“Tens of thousands of children in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo are being slaughtered, raped or enslaved to fight in rebel armies in what aid agencies are calling one of the largest humanitarian emergencies in the world.
‘The situation is nothing short of genocide, with over three million people killed since 1998 – many of these women and children,’ says David Agnew, president of UNICEF Canada, who just returned to Toronto from a week in the central African country.
Agnew said the deaths do not represent only those killed directly in battle, but also millions who died in massacres or from disease and hunger.” canadaeast.com [via walker]
Isn’t there enough natural wealth or geopolitical advantage to justify a Bush cabal ‘humanitarian’ intervention in the DRC?
