When I think of the Congo, the first thing I think of is 1,400 People Die Every Day. 

Then I think of the 10 MILLION(?) DEAD!!

Meanwhile, the AmeriKan MSM is all wrapped up in rebel-bashing and the politics!  Sigh!

"Congo rebels quit town, seeking talks

KIBATI, Congo - Congolese Tutsi rebels withdrew yesterday from an eastern border town in what they said was a gesture to persuade President Joseph Kabila's government to open peace talks with them.

United Nations peacekeepers said rebel forces loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda had pulled out of Ishasha, on Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern frontier with Uganda. The rebels had seized the town on Thursday, sending thousands of refugees fleeing over the border in the latest upsurge of conflict in Congo's eastern North Kivu Province.

The pullout from Ishasha followed a meeting on Saturday between Nkunda and a UN special envoy, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who criticized the rebels for seizing territory despite a cease-fire Nkunda himself declared. Obasanjo is trying to set up direct talks between the rebel leader and Kabila to end weeks of rebel advances, which have displaced more than a quarter of a million civilians, causing a humanitarian emergency in the mineral-rich state.

"We have decided to withdraw from Ishasha because when we secured it at the weekend everyone said we had breached the cease-fire," rebel spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa said.

Rebel spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa confirmed his army had taken the town but did not mention the border post. "We took this area of Ishasha peacefully. There wasn't a fight," Bisimwa said.  Kiconco also said the rebels had grabbed the Nyakokoma landing site on Lake Edward, which acts as a border post for those traveling to Uganda by boat.

At least 13,000 frightened civilians have fled into Uganda over the last two days, according to Robert Rosso, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.  "Some of the stories told by the refugees are terrifying," said Rosso. "They talk of passing many dead bodies as they walked for several days into Uganda."

The town and border posts are the latest to fall in rebel hands as the army of renegade general Laurent Nkunda increases its grasp over this lawless stretch of Congo's eastern hills.  Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi, says his rebels are fighting to protect Congo's minority Tutsis from the Hutu militia that fled here after helping perpetrate the 1994 genocide that killed more than half a million Tutsis in Rwanda. But his critics contend he is more interested in power and Congo's mineral wealth.

Bisimwa alleged that the Rwandan Hutu militia, known as the FDLR, was telling people to flee in order to attract international attention to stop the progress of Nkunda's rebels.  "If people cross the border they think they can use the international community to force us to stop our initiative ... This is the propaganda of the FDLR," said Bisimwa.

Some refugees already have fled three or four times since years of low-level fighting in eastern Congo intensified with a rebel offensive launched Aug. 28. More than 250,000 people have abandoned their homes since then.  Doctors Without Borders said four of 10 children suffering from measles have died in the village of Birundule, which they reached Thursday with a mobile clinic.

The agency is trying to get medical care to some of the tens of thousands of people hiding in forests or just running from village to village as they try to stay ahead of the fighting.  The militia, the rebels and Congo's government soldiers all are accused of grave atrocities against civilians.  On Friday, the U.N.'s top human rights official called for urgent action to stop the killing, rape and looting in eastern Congo. Navi Pillay says U.N. investigators should be given unhindered access to investigate abuses and that perpetrators must be held accountable. 

Yes, alleged African war criminals should be held accountable by the U.N.; however, those mass-murderers in Washington, London, and Tel Aviv get a pass!

The U.N. Security Council has agreed to reinforce its mission in Congo with 3,000 more soldiers and police because the current mission of 17,000 is spread too thin. It has not been decided whether the additional troops would come from Europe or Africa.

Bernard Udafuye said his house also was looted by soldiers Sunday night who stole food and a bucket. But he did not blame them, saying the soldiers are hungry.  Witnesses to the looting said the soldiers shot in the air, and that one stray bullet hit a 45-year-old woman in the head, killing her instantly....

UN refugee officials who had reported Thursday's shooting said they had no information about any violence Sunday. But at least 10 witnesses who spoke separately to the Associated Press told the same story.  --more--"

The U.N.!!!  They sound as bad as AmeriKa!!!! 

What, civilians dead in violence?  We don't know nuthin'!!!!

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo - Thousands of people displaced by fighting in eastern Congo stoned UN vehicles at a refugee camp yesterday in anger at the organization's failure to protect them.

Soldiers who had stopped the UN peacekeepers' convoy at an impromptu roadblock at the Kibati camp then dragged a group of men off the trucks, accusing them of being rebels. Peacekeepers' spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich said 10 surrendered rebels were among these men, and that they were to have been turned over to the military today, "but because of this incident, it was agreed on the spot to hand them over."

***********************

Some refugees blame the UN for their plight, in failing to protect them from atrocities they say were committed by both rebels and government troops.

"We are very unhappy about what (the UN) is doing here," said Boyazo Ruzuba, 29, a resident of Kibati. "Before (the peacekeepers) came, we had peace. Now, we don't have peace. They are helping rebels."

Yeah, except if you read my Congo labels you will find:

"Nkunda criticized the 17,000-strong UN peacekeeping force, questioning why it had never gone after Rwandan Hutu militias that he said were at the heart of the conflict."

That QUESTION ANSWERS ITSELF, doesn't it?

How many more MSM LIES do we have to put up with?

The 17,000 Congo peacekeepers whose primary mandate is to protect the local people are badly overstretched, the UN says, and it has approved deployment of 3,100 reinforcements. --more--"

The U.N NEVER HELPS where it goes because it is NOT INTENDED to do that!!! It is a GLOBALIST ORGANIZATION that SICKENS and KILLS PEOPLE!!

I didn't want to face the facts; however, Alex Jones is strong on that issue and I'm sorry, America, he is not making it up!

RUTSHURU, Congo - Surrounded by insurgent fighters, the bespectacled leader of Congo's rebels held his first public rally yesterday in newly conquered territory, telling the few thousand people who showed up: "Do not be afraid."

But winning over the terrified population of a half-empty town that accuses rebels of looting, rape, and forced recruitment won't be easy.

I get sick of the propaganda:

"Government troops, who looted and raped in Goma as they retreated Wednesday.... live among the refugees there, creating a tense and dangerous situation. Both government and rebel forces are accused of gross human rights abuses although, in this latest fighting, refugees say the rebels are not molesting them. --source--" 

So, HOW MANY MORE FUCKING LIES are you going to tell, Zio-media?  God damn it!!!!!!!!!!

"Nobody wants them here," said a 29-year-old human rights worker, after he was out of earshot of plain-clothed rebel intelligence agents who trailed him and every other civilian an Associated Press reporter tried to talk to. He declined to be identified because he feared for his safety....

Yeah, sure, because AP SAYS IT it is true, huh?  I'm starting to wonder, DID THEY JUST MAKE THIS GUY UP?  Oh, it is a WESTERN HR WORKER, huh?  Where's that salt shaker?

***************

Nkunda was heavily guarded by scores of rebel fighters, who crisscrossed Rutshuru's main road in jeeps they had captured from the army resembling World War II era relics. Rebels spread out along the edges of the crumbling stadium, patting down the roughly 3,000 who entered.

