Wednesday, October 25, 2006

And they say the black man has not learned the ways of the europeans...

The Second Congo War was a conflict that took place largely in the territory of Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). The war began in 1998 and officially ended in 2003 when a Transitional Government took power. The widest interstate war in modern African history, it directly involved nine African nations, as well as about twenty armed groups, and earned the epithet of "Africa's World War" and the "Great War of Africa." An estimated 3.8 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease brought about by one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II. Millions more were displaced from their homes or sought asylum in neighboring countries. [1]

Despite a formal end to the war in July 2003 and an agreement by the former belligerents to create a government of national unity, the state remains weak and much of the eastern region continues to suffer from violent conflict. In 2004, an estimated one thousand people died every day from violence and disruptions to basic social services and food supply. Sporadic outbreaks of fighting continue to lead to large scale forced migration.


-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
(You should really read the whole article. It's very informative.)

This is what happens when you don't have real countries. Are they invading you or just trying to fight off a rebel group that uses your country as a base? What about the third party that's funding them? What about your rebels? What about the inter-clan warfare/civil war? What race of people is being ethnically cleansed? Are you doing it to your own people, or do you think of them as outsiders? Is this an invasion or a unification? Are they marxists or western backed? Perhaps islamic? Maybe just a tribe?

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