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Children of Conflict - Congo - Part 1
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Children of Conflict looks at the Democratic Republic of Congo where child soldiers have been used in fighting between tribes and many have had to carry the guilt of rape, murder and pillage.

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Children of Conflict - Congo - Part 2
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Children of Conflict looks at the Democratic Republic of Congo where child soldiers have been used in fighting between tribes and many have had to carry the guilt of rape, murder and pillage.

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US trained Ethiopian soldiers rape poor Somali women
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Willing Executioners: America's Bipartisan Atrocity Deepens in Somalia
by Chris Floyd
Wednesday, 7 May 2008 Until we have a politics that considers the fate of all people to be just as important as the fate of "Americans", there will be no end to this cycle of atrocity and terror, no end to ruin and revenge, no real change, no matter who is elected.Do you want to know what the entire American political establishment -- Democrat and Republican, conservative and "progressive" -- really stands for? Do you want to know what they all support, whole-heartedly, without the slightest objection or demur? Do you want to see their true vision for the world, behind all the pious rhetoric and poisonous lies? Then look no further; here it is, in the raw:

A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women. (AP)

"The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured; looting is widespread and entire neighbourhoods are being destroyed," said Michelle Kagari, Africa Programme Deputy Director at Amnesty International, speaking from Nairobi.

Witnesses described to Amnesty International an increasing incidence of Ethiopian troops killing by what is locally termed "slaughtering" or "killing like goats" -- referring to killing by slitting the throat. The victims of these killings are often left lying in pools of blood in the streets until armed fighters, including snipers, move out of the area and relatives can collect their bodies.

In one case, a 15-year-old girl found her father with his throat cut upon returning home from school, after Ethiopian security forces swept through her neighbourhood.

Other cases in the report include:

Haboon, a 56-year-old woman from Mogadishu, who said her neighbour's 17-year-old daughter was raped by Ethiopian troops. When her 13 and 14-year-old sons tried to defend their sister, the soldiers beat them and took their eyes out with a bayonet. The mother fled. It is not known what happened to the boys. This girl is in a coma as a result of the injuries she sustained during the attack.

Guled, aged 32, who said that he saw his neighbours "slaughtered". He said he saw many men whose throats were slit and whose bodies were left in the street. Some had their testicles cut off. He also saw women being raped. In one incident, his newly-wed neighbour whose husband was not home was raped by over twenty Ethiopian soldiers. (Garowe Online)

Ceebla'a, aged 63, from Wardhiigley, said she fled Mogadishu on 15 November 2007 with her young children after some shooting in the area. One day she saw three men leaving their shops being picked up by Ethiopian soldiers for investigation. The next morning she saw the bodies of the three men on the street. One was strangled with electrical wire. The second had his throat cut. The third had been chained ankle to wrist, and his testicles had been smashed. (Amnesty report)

These Ethiopian troops were armed, trained and funded by the Bush Administration, then sent into Somalia as a proxy army for yet another Terror War "regime change" operation in late 2006. American military forces have been directly involved in the operation, on the side of the invaders, throughout the conflict, from the very beginning to this day -- as evidenced by the U.S. missile attack last week that killed at least two dozen civilians in the course of an "extrajudicial" assassination of a Somali insurgent leader.

American forces have bombed fleeing refugees, slaughtered innocent herdsmen and destroyed villages in attempts to assassinate a handful of individual alleged, on shaky and specious evidence, to be "part of" or "associated with" or "linked to" al Qaeda. American agents have seized refugees from the Somali war, including U.S. citizens, and had them "renditioned" to the notorious prisons of the Ethiopian dictatorship. And as we have noted here many times, the Bush Administration has sent in death squads to "kill anyone left alive" after American strikes.

Tags:   Somalia   Somali   Somalian   Ethiopia   Darfur   Genocide   Bush   Iraq   Sudan

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Google Darfur DVD Release- Trailer
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Google Darfur is Available Now On DVD.
This is a new trailer for the release.
You Can Order The DVD At:
http://GoogleDarfur.com

Tell a friend
email the youtube video links
Do whatever you can to spread the word
Peace Truth and Love,
Google Darfur
Music By
the Wonderfully Talented Zoe Keating

Tags: Darfur   Google   Trailer   New   DVD   Sudan   Chad   Africa   Genocide   Oil   Rape   War   Documentary   Now   George   Clooney   Angelina   Jolie

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Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace
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This is an African story of God's amazing grace. Northern Uganda is at war. Those most affected, the Acholi people, endure rape, torture and child abduction. Thousands have died, others are missing. Despite all this, the Acholi people are ready to forgive. http://www.elca.org

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Re: [Channel 4 News] Horror of Congo's forgotten war 2008.03.27
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Tags:   Channel4   News   Congo   Democratic   Republic   DRC   RDC   Africa   Afrique   war   refugees   rape   Kivu   Goma   Interahamwe   FDLR   Hutu   Rwanda

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Short Talk with a Sudanese Refugee (Darfur)
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A refugee of Darfur speaks about the genocide occurring in his home country.

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Death, Tears, Lost Lives, Equal Loss, Africa, Rape, Why?
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I just saw something random (sadly not that random) on the news, that I guess hit with me at the moment... But, really, I am confused about this...

Yes i know people outside of the US watch me... but this isnt exactly towards them, because I dont know your government's stance on these things... but I do know my govs stance and my own!

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[Channel 4 News] Horror of Congo's forgotten war 2008.03.27
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By Jonathan Miller:

"The war formally ended five years ago - but the fighting didn't. It just carried on, ignored by much of the world.

One shocking statistic: every single month 45,000 people are killed. The Democratic Republic of Congo remains one of the most dangerous and isolated places on earth.

The accompanying video contains photographs and film which offer a rare insight into Africa's forgotten war. They show the suffering of civilians and the use of rape as a weapon of war - against children as young as two.

Congo's recent history had offered hope: a fresh peace deal agreed in January between the Congolese government and the majority of the rebel groups operating in the eastern Kivu region, next door to Rwanda.

The aim was to end months of violence that has displaced tens of thousands of people. But many of the rebel groups who signed the deal have been blamed for the continuing atrocities.

One of the most notorious of them - the FDLR, or Interahamwe - did not participate in the act of engagement deal. The FDLR is made up of Hutus who crossed the border after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Photographer Susan Schulman has just returned from north Kivu with still and filmed footage, along with other material from Medecins Sans Frontieres."

Tags:   Channel4   News   Congo   Democratic   Republic   DRC   RDC   Africa   Afrique   war   refugees   rape   Kivu   Goma   Interahamwe   FDLR   Hutu   Rwanda

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