Not a problem when an AMERICAN PRESIDENT is guarded by troops, is it?  Yeah, that's what I thought!

After arriving in a white sport utility vehicle, Nkunda, carrying his trademark cane topped with an eagle's head, raised his thin arms and danced with a group of girls to a traditional, heavily distorted, Rwandan tune that boomed from a broken loudspeaker.  He began his speech by saying, "I know there are people who like us and there are some who don't. But I want to talk."

Sporting a military uniform, the wiry rebel leader called for unity among the vast Central African nation's myriad ethnic groups, saying conflict among them was destroying efforts to rebuild the country. 


Laurent Nkunda held a rally in Rutshuru, Congo, yesterday, and a crowd (below) in the newly conquered territory came to get a glimpse of the rebel leader. Nkunda said he is fighting to protect Congo's minorities, especially ethnic Tutsis. (Roberto Schmidt/ AFP/ Getty Images)

How come he doesn't look evil like Olmert or Bush?

He compared his movement to the country's Belgian colonizers, saying God sent them both "and nobody can fight the will of God." '

Now THAT is a ZIONIST INSULT and LIE!!!  I simply REFUSE to BELIEVE the African leader would compare himself to the MASS-MURDERING COLONIZATION of King Leopold!!!!!  One thing to lie, Zionist MSM, but another thing to TELL WHOPPERS!!!  You are EXPERTS in telling WHOPPERS!!!!!!

But he also said "the will of God is peace and I want peace." 

I certainly believe him more than my Zionist mouthpiece her!

Nkunda's fighters captured Rutshuru in late October, taking over the main road running north from Goma. The move enabled Nkunda to link the territory straddling a volcanic mountain chain on Congo's eastern border with a formerly isolated rebel stronghold of Kitchanga to the west.  Most of the area is rural pastureland, and its greatest value may lay in giving rebels a stronger hand to force the government to negotiate. Today, rebels are collecting road taxes and replacing town officials and police with their own.

Many Congolese believe the rebels are heavily made up of Rwandan soldiers, and see the rebellion partly as a Rwandan invasion. Rwanda denies its troops are involved.  Nkunda criticized the 17,000-strong UN peacekeeping force, questioning why it had never gone after Rwandan Hutu militias that he said were at the heart of the conflict. 

That QUESTION ANSWERS ITSELF, doesn't it?  Related: France's Mass-Murdering Holocaust Deniers

As a young Congolese in exile in Uganda, Nkunda fought with Tutsi-led Rwandan forces that stopped Rwanda's genocide 14 years ago, ousting that country's Hutu government.  He went on to become a senior commander within the Rwandan-organized Congolese rebel group, which held a huge swath of the east during a 1998-2002 war.

After a peace deal ended that fighting, he joined Congo's army but quit in 2004 to launch his rebellion.  "People say we are Rwandans, but it's not true," Nkunda said yesterday. "We are all Congolese." --more--" 

I don't know about you, but it sure seems that the Zionist MSM is demonizing him.  He must be working AGAINST the New World Order and their plans -- and therefore, I support him!!!

(CNN) -- Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said....

Andrej Mahecic, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' spokesman in Geneva, Switzerland, said he did not if the gunmen involved in Friday's attack were with the Tutsi militia or Congolese military. He said the men entered the camp about 1 a.m.

The girl yelled for help and people came out of their huts to see what was happening. Shots were fired, killing a young woman. The armed men forced some families out of their huts and looted the dwellings, Mahecic said.

UNICEF has issued a statement on humanitarian conditions in North Kivu, saying there is a "very high risk of child deaths due to malnutrition, malaria, respiratory infections." Cholera is endemic, it said, and threatens to worsen without latrines and clean water....

*********

Aid organizations have long said the enormous African country -- which borders nine nations and is more than twice the size of Alaska -- is suffering a humanitarian disaster. World Vision says the conflict in Congo -- ongoing since 1997 -- is the deadliest since World War II.

"The last decade of conflict has resulted in some 4 million deaths; an estimated 1,200 people die every day due to ongoing epidemics and war-related causes; some aid agencies estimate upward of 1,400 deaths per day," the Christian relief organization said in a news release.

All PRICELESS and UNIQUE and INDIVIDUALS and SOULS!! Aaaaah!

--more--"

Displaced women and children arrived at a clinic run by the aid organization Merlin to receive medical treatment in the provincial capital of Goma yesterday. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

There was also a couple of photographs of children on page A3, readers:

"Orphaned in Congo.... Children who have been abandoned or orphaned by war ate yesterday at the Don Bosco center in Goma, in lawless eastern Congo. Fighting between rebels and military troops has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in recent weeks, with 1,519 people taking shelter in the Don Bosco school compound. There are 89 children, with no parents among them."

I mention this because one photograph is from above a table with about 12 kids and their plates of chow and the other is of a pair of the cutest-looking little girls I have ever seen. I really have no words to describe the heartache I feel when I realize so many beautiful and precious children in this world are needlessly suffering.

And the final galling piece of information? The U.S. and its ALLIES are responsible!

KANYABAYONGA, Democratic Republic of Congo - His home was looted by government soldiers wildly pillaging this empty hilltop town. His fields are at the mercy of armed militias. And somewhere in the countryside, a rebel army is digging in.

In a tense vacuum between war and peace where little government authority exists, Katembo Mastaki is trying to protect his family the only way he knows how: Tethering a ripped piece of plastic sheeting-turned-tent to the jagged barbed wire surrounding a UN base.

"It's only God who protects us here," the 27-year-old teacher said, huddled in the grass and dirt Wednesday outside a UN base here. The scene this week represents a snapshot of suffering in a town that has not even been directly involved in Congo's latest fighting.

About 80 miles and a world away from Goma, the regional capital, Kanyabayonga is one of several towns perched on lush, pastoral hills that have been nearly emptied of inhabitants and ruled by extraordinarily unruly government troops since last week. In this lawless corner of Congo, there are no police. There is no fuel and no electricity. Terraced fields of precious beans and maize are untended. Shops stand empty. Children are not going to school.

Clashes between rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and Congo's frail military have displaced at least 250,000 people since August, a humanitarian catastrophe that has brought life to a standstill - all this in a province that was already struggling to deal with 750,000 other desperate refugees displaced over the last decade.

Not frail enough to LOOT, and RAPE!!!!

Nkunda says he is fighting to protect minority Tutsis from Rwandan Hutu rebels who helped perpetrate Rwanda's 1994 genocide. But critics say he is power-hungry and Tutsis are not targeted more than any other of Congo's other 200-plus ethnic groups. They argue, in fact, that his war has only increased resentment against Tutsis.

Oh, it is HIS WAR, is it? That just about gives the bias of the MSM away right there!!!

Earlier this week, rebels began pulling back fighters from several fronts around Kanyabayonga, ostensibly to support UN peace efforts, but clashes persist. Rebel spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa said the army, together with progovernment Mai Mai militias and Rwandan Hutu rebels, attacked rebel troops yesterday in Katoro, a small village near Kiwanja, about 45 miles north of Goma. Rebels fended off the attack after two hours, Bisimwa said.

