The collateral mass killings and rapes aided by the British budget support to Kagame’s guerrilla war based in Uganda, and to the current Kagame’s regime against Kabila of DRC:
The United Nations has said there has been huge increase in rapes and killings in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past month, a spokeswoman said.
More than four hundred rape cases were recorded in most of the province during the first three months in 2009. The number of cases are equivalent to more than half of the total cases registered there last year.
"This is a cry of alarm, we are shocked," said Elisabeth Byrs of the UN humanitarian coordination office, adding that there has been a "dramatic" resurgence in rapes and attacks in Sud-Kivu province, with civilians burnt alive in their homes.
"The insecurity is intolerable,” Byrs added. “We are seeing an extremely grave trend with rapes used as a weapon of war."
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a briefing note that civilians were "increasingly the victims of lootings, extortion, killings and rapes" committed by the Congolese army, and armed groups such as the Rwandan Hutu rebel FDLR and Mai-Mai militia.
FRANCE 24 correspondent Arnaud Zaijtman, who is based in Kinshasa in the DRC, says the report proves that a current lull in fighting between government troops and rebel militias has hidden the reality of increasing violence.
Burned alive
Some 1,128 homes were burned down in three villages during attacks in which 77 people were killed with machetes and knives then burned alive in one attack by the FDLR, Byrs said.
"There is terrible violence currently in Sud-Kivu, especially in the region of Kakeli," she explained.
According to Zajtman, “Combatants who were previously supported by Rwanda have joined the DRC national army – but they have kept many of their weapons and money to keep up their illegal attacks.”
“Rebels have taken advantage of the situation to take over a huge tin mine that will provide them with further funds,” Zajtman added. “There is a definite feeling that fighting will erupt again. And the rebels are taking advantage of the lull to get more funds and more weapons to fight.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20090520-un-raises-alarm-over-rapes-killings-congo-kivu-war-crimes-unhcr
The United Nations has said there has been huge increase in rapes and killings in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past month, a spokeswoman said.
More than four hundred rape cases were recorded in most of the province during the first three months in 2009. The number of cases are equivalent to more than half of the total cases registered there last year.
"This is a cry of alarm, we are shocked," said Elisabeth Byrs of the UN humanitarian coordination office, adding that there has been a "dramatic" resurgence in rapes and attacks in Sud-Kivu province, with civilians burnt alive in their homes.
"The insecurity is intolerable,” Byrs added. “We are seeing an extremely grave trend with rapes used as a weapon of war."
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a briefing note that civilians were "increasingly the victims of lootings, extortion, killings and rapes" committed by the Congolese army, and armed groups such as the Rwandan Hutu rebel FDLR and Mai-Mai militia.
FRANCE 24 correspondent Arnaud Zaijtman, who is based in Kinshasa in the DRC, says the report proves that a current lull in fighting between government troops and rebel militias has hidden the reality of increasing violence.
Burned alive
Some 1,128 homes were burned down in three villages during attacks in which 77 people were killed with machetes and knives then burned alive in one attack by the FDLR, Byrs said.
"There is terrible violence currently in Sud-Kivu, especially in the region of Kakeli," she explained.
According to Zajtman, “Combatants who were previously supported by Rwanda have joined the DRC national army – but they have kept many of their weapons and money to keep up their illegal attacks.”
“Rebels have taken advantage of the situation to take over a huge tin mine that will provide them with further funds,” Zajtman added. “There is a definite feeling that fighting will erupt again. And the rebels are taking advantage of the lull to get more funds and more weapons to fight.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20090520-un-raises-alarm-over-rapes-killings-congo-kivu-war-crimes-unhcr
Research shows that the British are No 1 to advance their own interests through their aid ideology and propaganda. They know what they get out of it.
ReplyDeleteTheir agenda is always behind their foreign aid. Just look at what they have done and are still doing in the African Great Lakes Region. They aid has helped the wars in the that region from Uganda to Rwanda, and from Rwanda to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now they claim to be the major donors in the countries of that region. Take just an example. All 20,000 guerrilla men based in and supported by Uganda and UK, who were at the war against the Rwandan government from 1990 to 1994 were on the Ugandan government payroll funded by the British budget support. Then, the Kagame’s soldiers who invaded twice the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where about 4,000, 000 people have been killed ,were on the Rwandan government payroll funded by the UK government. This situation still continues now in DRC with the British budget support.
As you are aware, with the scandal over the British MPs claims and expenses , the UK should be classified by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. But this will not happen because of the language of corruption adopted by the West. In Africa, these MPs’ claims will be labelled as corruption. In Britain, corruption is claims, entitlements, honest mistakes, benefits, bonuses, etc. This scandal shows that the British are the most corrupt people in the world. Their MPs claim like they were claiming from a foreign country. They are simply thieves.
This corruption is the evidence of what the British do in Africa and other parts of developing world through their NGOs, consultants, advisers , the so-called development practitioners, etc. To create jobs for consultants, they change the language of development. They come up with new concepts such as Rural Rapid Appraisal ( RRA) , Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Participatory Learning and Action, Logical Framework ,etc. These terminologies cannot even be translated in African languages.
Then our communities, farmers, professionals and governments feel confused by the new approaches, ideologies and terminologies. They have only one choice: accepting these consultants paid by their own resources or paid through technical assistance, which is part of foreign aid they receive.
The British provide foreign aid to African countries through their budget support for education , health care, etc. Then they send consultants to take the jobs from people supposedly trained through this budget support. This means that their budget support ( or neo-colonialism support ) did not achieve anything because Africans are not able to develop their own human resources to replace the consultants. Regarding the health care, the budget support is supposed to help African countries develop human resources to tackle Africa chronic health problems, but the British take trained nurses out Africa to work in their hospitals.
My question:
Do we really need magic brains to understand why African countries and their people continue to live in misery? Say Yes or No.