WHO CARES? I9m sure most readers of the Anarchist Age are very familiar with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when nearly a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by a Hutu dominated government. Since Burundi and Rwanda, two landlocked central African countries bordering the great lakes gained their independence, the minority Tutsis had dominated the majority Hutus. The brutal slaughter in both of these countries is a legacy of the European colonisation process that saw the colonisers using the minority Tutsis to dominate the majority Hutus, How many Anarchist Age readers know about the genocide that has been and continues to be carried out in this part of the world by the Ugandan and Rwanda armies over the past few years is a matter for debate. Over the past three years the Rwandan and Ugandan armies have crossed the great lakes and have launched a genocidal attacks in Eastern Congo that have left over 3 million people dead. The widespread death and destruction in the Eastern Congo has hardly rated a mention in the media, let alone the United Nations or a terrorist obsessed United States. The Ugandan and Rwandan armies have the full support of the West in their genocidal assults in Eastern Congo. The prize is the opening up of this mineral rich area to Western corporations. It9s no accident that the Ugandan and Rwandan armies are bankrolled and supported by the United States and Britain. The displacement and murder of millions, has been the price that has to be paid to secure the area for Western interests. What the United States and European powers have forgotten is that the behaviour they are currently supporting in the region, is the type of behaviour that leads to mass slaughter, ethnic cleansing and dispossession. As far as they are concerned these unnecessary deaths are the collateral damage that occurs when the West is involved in the struggle to secure the economic future of both Europe and the United States. While the whole world seems to be concerned about the situation in Zimbabwe, little attention is being devoted to what9s happening in the Congo. As far as massacres are concerned the deaths that have occurred at the hands of the Ugandan and Rwandan armies over the past three years, surpass the number of Cambodians killed during the Khmer Rouge9s reign in Cambodia. The reason we hear very little about what9s happening in this part of the world is directly linked to the fact that the current massacres directly benefits the West. END. Wonder how the western saharan's are going,also.We should all care what happens in Africa,it was probably where we all came from originally.