But it is the REBEL LEADER'S WAR!!! Yeah, readers, I am tired of the AmeriKan MSM and its BS!!!

This week, 44 Congolese civil society and rights groups issued a letter pleading for the fighting to stop. "We are witnessing tragedies on a scale never experienced before in [our] history, in which civilian populations are being summarily executed by bullets or blows from machetes, knives, hoes and spears," the letter said. "With each day that passes, more and more people die."

And THERE GO the WATERWORKS here!!! Oh, God!!!!

The groups accused retreating army troops of killing, pillaging, raping and "leaving chaos and total disorder in their wake." They also accused rebels of going door to door in newly seized territories, forcing boys and men aged 14 to 40 to join their ranks.

"We don't know which saint to pray to; we are condemned to death by all this violence and displacement," the letter said. Though many hoped Congo's 2006 elections would finally bring an end to violence, Congo's east has deteriorated deeper into chaos instead, with rebels expanding their territory and armed, vine-clad, machete-wielding militias still roaming lawless hills.

Mastaki said armed Rwandan Hutu militias have often come to his fields, taking manioc and maize - whatever food they wanted. The unwieldy army itself is part of the problem. But some troops complain they are not paid enough to survive, and have to loot to get by.

It sounds like they ARE the PROBLEM!!!

The HUTU militias are NOT REBELS, folks!!!

Mastaki recounted how soldiers burst in on his family last week as they were eating dinner in Kanyabayonga, which until then had been spared the brunt of the latest war. "We heard gunshots and thought the rebels were coming," Mastaki said. "But it was our own army shooting in the air."

Thousands fled into bush or nearby forests, exposed to boiling days, cold nights, and frequent downpours. Mastaki, his wife and three children fled with thousands of others to the hilltop UN base, forming a massive ring around it made of temporary shelters made of bamboo, leaves and plastic sheeting.

The MISERY is beyond belief for an American; how do they GO ON?

While a turbaned Indian peacekeeper looked on from behind a sandbagged post, Mastaki counted what few possessions he had left: the clothes on his back, a thin foam mattress, four iron pots, a pair of plastic bowls and jugs, and a single utensil - a withered iron spoon.

Mastaki said he returned to his home to find it almost empty.

"Soldiers are still looting as we speak," he said Wednesday as a crowd of barefoot children gathered to listen. "Why is the UN here?"

Yeah, that is a GREAT QUESTION!!!!

Despite that oft-heard criticism, the mere presence of peacekeepers has given civilians with nowhere else to turn a kind of refuge. Mastaki put it his way: "At least nobody will shoot us here." --more--"

At least, not yet.

Here is a liitle more about the Mai Mai's:

"Mai Mai Fighters Third Piece in Congo’s Violent Puzzle" by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

GOMA, Congo — .... The Mai Mai are the third piece to eastern Congo’s violent puzzle, with the rebels on one side, the government forces on the other and the Mai Mai often terrorizing the uncontrolled areas in between. With their guns, leaf headdresses and special potions that many fighters believe make bullets bounce off them, they are a surreal — but still deadly — dimension to Congo’s civil wars.

The Mai Mai insist that they are Congo’s true patriots, but it is questionable how much influence they wield — most villagers call them crooks and they tend to lose their battles. In the past few weeks, they have emerged as spoilers, fighting on when the other armed groups have agreed to stop.

So now you know who is stirring up trouble!

The Mai Mai now seem to have a beef with just about everybody: the rebels (whom they clashed with on Thursday); United Nationspeacekeepers (whom they clashed with on Wednesday); and Congolese government troops (whom they clashed with on Tuesday). Once again, Congolese civilians have been the victims of most of these skirmishes....

On Tuesday, Mai Mai fighters ambushed Congolese troops north of Goma, a strategic city in eastern Congo on the Rwandan border. The government troops repelled them, witnesses said, and one dead Mai Mai fighter was left with an umbrella driven into his face.

On Wednesday, United Nations officials said heavily armed Mai Mai troops tried to shake down a United Nations peacekeeping convoy that was patrolling a small village near Goma. According to the officials, the militiamen initially demanded money but then said they would settle for some food. When the peacekeepers said no, the Mai Mai opened fire. The peacekeepers fired back and killed one Mai Mai, United Nations officials said.

On Thursday, the Mai Mai turned their guns on rebel forces, who have agreed, after days of touch-and-go negotiations, to pull out of some of the towns they recently seized. United Nations officials said the Mai Mai were trying to take advantage of the vacuum formed by the rebel withdrawal....

Ms. Nirakomano, a farmer and mother of three, said that Mai Mai fighters had looted her village, raped women and kept the entire area insecure and, by extension, poor. --more--"

To visit the camps and the dilapidated hospitals crammed with injured civilians is horrifying, but what is even worse is the possibility that this conflict could spread, making Congo the centerpiece once again of brutal regional war, like the one that ended five years ago.

Knowing that war in the Congo has cost 5 million civilian lives in the last decade, international leaders seem ready to take this crisis seriously. A diplomatic solution to the crisis is desperately needed, and for such efforts to succeed the shuttle diplomacy will need to be sustained, even when Congo falls out of the headlines.

Truthfully, I am surprised to see it printed in my Zionist-controlled War Daily.

To find a solution, diplomats will have to deal with two uncomfortable realities. The first is that Nkunda, bent - he says - on protecting Congolese Tutsi, has been able to use Rwandan territory to recruit soldiers, gather funds, and tranship such goods as military uniforms. The second is that the Congolese army collaborates with the Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, an armed group led by Rwandan Hutu, including some who participated in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

My colleagues and I have documented terrible human rights abuses committed by all the forces in the region: Nkunda's soldiers, FDLR combatants, and Congolese army troops. They have killed civilians, raped women, abducted children to serve as soldiers, and pillaged the food crops people need to survive. In a heartbreaking public letter from 44 human rights groups in North Kivu this week, the pain of this brutality is evident. "We don't know which saint to pray to; we are condemned to death by all this violence and displacement," the letter says.

You know, I don't want to knock HRW because they do a lot of great work; however, they are still a WESTERN-CENTRIC (and thus, Zionist-influenced) organization.

I mean, consider this:

"Government troops, who looted and raped in Goma as they retreated Wednesday.... live among the refugees there, creating a tense and dangerous situation. Both government and rebel forces are accused of gross human rights abuses although, in this latest fighting, refugees say the rebels are not molesting them. --source--"

And yet this piece leaves us with the impression that all atrocities are equal, being committed by all sides equally. Is that the way it is? Should I believe my Zionist War Daily.

High-ranking Rwandan authorities, themselves Tutsi, deny aiding Nkunda, yet his agents have recruited hundreds of experienced soldiers within Rwanda, many of them demobilized from the Rwandan army. Whether Rwandan officials encourage this or merely tolerate it matters little to most Congolese. Given the history of Rwandan military occupation of eastern Congo in the last war, the presence of Rwandans in Nkunda's ranks fuels the hostility of other ethnic groups against Congolese Tutsi.

