What should the international community do?

Good question, clear answers: leave Congo alone said one blogger.

How?

- International community should stop supporting dictatorship in the Congo. No more Mobutus, No more Kabilas. Let the Lumumbas rise.

- International community should stop financing and supporting Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa who are providing money, amunitions and guns to rebel fractions. Netherlands has just stopped financing rwandan governement because of that.

- International community should take to justice for war crimes all the CEO of the companies named at exploiting illegally Congo resources by sending kids to mining. That's a big fish!

- The Court of La Haye should judge all the people responsible and named at creating terror among civilians in the Congo. They have to be judged for crimes against humanity. How come that Laurent Kundabatware is greeted by UN soldiers while he is wanted by the International Court!

If this is done, things will be very different in the Congo

Que la Communauté internationale devrait-elle faire pour le Congo ?
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Que la communauté internationale devrait-elle faire ?

Bonne question, réponses d'espace libre : laissez au Congo seul ledit un blogger.

Comment ?

- La communauté internationale devrait cesser de soutenir la dictature au Congo. Plus de Mobutus, plus de Kabilas. Laissez l'élévation de Lumumbas.

- La communauté internationale devrait cesser de financer et soutenir le Rwanda, l'Ouganda et l'Afrique du Sud qui fournissent l'argent, des amunitions et des pistolets aux fractions rebelles. Les Pays Bas ont juste cessé de financer le governement rwandais en raison de celui.

- La communauté internationale devrait prendre à la justice pour des crimes de guerre tout PRÉSIDENT des compagnies appelées à exploiter illégalement des ressources du Congo en envoyant des enfants au mien. C'est un grand poisson !

- La cour de la La Haye devrait juger toutes personnes responsables et appelées à créer la terreur parmi des civils au Congo. Ils doivent être jugés pour des crimes contre l'humanité. Comment se fait-il que ce Laurent Kundabatware soit salué par des soldats de l'ONU tandis qu'il est voulu par la cour internationale !

Si ceci est fait, les choses seront très différentes au Congo

¿Qué debe la comunidad internacional hacer para el Congo?
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¿Qué debe la comunidad internacional hacer?

Buena pregunta, respuestas del claro: deje a Congo el un blogger dicho solo.

¿Cómo?

- La comunidad internacional debe parar el apoyar de la dictadura en el Congo. No más de Mobutus, no más de Kabilas. Deje la subida de Lumumbas.

- La comunidad internacional debe parar el financiar y el apoyar de Rwanda, de Uganda y de Suráfrica que estén proporcionando el dinero, amunitions y los armas a las fracciones rebeldes. Países Bajos acaban de parar el financiar del governement rwandan debido a ése.

- La comunidad internacional debe llevar a la justicia para los crímenes de guerra a todo el CEO de las compañías nombradas en explotar ilegal los recursos de Congo enviando a cabritos a minar. ¡Eso es un pescado grande!

- La corte del La Haye debe juzgar a toda la gente responsable y nombrada en crear terror entre civiles en el Congo. Tienen que ser juzgados para los crímenes contra humanidad. ¡Como se hace los soldados de la O.N.U saluda ese Laurent Kundabatware mientras que la corte internacional lo desea!

Si se hace esto, las cosas serán muy diferentes en el Congo

Che cosa dovrebbe la Comunità internazionale fare per il Congo?
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Che cosa dovrebbe la Comunità internazionale fare?

Buona domanda, risposte della radura: lasci al Congo l'un blogger detto solo.

Come?

- La Comunità internazionale dovrebbe smettere di sostenere il dictatorship nel Congo. Più Mobutus, più Kabilas. Lasci l'aumento di Lumumbas.

- La Comunità internazionale dovrebbe smettere di finanziare e sostenere la Ruanda, l'Uganda e la Sudafrica che stanno fornendo i soldi, i amunitions e le pistole alle frazioni ribelli. I Paesi Bassi hanno smesso appena di finanziare il governement rwandan a causa di quello.

