You can't hide it, the Lendu kill," she says. "So do the Hema, but they kill in secret. Now in this war, with drugs, they cook people and eat them like fish. No one can lie—both sides have eaten each other."
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View the side show of The Congo.There are 40 pictures.
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You're one f**ked up piece of sh*t. Aren't you being b**ch slapped by people. lol! f**king moron.
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@ preemptive_strike read this and conclude for yourself.
RUSSIAN CANNIBALS
UKRAINE: On July 15, 2002,
police in the central Ukranian town of Zhytomyr said they have arrested three men and a woman on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing up to six people, including an 18-year-old girl. "They killed a young woman in a forest and then cut out fleshy parts of the body and ate them. This is horrible," a police spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency.
In what is believed to have been a Satanic ritual, the suspects killed the 18-year-old with two knife thrusts to the heart, local interior ministry representative Viktor Kurbatov told the press. She was also scalped and decapitated. Then the suspects boiled her head in water and ate pieces from it. The cannibal crew was arrested several days after the murder when they went to meet the girl's parents to collect a $3,000 ransom.
CRIMEA:In March, 1996, police in the Crimean city of Sebastopol were called to investigate a murder. Nothing had prepared them for the carnage they discovered when they entered the home of a former convict and found the mutilated remains of human bodies being prepared for eating. The flat's owner, her mother and her boyfriend, had been stabbed to death by the 33-year-old suspect and their bodies neatly butchered. In the kitchen investigators found the internal organs of two victims in saucepans, and nearby on a plate a freshly roasted piece of human flesh.
PERESTROIKA: Alarmingly, cannibalism is becoming way of life in the former Soviet Union. In the 1996 ten people were charged with killing and eating other people. Police estimate that at least 30 people were eaten that year.
Newspaper reports across the former Soviet Union speak of cases of vagrants being eaten, or their bodies being cut up and sold to unsuspecting passers-by. "We have information about cases where human flesh is sold in street markets; also when homeless people kill each other and sell the flesh. Every month we find corpses with missing body parts."
An apocryphal story -- which may or may not be true -- relates how two winos fed a buddy human flesh. The man ate with great appetite, but when he learned the true source of the meal, he hanged himself.
SIBERIA: In 1996 a man in the Siberian coal mining town of Kemerovo was arrested after he admitted killing and cutting up a friend, and using his flesh as the filling for pelmeni, a Russian version of ravioli which, coincidentally, is the favorite dish of the Yeltsin family. The scam was uncovered when rag-pickers scavanging through a garbage dump discovered a severed human head. Soon they discovered that the rest of the body had been minced, put into pelmeny, and sold at cut-price prices in the local market.
KYARGYZSTAN: Russia's most industrious cannibal, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev is believed to have killed up to 100 women, and served many of them to his dinner guests. Nikolai used at least 47 of his victims to make ethnic dishes for his neighbors in the Russian republic of Kyargyzstan. When arrested Nikolai pointed out that two women could provide enough delicate meat to keep him going for a week.
PRISON: Twice last year convicts in overcrowded prisons killed and ate their cellmates because they claimed they were hungry and wanted to relieve overcrowding. Criminal experts said that most cases of cannibalism in Russia were part of the general rise of serial killings, and because of Russia's mounting economic and social problems.
BARNAUL: Offering no other explanation than not wanting to share his cell, Andrei Maslich, 24, strangled his fellow prisoner and then cut out his liver with a shard of broken glass. He put the organ in a mug with water and boiled it up on a makeshift fire made from his bedding. Standing in the defendant's cage in the court room, Maslich admitted to drinking up his homemade stew. The next morning, part of the shrunken organ was found in the mug.
Maslich, a four-time convicted murderer, was initially given his first death penalty last year after he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate another prisoner. Then they told authorities they were bored and wanted to visit Moscow, where they thought they would be sent for psychiatric examinations.
KAZAKSTAN: In the Semipalatinsk prison in Kazakhstan, four convicts -- who blamed their actions on newspaper articles about instances of cannibalism in prison -- decided to eat the very first "new guy" placed in their cell. So when a convict named Volchenkov showed up, they killed him, cut meat from his arms and back, cooked it up, and ate it. Some pieces were fried on a hot plate and some of were boiled in an electric kettle.
KZYL ORDA: A man guarding a pot field in Kzyl Orda region of Kazakstan confessed to shooting and cannibalising his comrade. The suspect, identified only by the single name Zhusaly, salted the flesh of his buddy and ate it for 10 days. The man -- along with three farmers charged with growing the pot -- was arrested in a drug raid. The three also have been charged with concealing murder.
BEREZNIKI: The grim discovery of cannibalism in Perm Oblast unfolded when Citizen K. brought to the police station a package of human flesh. He had bought it on the street. His wife, having studied the piece, discovered skin on it. Specialists say that the taste of "people meat" is a specific one, and has a distinctive smell when it's cooked. "The taste of a victim," it is asserted, in full seriousness, at the Main Criminal Investigations Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "depends on the victim himself: if he drank or smoked a lot, whether he liked sweets or salt..."
F.A. Boldyshev and his friend N.V. Ostanin, got drunk with a third man, A.P. Vavilin, and killed him. Then they dismembered his corpse and had one of their mother's cook the choice cuts. After gladly gorging themselves, they packed up the remains and sold them in the street. Vavilin's head, hands, and feet were thrown into the attic. In custody the lethal trio confessed they did it so to save money on the purchase of normal food.