I would just like to remind readers that it was the Tutsis who suffered the genocide.

Meanwhile Congolese government soldiers are collaborating with the Hutu FDLR despite having agreed in 2007 to break links with the militia and disarm it.

Now I'm beginning to recognize more of the media bias in its coverage. Once again, the west is on the side of mass-murderers!

The FDLR, based in eastern Congo, says it intends to overthrow the government of Rwanda but instead abuses Congolese citizens and enriches itself from Congo's minerals. The continued FDLR presence is seen by Rwandan officials as evidence of Congo's hostility against Rwanda.

Calling card: Behind the Numbers Untold Suffering in the Congo

Diplomacy will take time, something the people of eastern Congo don't have. While awaiting a solution, they need immediate protection against the armed assailants who brutally maraud their way through the region.

Nkunda is trying, which is why he's being ripped in the Zionist AmeriKan MSM!

The Congolese pin their hopes on an increase in the number of UN peacekeeping troops who can stand up and say no to the killers and rapists.

That's sick; half the time, the U.N. troops are doing that s***, and the other half of the time they are ignoring it!!!

UN Secretary Genera Ban Ki-moon pleaded for reinforcements last month for the over-stretched force, but the UN Security Council has not yet acted. Once authorized, peacekeepers will need at least two months to arrive. The European Union, which has troops who can deploy quickly, has been asked to fill the gap, but EU leaders dither in indecisive debate.

Yeah, it is amazing how SLOW the WORLD RESPONSE is when it comes to AFRICANS!! Probably because they are not Jewish, huh?

Meanwhile, more people in eastern Congo die. US, EU, and African Union leaders must step up efforts to find ways to protect civilians while they continue work on the diplomatic front.

President-elect Obama visited Congo while he was a senator and was an active voice standing up for the people of this war-torn nation. The crisis in the Congo demands immediate attention from his new administration. The world has failed Congo too often in the past. It cannot do so again. --more--"

Well, I'm posting them every chance I get and am hollering from my soapbox!!

Fighting between the army and Nkunda's men since August has forced hundreds of thousands of people from homes into crowded displaced camps. The UN puts the total refugee figure at 250,000, but tens of thousands have also deserted Kayna and Kanyabayonga. Rebels have advanced close to Kanyabayonga, perched on a mountain ridge around 10 miles south of Kayna.

Rebel spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa said yesterday that his group would immediately withdraw 25 miles from hotspots around the northern towns Kiwanja and Kanyabayonga to allow rebels and Congolese army officials to meet today.  The meeting near Kanyabayonga "will examine the establishment of zones of separation between their two armies, in order to prevent any possibility of confrontation," Bisimwa said in a statement.

Sure looks like the "rebels" are working for peace, doesn't it?

RWINDI, Congo - Well-armed Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo have pushed back demoralized army troops and advanced north, extending the territory under their control, despite their leader's pledge to support a cease-fire and peace talks, witnesses said yesterday.

Government troops abandoned their position late on Sunday at Rwindi, 80 miles north of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu Province, after a battle with the rebels involving small arms and heavier weapons. UN peacekeeping troops at Rwindi stayed in their base during the fighting....

The blatant bias against the rebels is the Zionist AmeriKanMSM tipping its hand as t o which side it is on. That cease-fire was a unilateral one by the rebels, and the government never agreed.

**********

To the north, sporadic gunshots rang out that peacekeepers said were probably fired by hungry soldiers poaching animals. Local residents said they wanted the conflict to stop.

Yeah, the people never want war.

"There were more than 100 bombs that fell last night. What kind of cease-fire is that?" said Clement Augustin Kasabuni, 33.

A UN official said the retreating government soldiers had destroyed equipment left behind in Rwindi including ammunition and a rocket launcher. The rebels have been collecting large amounts of military hardware abandoned by the weak and chaotic Congolese army. --more--"

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Renewed fighting broke out yesterday between rebels and soldiers in eastern Congo, as a UN special envoy flew in for emergency talks and said President Joseph Kabila was ready to meet his main rival....

The army and rebels exchanged fire briefly yesterday in Kabasha, a village about 70 miles north of Goma....  Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa could not confirm the fighting, but said it was tense around Kanyabayonga, 10 miles to the west of Kabasha.

"There is a big movement of the government army from Kanyabayonga toward our positions," Bisimwa said. "They have tanks, helicopters, many things. They want to attack us."  The brief skirmish was the first reported since Tuesday. --more--"

Gee, I wonder where they got those! 

"Congo's catastrophe

CAUGHT UP in a spasmodic civil war, civilians in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering a humanitarian catastrophe. Some 250,000 have been driven from their homes. The displaced as well as those who stayed in their villages are preyed upon by rebel, foreign, and government soldiers alike. And the victims receive no protection from the undermanned United Nations peacekeepers - 17,000 in the entire country, just 5,400 in the east.

This is a many-sided conflict over ethnic resentments, control of rich mineral resources, and the pure pursuit of power. Its antecedents are in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when a Hutu supremacist regime in Rwanda murdered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis. After the Tutsis' Patriotic Front overthrew the genocidal Hutu regime, many Hutu fighters fled into eastern Congo.  Their presence there ignited a war that lasted from 1998 to 2003, drawing in troops from several African countries, including Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Angola. And now the unextinguished embers of that conflict have flared up into another conflagration....

************

An even sadder spectacle is the abject failure of the UN mission to Congo. Just this week, the Security Council postponed until Nov. 26 a request by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for 3,000 more peacekeepers. This refusal to save lives and to act against the raping of women and girls in eastern Congo makes a mockery of the UN's avowed responsibility to protect civilians who are threatened by their own government.

--more--"

Displaced residents received corn yesterday from the World Food Program in Rutshuru, eastern Congo. It was the first large-scale delivery there since fighting broke out last month. (Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)

KIWANJA, Congo - Aid workers in eastern Congo began feeding tens of thousands of hungry refugees in rebel-held areas yesterday, as a United Nations-appointed envoy started urgent talks aimed at averting a wider war....

***********

Fighting between Nkunda's Tutsi rebels and the Congolese army has forced some 250,000 people from their homes in North Kivu since late August, resulting in what the UN has called a humanitarian catastrophe and fears of a broader war.

And who is driving that war -- and why? If it were China and Sudan arming the factions, wouldn't that be broadcast in the AmeriKan MSM? As for tv news, the Congo might as well be invisible. I have seen nothing except presidential politics day after day after day.

For the first time after weeks of fighting, UN aid workers yesterday handed out rations of corn and lentils to the first of at least 50,000 hungry civilians in Rutshuru territory, the scene of weeks of battles between rebel and government forces. Under a hot sun, men, women, and children lined up quietly in a church compound and a football stadium after the UN World Food Program convoy crossed the front lines.....

Thank God they are getting something.

Congo President Joseph Kabila accuses neighboring Rwanda of supporting Nkunda, while southern African states led by Angola have said they are considering sending troops to back the Congolese army, or to bolster a stretched 17,000-strong UN force in Congo. But Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president, said he had received assurances from Angola that no Angolan troops were fighting with Congolese government forces, contrary to repeated rumors.