- La Comunità internazionale dovrebbe prendere a giustizia per i crimini di guerra tutto il CEO delle aziende chiamate a sfruttare illegalmente le risorse del Congo trasmettendo i capretti ad estrarre. Quello è un pesce grande!

- La corte di La Haye dovrebbe giudicare tutta la gente responsabile e chiamata a generare il terrore fra i civili nel Congo. Devono essere giudicati per i crimini contro umanità. Come mai quel Laurent Kundabatware greeted dai soldati di NU mentre è desiderato dalla corte internazionale!

Se questo è fatto, le cose saranno molto differenti nel Congo

Was sollte internationale Gemeinschaft für den Kongo tun?
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Was sollte die internationale Gemeinschaft tun?

Gute Frage, Raumantworten: lassen Sie dem Kongo allein besagtes blogger.

Wie?

- Internationale Gemeinschaft sollte Diktatur, im Kongo zu stützen stoppen. No more Mobutus, No more Kabilas. Lassen Sie den Lumumbas Aufstieg.

- Internationale Gemeinschaft sollte Ruanda, Uganda und Südafrika zu finanzieren und zu stützen stoppen, die Geld, amunitions und Gewehren zu den rebellischen Brüchen zur Verfügung stellen. Die Niederlande haben gerade gestoppt, rwandan governement wegen dessen zu finanzieren.

- Internationale Gemeinschaft sollte zur Gerechtigkeit für Kriegsverbrechen allen CEO der Firmen nehmen, die an der Kongo Betriebsmittel illegal ausnutzen genannt werden, indem sie Zicklein zum Bergbau schickt. Der ist ein grosser Fisch!

- Das Gericht von La Haye sollte alle Leute beurteilen verantwortlich und am Verursachen des Terrors unter Zivilisten im Kongo genannt. Sie müssen für Verbrechen gegen Menschlichkeit beurteilt werden. Wie kommt es dieser Laurent Kundabatware von den UNO Soldaten gegrüßt wird, während er durch das internationale Gericht gewünscht wird!

Wenn dieses getan wird, sind Sachen im Kongo sehr unterschiedlich

Que deve a comunidade internacional fazer para o Congo?
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Que deve a comunidade internacional fazer?

Pergunta boa, respostas do espaço livre: deixe a Congo o um blogger dito sozinho.

Como?

- A comunidade internacional deve parar de suportar o dictatorship no Congo. Não mais Mobutus, não mais Kabilas. Deixe a ascensão de Lumumbas.

- A comunidade internacional deve parar de financiar e suportar Rwanda, Uganda e África do Sul que estão fornecendo o dinheiro, os amunitions e os injetores às frações rebel. Os Países Baixos pararam de apenas financiar o governement rwandan por causa daquele.

- A comunidade internacional deve fazer exame à justiça para crimes de guerra de todo o CEO das companhias nomeadas em explorar ilegal recursos de Congo emitindo miúdos a minar. Aquele é um peixe grande!

- A corte do La Haye deve julgar todos os povos responsáveis e nomeados em criar o terror entre civis no Congo. Têm que ser julgados para crimes de encontro ao humanity. Como vindo que Laurent Kundabatware está cumprimentado por soldados dos UN quando for querido pela corte internacional!

Se isto for feito, as coisas serão muito diferentes no Congo

Vad bör internationellt samfund göra för Kongofloden?
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Vad bör internationellt samfund göra?

Godan ifrågasätter, klara svar: lämna Kongofloden ensam said en blogger.

Hur?

- Internationellt samfund bör stoppa understödja diktatur i Kongofloden. Ingen mer Mobutus, ingen mer Kabilas. Låt den Lumumbas löneförhöjningen.

- Internationellt samfund bör stoppa att finansiera, och understödja Rwanda, Uganda och Sydafrika, som ger pengar, amunitions och vapen till rebellen, del. Nederländernan har precis stoppat att finansiera rwandan governement på grund av det.

