Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Calls For Action To Stem Violence In the Democractic Republic of the Congo (3:11 pm)
allAfrica has got the statement of former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calling for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Also, though he avoids directly citing the thousands of women and children being brutally raped in the Congo (not to mention the thousands of murdered husbands first forced to witness these atrocities committed to their families before they take their last breaths), they’ve posted the statement of Senator Russ Feingold urging the United States to act on the rapidly escalating crisis.
posted by Jarrett
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Better be careful, the Congo could be even worse than Iraq. Haven’t we learned our lesson yet? Nothing we do actually helps, it only makes things worse.
Pity about the people living there though.
posted by Jody on 10-9-07 at 5:09 PM