The Angolans have already been SEEN INSIDE CONGO!! C'mon, what gives? And due to the omission of arms suppliers, one can only conclude (through former colonial ties) that the French are arming the Rwandans, the Americans the Angolans, the British the Zimbabweans (unmentioned), and so on.

The BBC reported that.... Rwandan intelligence officers would go into Congo to work with the Congolese army and the international community to help end the presence of the Hutu fighters, which Nkunda gives as the justification for his rebellion. --more--"

The UN Security Council is likely to review the rules of engagement being used by the peacekeeping force, a spokesman for Brown's office said.  --more--"

Which will slow things down even more, right?  Sometimes one thinks the U.N. doesn't even want to help.

The coffin of a child who died of cholera was lowered into a grave in Kibati, in eastern Congo, yesterday. Fighting in the war-ravaged nation has forced thousands into refugee camps, where poor sanitation has increased the risk of disease. (Finbarr O'Reilly/ Reuters)

(Sigh.... sigh....  sigh.... )

GOMA, Congo - Angola announced yesterday that it is prepared to send troops to neighboring Congo, increasing fears that the fighting in this central African nation will engulf other countries in the region. 

To anyone following my posts on the Congo, the troops are already in-country.

Deputy Foreign Minister Georges Chicoty did not say how many troops might go to Congo or what their mission would be, and it was unclear whether they would be acting as peacekeepers or supporting the government in its fight against rebels led by former general Laurent Nkunda.

The presence of Angolan soldiers in the volatile region would probably be seen as a provocation to Rwanda, which battled Angolans during Congo's 1998-2002 war. The four-year-conflict ripped Congo into rival fiefdoms, with rebels supported by Uganda and Rwanda controlling vast swaths of territory rich in coffee, gold, and tin in the east. Angola and Zimbabwe sent tanks and fighter planes to back Congo's government in exchange for access to diamond and copper mines to the south and west.

That's what it is all about: mineral wealth and resources.  And for those, African children must die. And what's disgusting is the West is playing both sides here; if not, we'd be hearing about China or Sudan supplying one side with arms.  But you never hear that.  Trace the ties of colonialism; that will tell you who is arming whom.

Congo asked Angola for political and military support Oct. 29, as Nkunda's rebels advanced on the provincial capital, Goma. Associated Press reporters have already seen Portuguese-speaking soldiers wearing green berets with pins in the shape of Angola appearing to guard a road alongside Congolese soldiers. 

Told ya!

Fighting in Congo intensified in August and has since displaced at least 250,000 people despite the presence of the largest UN peacekeeping force in the world. United Nations officials say both the rebels and government troops have committed crimes against civilians. 

Or perhaps, BECAUSE of it!!  And as far as the atrocities, far more have been committed by the government!  Sort of like the situation in Columbia lo these many years, folks.

Nkunda called a unilateral cease-fire Oct. 29, but fighting has persisted.  After meeting Tuesday, members of the UN Security Council and the Congolese ambassador said broad agreement exists for beefing up the 17,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in Congo, which has been unable to stop the fighting or halt the rebel advance.  "The idea is more or less approved," Congo Ambassador Ileka Atoki said.

Translation: Look for more bloodshed, not less!

A rare nighttime gunbattle erupted late Tuesday between rebels and the army just north of Goma, at Kibati, where at least 75,000 people have sought refuge from the fighting.  A few miles to the south, thousands of people lined up to get survival kits being handed out from five Red Cross trucks. The kits contained buckets, blankets, soap, hoes, and cooking utensils, said Abdallah Togola, a Red Cross official in Kibati.  Togola said the area was reaching its capacity to handle refugees. --more--" 

Ever notice that DISEASES follow the U.N around like a puppy dog -- especially in Africa?

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Hundreds of Congolese soldiers rampaged through several villages in eastern Congo, raping women and pillaging homes as they pulled back ahead of a feared rebel advance, the UN reported yesterday.  UN peacekeeping spokesman Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich said the army troops had reportedly raped civilians near the town of Kanyabayonga in violent attacks that began overnight and lasted into the morning. Kanyabayonga is 60 miles north of the provincial capital, Goma. 

The U.N simply doesn't want to do anything about this (they could if they wanted to), which makes one suspicious that the west is driving this for whatever agenda.

Dietrich said 700 to 800 Congolese soldiers then fled Kanyabayonga and went on a rampage through several villages to the north. "They looted vehicles, they looted some houses," Dietrich said by telephone from Kinshasa, the national capital.  A rare nighttime gun battle erupted last night between rebels and the army just north of Goma, and the United Nations said it was trying to get the warring sides to move further apart. Mortars were also used during the nearly one-hour fight near Kibati, Dietrich said....

***********

Congo's armed forces are notoriously ill-disciplined soldiers, historically better at looting than standing their ground. In recent days, some have been seen manning checkpoints drunk.  Dietrich said the UN flew helicopters over the ravaged area yesterday, carried out foot patrols, and initiated an investigation into the violence with the Congolese army.  --more--" 

Hey, who is catching a lift in the photo, huh?

What PRECIOUS LIFE you are looking at, readers!

KIBATI, Congo - A cholera outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp has spread to eastern Congo's provincial capital of Goma, increasing fears of an epidemic amid a tense standoff between troops and rebels, officials said.

Cholera cases rose slightly yesterday in the towns of Goma and Kibati, with at least 90 known cases and six new admissions overnight. Officials with Doctors Without Borders said the cases they were treating were well-contained. Only four new ones were reported at the group's clinic in Kibati camp.

But dozens of people have died of cholera in recent weeks elsewhere in eastern Congo. Doctors also fear an epidemic behind rebel lines, where access has been limited by fighting and rebels have driven tens of thousands of people from camps where outbreaks had been contained. Also, refugee conditions in many places continue to worsen.

In an unofficial refugee camp set up in Goma for park rangers and their families, some 900 people crowded into plastic tents - some smaller than a sport utility vehicle - and hungrily eyed six large sacks of beans donated by an international Catholic charity.

They AIN'T ALL BAD, folks!!

Camp director Christian Shamavu was responsible for safeguarding gorillas and elephants as a ranger at Virunga National Park until a month ago. "It's easier to protect gorillas and elephants than people," Shamavu said yesterday. "Because the animals don't have sickness and have to go the hospital."

Those comments are both sad and a disgrace. Not that the animals are taken care of; that PEOPLE ARE NOT!!!

Families live less than 3 feet apart from one another, sharing five makeshift showers and scrabbling in the damp dirt to find space to cook, wash clothes, and entertain the children. In the last month, 33 people in the camp have contracted cholera. Sixty have contracted malaria. But families keep trickling in to take shelter from the rebels that now hold the park.

"We usually get a lot of new cases of cholera one, two days after the big rains," Shamavu said, as heavy drops began pelting from the dark skies. The humanitarian crisis has exploded since rebel leader Laurent Nkunda launched an offensive Aug. 28, stopping his forces at the gates of Goma before declaring a cease-fire.