- Internationellt samfund bör ta till rättvisa för krigsbrott alla VD av företagen som namnges på att exploatera olagligt Kongoflodenresurser, genom att överföra ungar till att bryta. Det är en stor fisk!

- Domstolen av La Haye bör bedöma alla folk ansvarig och namngett på att skapa skräck bland civilister i Kongofloden. De måste att bedömas för brott mot mänsklighet. Hur kommet, att Laurent Kundabatware greeteds av UN tjäna som soldat stunder, önskas han av landskampdomstolen!

Om detta göras, är den ska saker mycket olik i Kongofloden

Должно сообщество сделать для Конго?
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Должно сообществ сделать?

Хороший вопрос, ответы ясности: оставьте Конго одно сказанное одно blogger.

Как?

- Сообщество остановить поддержать диктатуру в Конго. No more Mobutus, no more Kabilas. Препятствуйте подъему Lumumbas.

- Сообщество остановить профинансировать и поддержать Руанду, Уганду и Южную Африку которая снабубегут деньг, amunitions и пушки rebel части. Нидерландыа как раз останавливали профинансировать rwandan governement из-за того.

- Сообщество принять к правосудию для военных преступления полностью CEO компаний названных на эксплуатировать противозаконно ресурсы Конго путем посылка малышей к минировать. То будет большой рыбой!

- Суд La Haye должен судить все людей ответственн и после того как он названо на создавать террор среди civilians в Конго. Они должны быть рассужены для преступление против человечества. How come то Laurent Kundabatware приветствовано воинами ООН пока он хочется международным судом!

Если это сделано, то вещи будут очень по-разному в Конго

Wat zou de Internationale Gemeenschap voor de Kongo moeten doen?
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Wat zou de internationale gemeenschap moeten doen?

Goede vraag, duidelijke antwoorden: het verlof de Kongo zei alleen één blogger.

Hoe?

- De internationale gemeenschap zou moeten ophouden steunend dictatuur in de Kongo. Niet meer Mobutus, Niet meer Kabilas. Laat de stijging Lumumbas.

- De internationale gemeenschap zou moeten ophouden financierend en steunend Rwanda, Oeganda en Zuid-Afrika dat geld, amunitions en kanonnen om verstrekken te rebelleren fracties. Nederland heeft net opgehouden financierend Rwandese governement wegens dat.

- De internationale gemeenschap zou aan rechtvaardigheid voor oorlogsmisdaden al CEO van firmanaam moeten nemen bij illegaal het exploiteren van de middelen van de Kongo door jonge geitjes naar mijnbouw te verzenden. Dat is een grote vis!

- Het Hof van La Haye zou alle mensen verantwoordelijk en genoemd moeten beoordelen bij het creëren van verschrikking onder burgers in de Kongo. Zij moeten voor misdaden tegen het mensdom worden beoordeeld. Hoe gekomen dat Laurent Kundabatware door de militairen wordt begroet van de V.N. terwijl hij door het Internationale Hof wordt gewild!

Als dit wordt gedaan, zullen de dingen in de Kongo zeer verschillend zijn

ماذا سوفت المجتمع الدولي أتمّت لكونغو?
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ماذا سوفت الالمجتمع الدولي أتمّت?

سؤال جيّدة, فسحة جوابات: تركت كونغو بانفراد يقول واحدة [بلوغّر].

كيف?

- المجتمع الدولي سوفت توقّفت يساند دكتاتوريّة في كونغو. [نو موش] [موبوتثس], [نو موش] [كبيلس]. تركت [لومومبس] إرتفاع.

- المجتمع الدولي سوفت توقّفت يموّل ويساند روندا, أوغندا وجنوب افريقيا الذي يكون يزوّد مال, [أمونيأيشنس] ومسدّس مدفع إلى كسر متمرّدة. يتوقّف هولندا يتلقّى فقط يموّل [غفرنمنت] روانديّ بسبب أنّ.

