[url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/06/05/congo.genocide/index.html]Congolese remember violent executions[/url]
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of the Congo (CNN) -- May was another brutal month for the residents of Bunia.

People were terrorized and slaughtered, first by fighters from the majority Lendu ethnic group and then by members of the Hema minority who drove the Lendu out.

"They beat the refugees, shot at them," said Florent, an eyewitness to some of the violence. "And then they picked out those who were Hema. They picked them all out. They took them with them, and they left."

The fighting, which has left 450 people dead and hundreds injured, followed the withdrawal of neighboring Ugandan troops on May 7. United Nations peacekeepers are in the region but do not have the political mandate or the weaponry to halt the fighting.

United Nations officials say they have never seen such "horrific" conditions as those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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"Most were shot, some were stabbed, others were beheaded, or chopped to pieces," he says.
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[red]"I saw the killing. I saw the way they removed the heart, the way they roasted it in a fire and then ate it,"[/red] she said.

Oughta send in Jesse Jackson... with some Mesquite sauce

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Thus, the same desired rules that (in theory) would prohibit potential rebels from acquiring weapons, also make people vulnerable to their governments.

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you know I've been saying Africa was next in military action

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I think French troops have already started arriving.

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/19/congo.fighting.ap/index.html]'Savage' killing of U.N. workers
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Two United Nations military observers were found dead after being reported missing for several days in troubled northeastern Congo...

...they were [red]"savagely killed,"[/red] Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said Monday.
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Reports of [red]cannibalism[/red] "cannot be so persistent and false," Ngongi told reporters in Bunia. "There cannot be so much talk of such things if it is false."

[red]Reports of cannibalism are not new[/red] to Ituri.

On January 15, U.N. investigators confirmed that rebels of the Congolese Liberation Movement and the allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National had carried out [red]cannibalism, rape, torture and killing[/red] in the province late last year.




Also: [url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/22/congo.un.pygmy.ap/index.html]Pygmies want U.N. cannibal court[/url]
Army, rebel and tribal fighters -- some believing the Pygmies are less than human or that eating their flesh would give them magic power -- have been pursuing them in forests, killing them and eating their flesh,

There have been reports of markets for Pygmy flesh...

...tribal fighters and members of one rebel group killed, cooked and ate at least a dozen Pygmies and an undetermined number of people from other tribes during fighting with rival insurgents.

"In living memory, we have seen cruelty, massacres, genocide, but we have never seen human beings hunted and eaten literally as though they were game animals, as has recently happened,"




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[url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/29/congo.unoff/index.html]Refugee crisis in Congo 'horrific'
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"We've seen the most horrible things in Bunia. Women who've lost their arms and legs, child amputees, men chopped to bits, women raped,"

"We're not just seeing women who have been raped, we're seeing women who have been torn apart, who have been cut up and who are on the edge of death,"

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I seem to recall a recent incident somewhere in Africa in which a baby girl was raped because the rapist believed that having sex with an infant was a cure for HIV.  Does anyone else recall this?  Yes, we uncivilized, brutal, heartless, Americans have much to learn from mother Africa.


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I seem to recall a recent incident somewhere in Africa in which a baby girl was raped because the rapist believed that having sex with an infant was a cure for HIV.  Does anyone else recall this?  Yes, we uncivilized, brutal, heartless, Americans have much to learn from mother Africa.


-REAPER2502

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In much of Africa the spear has been replaced by the AK-47 and the tribal warfare continues. Anyone remember Rwanda?

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were massacred to death

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Ah yes, Mother Africa.
There are many who claim Africa is the birthplace of civilization and that our collective history comes from there.
This leaves me to wonder if Africa WAS civilized at some point, what happened. Was there some european who stole the civilization how-to manual and left subsequent generations of Africans to wander aimlessly through time?
One would think that africans would have learned something about civilized life after thousands of years. Apparently not.
In some places they are still throwing spears at each other despite being exposed to civilization and having copious amounts of valuable natural resources. In much of Africa the spear has been replaced by the AK-47 and the tribal warfare continues. Anyone remember Rwanda?
In South Africa, the once thriving country is now plagued by violent crime and despair. Thousands have fled SA for safer ground mostly outside of Africa.
Yep, Mother Africa...the birthplace of civilization. [rolleyes]

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Sorry, this struck me as funny...