Seeing as the Zionist MSM is blaming Nkunda for all the suffering, I am inclined to believe he is a defender of some sort. Either that, or the MSM is playing its obfuscating, agenda-pushing games again.

Retreating Congolese troops and rebels sent the population fleeing for their lives, and sporadic clashes have broken out since then. Thousands of refugees are packed into camps or sleeping out in the open, scrambling for washing and cooking water. Some 50,000 refugees have crowded around Kibati, some taken into log cabins by villagers, others living in tents or hastily built huts.

Weekend clashes between rebels and soldiers ignited concern that patients could scatter and launch an epidemic. But it appears unlikely that a European Union force will come to help stem the fighting. France failed to secure support yesterday from other EU nations for sending a 1,500-strong EU battlegroup to eastern Congo to bolster UN peacekeepers. --more--"

Unless the E.U. is TRULY coming to HELP, then I don't want them there.

"UN chief says 100,000 refugees trapped in Congo" by John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer  |  November 11, 2008


A displaced child and sibling walk through the Kituku displaced camp in Goma, eastern Congo, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. Over 200 families of park rangers from the Virunga national park one month ago, fleeing fighting between rebels and government forces that has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. secretary-general is calling for an immediate cease-fire to urgently help at least 100,000 refugees cut off by fighting in rebel-held areas north of Goma in eastern Congo.  Ban Ki-moon told reporters Tuesday that the refugees have almost no help and the situation is growing increasingly desperate

He said 250,000 people have been displaced by fighting in eastern Congo and "for 100,000 ... (the) lifeline has been cut off."

*********

GOMA, Congo (AP) -- Aid workers in eastern Congo said Tuesday they are concerned that thousands of refugees may be trapped behind rebel lines and in urgent need of food....  The situation is dire. Aid groups say 250,000 people have been displaced in eastern Congo since the fighting began. A new wave of 8,000 people from Rutshuru and Kiwanja has washed into a camp in Goma over the last three days.

"I haven't eaten properly in three weeks," said Teoneste Dies, 22. He fled his home three weeks ago with his wife and three children, surviving on the few potatoes they could scrounge.  On Tuesday, he waited with thousands of others for food aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross. The organization was distributing 45 metric tons of food -- enough to feed each family for 10 days.

In Kibati, six miles from Goma, about 70,000 people are living in makeshift camps. A long line snaked through town Tuesday morning as villagers picked up oil, maize flour, salt and beans....   Desire Burunga, 48, fled to Kibati with his four wives and twelve children in September, when fighting threatened his town of Kibumba.  "We used to live together and have no problem," said Burunga, a former county clerk....

Relief officials say they have recorded at least 90 cholera cases around Goma since Friday. Seven more were admitted to a clinic in Kibati on Monday night.  The World Health Organization said Tuesday it fears a cholera epidemic could break out if the fighting continues and people continue to live in makeshift camps without proper sanitation. At least 1,000 cases of cholera have been detected since the start of October....

--more--"

KIBATI, Congo - Doctors struggled yesterday to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, as renewed fighting ignited fears that patients could scatter and launch an epidemic.... 

What better way to get rid of those "useless eaters?"  Is it just coincidence that everywhere the U.N. has been in Africa has been followed by the outbreaks of diseases and infertility?

For more on such things, please visit: Prison Planet

Some 50,000 refugees have crowded around Kibati, some taken into log cabins by villagers, others living in tents or hastily built beehive-shaped huts. Thousands who sleep out in the open huddled under plastic sheeting yesterday as curtains of rain pounded down.  The relief organization Doctors Without Borders said it treated 13 new cases of cholera in Kibati yesterday and has seen 45 cases since Friday. Dr. Rafaela Gentilini said shortages of water and latrines were making the outbreak "really dangerous."

What did I say at the begging of posts today? Remember the $$$ and where it all goes?  If the world (or more exactly, the globalists running it) really wanted to solve these crisies they would; however, THEY DO NOT!  In fact, it is PART of their PLAN!

Dozens of people have died of cholera in recent weeks elsewhere in eastern Congo. Doctors also fear an epidemic north of Goma, behind rebel lines, where access has been limited by fighting and where rebels have driven tens of thousands of people from camps where outbreaks had been contained.  At the front line near Kibati, soldiers milled around yesterday, collecting pay, smoking marijuana, and looking unconcerned about the rebels, who were gathering less than a half a mile away. Intermittent gunshots crackled from the direction of government positions.

They were doing what?  Our thug proxies were getting stoned?

"I'm ready, ready to kill Nkunda!" said First Sergeant Claude Kazunga, 33, raising his AK-47. "If they provoke us, we will push them back."  Other soldiers hoped for a more peaceful solution.  "The [heavy] weapons that are being fired around here . . . we are killing our own parents," said Lieutenant Jean-Paul Briki. "There must be negotiations."

(Blog author can't comment right now; in fact, he can't really see the keyboard too well through the water in his eyes)

In Kibati yesterday, rain soaked two young brothers wearing rags and plastic sandals who said they had walked from Rugari, 17 miles away. Kasigue, who said he was 12 but appeared far younger, shivered as he clutched a clump of green onions and some electrical wire. His brother Gasaza huddled under a dirty plastic sheet. The boys were separated from their parents when fighting erupted and hoped to find them at Kibati.

"We've been walking since morning," Gasaza said.

KIBATI, Congo - Rebels and militiamen who fought one another in an east Congo town this week committed war crimes by executing civilians, Congo's top United Nations envoy said yesterday. An independent human rights group said it believes dozens of people were killed.

The UN made the accusation as the Congolese Army advanced toward rebel lines in renewed fighting near the provincial capital, Goma, that threatens a fragile rebel-called cease-fire....  Aid workers say these huge movements of people threaten to spread epidemics of cholera, measles, and severe diarrhea that had been contained in refugee camps....

Sigh The situation just keeps getting worse and worse.  Either the U.N. is impotent, or the west is driving this stuff!

Alan Doss, the UN's top official in Congo, said the fighters carried out "war crimes that we cannot tolerate."  UN investigators on Friday visited 11 graves containing what villagers said were 26 bodies, said Sylvie van den Wildenberg, UN spokeswoman. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the death toll could be higher. 

No, they will just tolerate them in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, etc, etc, etc. 

"We are getting reports of more than 50 dead, but we are still in the process of confirming that information," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a researcher with Human Rights Watch.  Rebel soldiers said Thursday that they killed 60 people in the village, but that they were all combatants even though many were not in uniform. Van den Wildenberg said it appeared the rebels committed many more executions than the militia.

That's what the U.N says, huh?  Gotcha, globalists and agenda-pushing MSM!   Obviously, the rebels are threatening western interests -- or the west is backing the rebels to create chaos in the region and the press is once again playing a shit-fooley on the public.

UN officials say residents suffered two waves of terror: first the Mai Mai militia came in and killed people it accused of supporting the rebels; then the rebels won control and killed those they alleged had supported the militia.  Residents said the rebels killed many of their victims execution-style, with bullets to the head. Some residents said the rebels then dressed the dead, most of them young men, in military uniforms.