- المجتمع الدولي سوفت أخذت إلى عدل لجريمة حرب [ألّ ث] المدير التنفيذيّ من الشركات يعيّن في يستغلّ لاشرعيّا كونغو موردات ب يرسل جديات إلى يلغم. أنّ سمكة كبيرة!

- المحكمة اللا [ه] سوفت قضيت [ألّ ث] الناس مسؤولة ويعيّن في يخلق ذعر بين مدنيات في كونغو. هم يضطرّ كنت قضيت لجرائم ضدّ إنسانية. [هوو كم] أنّ [لورنت] [كوندبتور] يكون [غريتد] بمنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة جنديات بينما هو يكون أردت بالمحكمة دوليّة!

إن هذا يكون أتمّت, سيكون أشياء جدّا مختلفة في كونغو

1. DISTURBING CONTRASTS

It is surprising the impression one can have when he goes or travels around Africa for the first time. Cool people, nice places, plenty of natural resources, nice people always having a smile on their face and having good attitude. This impression raised suddenly a disturbing question in the mind of the visitor: why those nice people are not able to create, generate nice environment so that they can live in peace, harmony and prosperity? Especially, to this, you can add the religious devotion making of those africans a "race of saints"!

In 1991, when I visited Rwanda for the first time, I was litteraly pounded by the religious devotion and courteousy of its population. 3 years later, I learned that those I was revering were masterminds and key players of the genocide. How do I reconcile what I saw before 1994 with what has happened after April 1994 in Rwanda?

In Senegal, Wade has shown, from his young age to his old age, an exemple of consistency in his fight for alternative leadership. Finally, as an octogenarian he comes to power thanks to alternative leadership. His motto for his presidential campaign was "sopi": change, alternance. But once in power, he has not been able to offer an alternance to poverty, to war in the Casamance, to ...democratic alternance.

In the D R Congo, Mobutu was hued because of his institutional corruption. This was the reason for the need of liberation. But once the Kabila in power, massive lootings, institutionalized corruption and lack of positive leadership is the rule. The Lutundula Committee set up by the National Parliament was disdained by the looters who are still in control of the Kinshasa power.

The list can go on and on.
But the question remains: what is going wrong? Who is to blame? How is that those africans, some brilliants, politicians are not able to change the fate of their citizens? Why are they academically giants but unable to run the affairs of their countries? WHY AFRICA IS ALWAYS FAILING?

The answers evolved around Markets, national unity(divisions), national policies (leadership), International conspiracy(piracy). I hope to develop each of those points soon. Unless someone does it better than I.

Is Congo (DR) preparing himself for a very important event this year? Some people will say "yes". Congo is expected to hold what western newspapers and broadcasters are calling the very first democratic elections to resolve the legitimacy crisis since the coming of Mobutu in power in 1964! Congolese politics see in the forthcoming elections a way to end the long transition period started by Mobutu in 1990. However, the main opposition led by Tshisekedi has been left our of the elections boat!

Four major events or sequence of events have prepared the 2006 elections.

1. Sovereign National Conference of 1990.

April 24th 1990, Mobutu took the legal step of stopping monopartism in the country. This brought in freedom of expression and associations. Multipartism was introduced. With it, free expression and a certain political emulation came.

2. AFDL uprising and military success.

October 8th 1996, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and many other african countries supported by USA and Great Britain backed a military force against Mobutu's regime. This ended by the arriving of Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa as President. Even though, Congolese society was prepared for change, non- violent opposition led by Tshisekedi was not able to unscrew Mobutu's regime. Kabila's military coalition did it. That was a change.

3. Second Military War and uprising of dozen of military groups

August 2nd, 1998 saw a new bloody war ravaging Congo and particularly its civilians. Kabila's former allies wanted him out of power! They succeeded only by having him killed and by keeping the regime with the son, Joseph Kabila. Change of leader, no change for the civilians who will continue to die like flies (1400 every day says UN). Massive rapes, massacres, crimes against humanity, crimes of war will be predominant during this period.