THE URALS:Anatoly Dolbyshev, a resident of Berezniki in the Urals region of Perm, was found guilty of stabbing to death a friend of his mother's in a fight. He was also charged with "swindling and appropriation of property through deceit," when he cut up his victim's body and sold pieces of the human flesh to unsuspecting local townsfolk in exchange for vodka. Police arrested Anatoly when one buyer found a strip of human skin in the meat.
MOSCOW: Citizen Kolpakov from Nizhnyy Novgorod, a lodger of a rooming house, was killed by the son of the woman who owned the apartment. The killer cut a piece of soft tissue from the forearm, fried it in a frying pan, and ate it. A panel of experts found him to be of diminished responsibility.
MARSHAL TUKHACHEVSKY STREET: Moskovsky Komsomolets, Moscow's most popular daily, reported a grisly finding on Marshal Tukhachevksy Street. A beggar rummaging for food through the rubbish bins finds a human foot and several other body parts. Police called to the scene found more evidence of murder: four hands, four shoulders and three feet, all female. "It became clear to the detectives that they were dealing with not one, but two murders," the newspaper reported.
CHUVASH AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC: On July 3, 1997, the supreme court of Russia's Chuvash Autonomous Republic sentenced Vladimir Nikolayev, 38, to death for killing and cannibalizing two people in the town of Novocheboksary.
Nikolayev, denounced as a particularly dangerous criminal ten years before, was being arrested in his apartment in the winter of 1996 when police found a pan of roasted human meat on the stove and another cannibal dish in the oven. In the snow on his balcony Nikolayev had more bodies part stored to eat later. Investigators who questioned Nikolayev said he had jokingly asked them to prepare him a dinner using his stock of human meat.
NOVOKUZNETSK: In a one man crusade to cleanse modern Russia from the permissiveness of democracy, Sasha Spesivtsev, 27, killed at least 19 street children who he saw as the detritus of society. The unemployed black marketeer would lure his homeless victims from the streets and local train stations in the Siberian town of Novokuznetsk to his home where, with the help of his mother, he killed and ate them.
UDMURTIAN: In a settlement of Novyy, two men -- Rasskazov and Bobylev -- were charged with killing and eating their drinking partner Alekhin.
In a stream outside Novokuznetsk, 43 bone fragments were found of six bodies -- four boys, one girl, and one man. The criminologists have a theory: A whole family was done away with. But in order to "establish genetic identity," it was necessary to conduct a special analysis of the bones. And the Internal Affairs Ministry official in charge of the case says, "These preserved bones have lain in my refrigerator for a month already, waiting for the chemicals. Special preparations are very expensive..."
MANTOROVO: Situated on a tributary of the Volga, Manturovo is a quiet town of 22,000, where two women -- Valentina Dolbilina, a 36-year-old mother of a four-year-old boy, and Vitaly Bezrodnov, 28, a factory worker -- were accused of killing their drinking partner and then cooking his flesh.
After a night of heavy drinking, Bezrodnov announced he was hungry and "would like some meat". After checking out one of their drinking buddies who was dead drunk in the corridor, they decided he was too skinny and packed him off home. Their gluttonous eyes then fell on a fourth member of the party, who was a bit fatter. Propelling him into the tiny kitchen, Bezrodnov asked Dolbilina for something heavy. With Dostoevskian inspiration she fetched an axe, and the victim was hit on the head, beheaded, undressed and then cut up into pieces. As Dolbilina held a tray, some 15 pounds of meat was cut from the thigh and rump, and put in the frying pan.
Awakened by the unusual smell of cooking meat, her flatmate, Boris Komarov, came into her room and asked to join the feast. Despite the haze of drink, even he noticed something strange. "It was a bit tough," he said. He was reassured by Bezrodnov, who said they had killed a stray dog for the pot.
Satisfied by this explanation, Komarov skept eating the leg of man straight from the pan. Little did he realise the full ghastliness of the situation: the dead man was his own brother, Leonid. Even the little boy, Roma, was served a slice of Leonid. The kid later blurted out: "Mummy killed a man and served him up to her friends."
ST. PETERSBURG: Local cannibal Ilshat Kuzikov liked to marinate choice cuts with onions in a plastic bag hung outside his window. When the police forced their way into his home, they found Pepsi bottles full of blood and dried ears hanging on the wall - his winter supplies. He offered the officers some meat and vodka if they would let him go.
On March 19, 1997, Kuzikov was found guilty of killing three of his vodka drinking buddies and eating their internal organs, and was sent to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. The confessed cannibal said he killed his first victim in 1992 after inviting him to his flat for a nightcap. Ilshat, 37, said he became a cannibal because he couldn't buy enough to eat on his $20 monthly pension. After sating his appetite Kuzikov dismembered his friends and put them in a garbage dump.
STALINISM: Russians have known cannibalism caused by genuine hunger. Due to the brutality of the Soviet Government there have been famines the like of which has not been seen in the West since the 19th century. In 1921 about five million people died in the Volga and Urals region, while the Ukraine was devastated in 1931 during Stalin's collectivisation of the farms. To survive the 444-day siege of Leningrad by the Germans, the defenders ate corpses.
ROSTOV: The grandfather of Russian-style cannibalism Andrei Chikatilo, believed that his brother had been murdered and his body parts sold during the Ukrainian famine of 1931. In a grim reminder of Andrei's rampage, in January, 1997, Vladimir Mukhankin, 36, pleaded guilty to murdering eight women in Rostov-a-Don.
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