Now I KNOW the papers are AGAINST the rebels!!! 

Also see: Asymmetrical Warfare Group

Is that where they learned it, MSM?

The conflict is fueled by ethnic hatred left over from the 1994 slaughter of a half-million Tutsis in Rwanda. Nkunda says he is fighting to protect minority Tutsis from Rwandan Hutu rebels who participated in the genocide and then fled to Congo.  Near Goma yesterday, hundreds of soldiers stood guard along the road. Others could be seen through the fog that shrouded nearby hills.

I wouldn't be surprised if the west was arming both sides.  Seems to be a pattern, especially in Africa.

Also read France's Mass-Murdering Holocaust Deniers

Among them, reporters saw Portuguese-speaking black soldiers wearing green berets with pins in the shape of a map of Angola. As of Friday, chief UN envoy to Congo Alan Doss said he did not have direct independent confirmation that Angolan soldiers were in Congo.

That's because they are OUR GUYS!!!!  It's called OBFUSCATION!

Van den Wildenberg said people could be confused by Congolese Army soldiers who lived in exile in Angola for years fighting for the separatist Katanga Tigers. She said she did not know why the soldiers' berets would have pins with a map of Angola.

I've got a pretty good reason why! They are ANGOLAN TROOPS!

The presence of Angolans could be seen as a provocation by neighboring Rwanda, raising fears that Congo's conflicts could again spill over its borders. --more--" 

Sure seems like it is being PUSHED THAT WAY!!  And CUI BONO, 'eh, readers? Who wants those RESOURCES?

GOMA, Congo - Furious mobs stoned UN peacekeepers' compounds yesterday and thousands of desperate people fled advancing rebel troops as chaos returned to eastern Congo, fueled by festering hatreds left over from the Rwandan genocide and the country's unrelenting civil wars.....  Crowds of protesters threw rocks outside four UN compounds in Goma, venting outrage at what they said was a failure to protect them from rebels. Later in the day, peacekeepers in helicopter gunships attacked rebel forces surging on Kibumba, about 30 miles north of Goma, said UN spokeswoman Sylvie van den Wildenberg."

"Tens of thousands of civilians flee in Congo; Envoy: Soldiers opened fire" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | October 29, 2008

KILIMANYOKA, Congo - Rebels vowing to take Congo's eastern provincial capital advanced toward Goma yesterday, sending tens of thousands fleeing. The top UN envoy said government soldiers had fired on civilians and foreign aid workers trying to escape the region. Alan Doss, the top UN envoy in Congo, said peacekeepers were forced to "respond" after government soldiers fired on civilians and trapped foreign aid workers trying to leave Rutshuru, a strategic town north of Goma. He vowed to keep Rutshuru and other towns out of rebel hands."

"Congo soldiers, refugees flee rebels' advance; Amid chaos, US officials depart key city" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | October 30, 2008

....  As gunfire crackled in this eastern provincial capital, the Tutsi rebels said they had reached the outskirts of Goma and declared a unilateral cease-fire to prevent panic as the army retreats and residents flee. Congo said Rwandan troops had crossed the border and attacked its soldiers - raising the specter that neighboring nations will again be drawn into Congo's war. Rwanda's Tutsi-led government immediately denied the charge, but Congo turned to Angola for help defending its territory..... Thousands of panicked refugees clogged the dirt roads out of Goma, struggling to reach safety. Women carrying huge bundles on their heads and babies in their arms trudged alongside men pushing crude wooden carts crammed with clothing, food and cooking utensils. Bewildered children walked alongside. Young boys led goats and pigs on tethers as men on bicycles weaved in and out."

GOMA, Congo - With a cease-fire appearing to halt most fighting, a rebel leader said yesterday that he wanted direct talks with the Congo government on ending violence in the region, and envoys from the United States and United Nations were dispatched to help set up negotiations.  Sporadic gunfire could still be heard last night in Goma, the provincial capital of eastern Congo, but the city was calm for much of the day. That was in sharp contrast to Wednesday, when tens of thousands of residents, refugees, and government soldiers fled in a chaotic torrent ahead of advancing rebels. When the sun went down, drunk soldiers pillaged and raped in Goma, killing at least nine people in their homes, according to UN Radio Okapi."

"With Congo cease-fire called, weary refugees trudge home; UN oversees truce between rulers, rebels" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | November 1, 2008

....  Associated Press reporters saw a crush of people, sweat streaming down their faces, back on Congo's dirt roads again after fleeing the battlefront between the army and Laurent Nkunda's rebel movement. "We've had nothing to eat for three days," said Rhema Harerimana, traveling with one baby nursing at her breast, another on her back, and a toddler clinging to her skirt.

Displaced Congolese leave Goma, where rebels halted their advance Wednesday and called for a cease-fire. (WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/Getty Images)

GOMA, Congo - A United Nations aid convoy protected by UN peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo today to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the UN said yesterday.

Look at 'em, readers. They do NOT DESERVE THIS!!!!

A woman cooked yesterday at a camp for refugees near Goma in eastern Congo. The United Nations is trying to help tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting in the country. (Karel Prinsloo/ Associated Press)

"Congo refugees get soap, no food; UN officials say priority is to resupply clinics" by Michelle Faul, Associated Press | November 4, 2008

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo - Refugees who hadn't eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived yesterday at their camp, but the jubilation turned into anger when UN workers dumped soap and jerry cans instead of food and sped on past rebel lines.  UN officials admit hunger at the Kibati camp, where tens of thousands of refugees have sought safety, is dire but say their first priority is resupplying clinics looted by retreating government troops.

Food, however, was the critical issue for most people. "Everybody is hungry, everybody," said Jean Bizy, 25, a teacher who watched with envy as the UN convoy stopped to deliver a sack of potatoes to UN troops in Rugari. Bizy said he has been surviving on wild bananas for days.  Onesphore Sematumba, of local think tank Pole Institute, watched with horror as thousands of children lined up in the sun for hours at the Kibati camp to get tokens that will allow them to queue for high-energy biscuits. The children thought they were waiting for the biscuits. --more--"

Hey, they didn't make it to the U.N. dining room I guess:

"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....

I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream."

Also see: The MSM and the Meal

I'm sorry, but the U.N. is INHUMAN!!! And they could protect our people?

Pffft!

"Fears of regional war over Congo increasing; Border nations watched warily; Storms intensify plight of refugees" by Michelle Faul and Todd Pitman, Associated Press | November 5, 2008


A Congolese girl yesterday received boxes of high-nutrition cookies from international relief workers at the Kibati refugee camp. (Walter Astrada/ AFP/ Getty Images)

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Congo's warring rivals traded accusations yesterday that Angola, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda are mobilizing forces to fight in Congo, as the prime minister flew into this besieged city to assess weeks of fighting that has displaced a quarter million people.  The accusations of foreign involvement, reminiscent of a disastrous 1998-2002 war that drew in eight African nations, stoked fears of a wider conflict in this mineral-rich nation. The fighting has forced tens of thousands of refugees to struggle through the countryside with what belongings they can carry. Tropical rainstorms, which have drenched eastern Congo every day, add to their misery.