4. Inter Congolese Dialogue or the Pretoria Agreement

Congolese military groups were called for peace talks in Lusaka(1999) and Pretoria(2002) were they reached an agreement. These talks included Rwanda, Burundi and Ouganda, inter alia, who surprisingly shaped its content. Power sharing was reached, political leaders left their local political HQs and took office in Kinshasa. While the Agreement made army reunification a key point for peace in the country, this point will be deliberately left out by the Transitional Government who has never solved the army lack of integration and salary pay. Corruption has widespread in the Transitional Government making the army corruption the edge of the iceberg.

5. Referendum and New Constitution

The Transitional Government had the credit of writing a new Constitution and proposing it to a National Referendum. Even though problems have surrounded the Constitutional Referendum and people's education about it, it has the credit of being a democratic exercice of rights. With the coming into law of the new Constitution, a new political era has come in the Congo, at least on papers!
The forthcoming elections are supposed to be the time for the population to choose leaders who will translate the constitution letter and spirit into reality.
The big challenges is to find fresh blood among the 32 Presidential Candidates who will run for presidency. Let it be said that all the candidates pay a registration fee of 50 000 dollars each! In a country where a civil servant gets 10 dollars salary a month, there is something ticklish.

I will tell you next time the challenges the new President and his government will face in my next blog or article (unfortunately, it is in french).

Today is Lumumba's death anniversary. And I have been searching for first hand material on Lumumba...till I found one precious today!
Lumumba wrote a book which was published only after his death. The publisher, in 1962, included his correspondence with Lumumba about the manuscrit.
I would like also to take this opportunity to salute Franziska Seel who was encouraging me to search more on Lumumba.
Here is poem writen by an Indonesian poet at the announcement of Lumumba's death:

The news came early in the morning.
Lumumba is dead
Lumumba is dead

Anger split the whole world asunder.
A worker shouts:
who can murder my age --
the rails of the trains
the length of the light of the sun
we are all Lumumba
Lumumba.

A peasant stamps his feet
the people never die --
the heart is in the paddy
growing along in struggle and song

Freedom that's Lumumba
Lumumba.

The news came early in the morning
Lumumba is dead
Lumumba is dead
the earth shook
the revolution marches on.

Long live Lumumba.

'Thousands' dying in DR Congo war

Congolese hope elections due this year will end their misery Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is killing 38,000 people each month, says the Lancet medical journal.
Most of the deaths are not caused by violence but by malnutrition and preventable diseases after the collapse of health services, the study said.

Since the war began in 1998, some 4m people have died, making it the world's most deadly war since 1945, it said.

A peace deal has ended most of the fighting but armed gangs continue to roam the east, killing and looting.

"Congo is the deadliest crisis anywhere in the world over the past 60 years," said Richard Brennan, health director of the New York-based International Rescue Committee and the study's lead author.

QUICK GUIDE

The war in DR Congo


"Ignorance about its scale and impact is almost universal and international engagement remains completely out of proportion to humanitarian need,"

Some 17,000 United Nations peacekeepers are in DR Congo, to restore peace and organise elections due by the end of June 2006.

Looting

Researchers visited nearly 20,000 households across the country over a three-month period in 2004, recording births and deaths over the previous 18 months.


DR Congo has the world's largest peacekeeping mission

They then compared their results with data from neighbouring countries and before the war began and are confident that their results are accurate.

Children were worst affected by the increased mortality rate, often from easily preventable and treatable diseases like malaria and diarrhoea, the study found.

In some parts, death rates were double the pre-war level, while the mortality rate in the city of Kisangani dropped by 80% after fighting there stopped in 2002.

At its height, at least seven foreign armies were involved in the war.

Many fighters - both foreign and Congolese - have been accused of looting DR Congo's vast natural mineral resources during the war.

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