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18 Sep 2010, 8:09 pm

Violence spirals out of control in east Congo

WALIKALE, Congo – First the rebel soldiers told residents of the villages in the mineral-rich eastern Congo not to worry. They were just there for a rest and would do no harm. But as dusk fell, the fighters encircled five villages simultaneously, and the gang rapes began.

Six or seven men lined up to take their turn. The victims ranged from a month-old baby boy to a 110-year-old great-great-grandmother.

They forced husbands and children to watch as they gang-raped the villagers for four days. Some victims told doctors the fighters raped them with their fists, saying "We're looking for the gold.".........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100917/ap_ ... ithout_end

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18 Sep 2010, 11:54 pm

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The victims ranged from a month-old baby boy to a 110-year-old great-great-grandmother.

I have.... no words.... for this abomination.

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19 Sep 2010, 12:12 am

I feel sick.

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19 Sep 2010, 12:28 am

(sarcasm)Gee i wish that some large country with shedloads of military hardware could step in there and help the people, instead of small northern countries with limited international capabilities would have to do all the work.(/sarcasm)

There are many more atrocities going on in Africa, just google Rwanda and Darfur. People didn't even notice that 500000 people were killed in a civil war at the Rwanda/Burundi border area just a few years ago. But then again, those countries are poor, they have no oil or other natural resources of interest so why should anyone care - right?

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19 Sep 2010, 12:34 am

Better not read about the Soviet occupation at the end of WWII...

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19 Sep 2010, 1:11 am

You would cry if you heard the stories of Sierre Leone where they liked to play games with their victims. They would make you reach into a hat to pull out a little slip of paper. On the paper was a torture. Chop off hand, chop off foot, chop off lips, chop off head, or let go were the random selections. They also had a betting game where they get a pregnate women and split open her belly so they could bet on the sex of the baby. Africa is well know worse stuff that I will spare you of having to read.

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20 Sep 2010, 7:52 pm

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Hey! The Congo rebels are on the side of Good v Evil. They are with Paul Kagame, the greatest saint in African history who is celebrated as such wherever he goes. Hail Kagame! The rapes? They were blessing these people by their exalted presence - after all it's not what is done, it's who does it!

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21 Sep 2010, 4:39 am

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Silver_Meteor wrote:

I have to ask, as I guess I'm not up to speed on current events in the Congo, but who the f**k is Paul Kagame?

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21 Sep 2010, 4:52 am

He is the leader of Rwanda and the one who brought and end to the Rwanda genocide (methinks) who has been named in recently leaked UN docs as the brains (or lack thereof) behind some of the genocide in the Congo.

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21 Sep 2010, 7:54 pm

Crimes of war topic

I hope some of this was videotaped, though I know it sounds even more cruel, but evidence is needed to bring these rapists to justice. :evil:

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21 Sep 2010, 8:25 pm

No its not. If you think justice would be sitting in some cell in civilized society i think you have made an error in your thinking someone should just find them and kill them.

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21 Sep 2010, 9:02 pm

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No its not. If you think justice would be sitting in some cell in civilized society i think you have made an error in your thinking someone should just find them and kill them.

If we could just scare up an angry billionaire that doesn't mind bending some international laws, I probably know just the guys for this sort of work (it's amazing the sorts of people you meet when you go to school to build guns). Bill Gates isn't angry enough, and probably isn't built for this sort of thing, maybe Ross Perot...

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21 Sep 2010, 9:05 pm

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He was the leader of the Tutsi rebel group the RPF which indeed brought an end to the genocide. The French government accuses Paul Kagame and the RPF of shooting down the plane of the Hutu Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana thus sparking the genocide while Kagame accuses the French of trying to deflect blame away from themselves for supporting the Hutu regime that carried out the genocide.

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21 Sep 2010, 9:07 pm

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ikorack wrote:

No its not. If you think justice would be sitting in some cell in civilized society i think you have made an error in your thinking someone should just find them and kill them.

Is Ross Perot still alive? How old is he now, and how senile these days?

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21 Sep 2010, 9:39 pm

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Is Ross Perot still alive? How old is he now, and how senile these days?

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I'm pretty sure he's still alive and kickin', though my plan only requires that he still be able to sign checks. Although I'm mostly joking, I've heard rumors that he once tried to privately finance an incursion into Vietnam to look for missing POWs and that the government quietly dissuaded him, not sure how much I believe that though. You should show Perot a bit more respect BTW, without him as a spoiler Bush I would most likely have been reelected and Clinton would have stayed a scandal prone Arkansas governor.

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28 Sep 2010, 12:29 am

Todesking wrote:

People like that should be killed in the most painful way possible.

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