"Thousands in Congo flee fighting by rebels, militiamen; Elsewhere, wider cease-fire holds ahead of summit" by Anita Powell, Associated Press | November 6, 2008


Congolese people displaced by the latest fighting sought refuge near the UN base in the village of Kiwanja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

KIWANJA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Sporadic gunfire and explosions echoed yesterday around this town in eastern Congo, as rebels fought pro-government militiamen for a second day, forcing thousands of people to flee....  Associated Press journalists who visited Kiwanja at midday saw several thousand people on the roads, including mothers with babies on their backs."

"Government forces, rebels clash in Congo; Cease-fire still holds, but UN force criticized" by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | November 8, 2008

NAIROBI - A shaky cease-fire in eastern Congo ruptured again yesterday when a skirmish between rebels and government troops sent thousands of civilians fleeing a displacement camp as they lined up to receive food aid.  At a summit of African leaders in Nairobi, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that the crisis is threatening to embroil the entire region.

There were reports that Angolan troops had joined Congolese soldiers battling rebels near the city of Goma, but Ban said he had no evidence that Angolans had entered Congo.  UN peacekeeping officials said yesterday's skirmish started when a squad of rebels fired their guns in the air near Kibati, outside Goma. Fearing they were under attack, government troops lobbed artillery and mortar shells at the rebels, prompting a 40-minute battle.

That's the U.N. helping!!

"It was an accident," said Colonel Jean Paul Dietrich, a UN spokesman. He said peacekeeping troops responded and the situation quickly was contained.  The rebel leader, General Laurent Nkunda, last week declared a cease-fire, but clashes have resumed in recent days.  Both sides in Congo accuse the other of receiving foreign assistance. Rebels say the government is helped by Angola and Zimbabwe. Congo's government accuses the Tutsi-led government of Rwanda of backing Nkunda. 

More than likely, all the weaponry is being supplied West.  Both sides.

UN officials said they are investigating the allegations of outside involvement. They say there is evidence that Rwanda's military has fired weapons across the border at Congolese troops, but no proof that Rwandan troops crossed the border.  Angola is known to be providing special forces training to the Congolese Army and has military advisers in Congo, but it was unclear whether Angolan troops had taken part in fighting according to one UN official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment. 

OUR GUYS!! That's why it is kept quiet!!

Aid groups say ongoing violence is blocking efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the nearly 1 million people displaced by the violence, including 250,000 driven from their homes over the last two months.  --more--"

Please read: Behind the Numbers Untold Suffering in the Congo and The War that did not make the Headlines: Over Five Million Dead in Congo? for context, because the Zionist MSM will give you none of it.

Also read France's Mass-Murdering Holocaust Deniers to see how they cover up the western role in this area, and note the bias against the "rebel liberator."

I'll tell you, when you have a murderous government lined up with globalists and the Zionist AmeriKan MSM against you, that says something.

"Villagers found slain in Congo; Rebels accused, but say dead were militia" by Anita Powell, Associated Press | November 7, 2008

KIWANJA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town trickled home yesterday to find the bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes in and around mud huts - and accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings.

Nkunda's men wrested control of Kiwanja Wednesday following heavy fighting with a pro-government militia called Mai Mai, one of many signs that the conflict is spreading in eastern Congo and a fragile cease-fire is close to unraveling.

The villagers said rebels had killed unarmed civilians suspected of supporting the Mai Mai, but the rebels said the dead were militia fighters who had been armed. A UN official said Kiwanja was in fact subjected to two rounds of terror: First the Mai Mai arrived and killed those they accused of supporting Nkunda's rebels, then Nkunda's rebels stormed in, killing men they charged were loyal to the Mai Mai.

Oh, so the REBELS werre DEFENDING, huh? Not the way the s***ty Zionist MSM made it sound. Makes me think of the way they report Palestine.

Human Rights Watch said UN peacekeepers nearby had been unable to protect the villagers.

That sounds SOOOO much like Srebinicia!!!!

It said at least 20 people were killed and another 33 wounded during the battle for the town. "The UN should not leave these defenseless people to be slaughtered by fighters on both sides," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior Africa researcher for the rights group.

I notice how the government doesn't come in for the same criticism in the Zionist MSM!

North of Kiwanja, rebels captured an army base in Nyanzale yesterday after fighting with the army, the UN said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate cease-fire and urged the armed groups involved to find a political solution.

Ban was flying to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to attend an African Union summit todayaimed at bringing peace to the region. Congo President Joseph Kabila is expected, along with Rwanda President Paul Kagame, who wields strong influence over rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi-led rebels.

That's all the U.N. ever does -- talk! They never stop anything (not stopping this, didn't stop invasion of Iraq). Of course, that is not what that globalist organization is meant for. In fact, their mission seems to be INCREASING SUFFERING around the world!

Dozens of militia groups operate in the remote terraced valleys and hills of eastern Congo, a lawless region that the government and a 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission have struggled to bring under control for years.

Among the armed groups are the Mai Mai and ethnic Hutu insurgents from Rwanda who fled to Congo after helping carry out Rwanda's 1994 bloody genocide. In Kiwanja yesterday, an AP reporter was led by frightened, whispering residents to huts where she counted the bodies of 16 people - covered with blankets or sheets - in one small part of Kiwanja. All but two were men, the residents said. None appeared armed.

Chorade Muhimdo, 38, said residents who stayed in Kiwanja despite rebel orders to leave were inside their homes when rebels "came and shot them." "There's no reason," he said. "Once they think you are Mai Mai, they have to kill you."

One woman, 47-year-old Ajeni Niragasigwa, said rebels killed her 17-year-old son while he was trying to cross a rebel checkpoint. "They came to kill the people," she said, tears streaming down her face. "They did not come to protect."

She held her cheeks in her hands, looked to the skies and wailed: "Congo!" Rebel Captain John Imani said about 60 people had been killed in the fighting, mostly Mai Mai. "Whoever is moving with a gun, he's an enemy," Imani said.

Nkunda's spokesman, Bertrand Bisimwa, said armed government troops and allied Mai Mai militia had infiltrated Kiwanja in civilian clothes and began killing villagers who supported the rebels.

Translation: OUR GUYS because that is the KIND of THING THEY DO!!!!

Nkunda defected from the army in 2004, saying he needed to protect his tiny Tutsi minority from Rwandan Hutu militias. He has since expanded his mission to "liberating" Congo from an allegedly corrupt government.

I now believe after what I've been reading the last few days.

Nkunda told The Associated Press yesterday that his mission justifies the suffering of some 250,000 forced from their homes since he launched an offensive Aug. 28. He also suggested that Congo's army was being bolstered by foreign militias from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.

Would the MSM say that about George Bush in Iraq or Afghanistan? I think my point has been made.

Congo's government has charged Nkunda with involvement in war crimes, and Human Rights Watch says it has documented summary executions, torture, and rape committed by soldiers under Nkunda's command in 2002 and 2004. --more--"

And WHAT of the GOVERNMENT, HRW??

What, you ANOTHER ZIONIST TOOL or what??