Thread: Media still ignores the massacres in the Congo & Ruwanda
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Old 08-23-2007, 05:33 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady View Post
Remember the line from "Sahara"?

"This is Africa. Nobody cares about Africa".

It's sad, but true. Our news media would rather talk about the latest exploits of Paris Hilton or Anna Nicole Smith then how people are dying around the world.

And you know why? It's because people watch it. If people didn't watch it, then they wouldn't do it.

Just like the National Enquirer. If ignorant people wouldn't buy that trash they would go out of business.
Not a big movie buff but I do have a faint memory of that line.

The media reports the body counts in other nations. Selective reporting I think more because these people do not have a voice that will stand for them and show what is happening in these faint little out of the way villages.

These areas are not lacking wealth gaining resources. The fact is the riches of these remote areas are being sought after by unscrupulous corporate raiders.
The Democratic Republic of Congo - Global Issues

Regardless of people who wish to destroy churches throughout the world truth is these are the ones taking care of many of the people displaced by continued wars over the land there.

Reported by Rueters, June 25, 2007

Even though the Democratic Republic of Congo has held its first open elections in 40 years, violence by militias and foreign troops near DRC's borders threatens millions of refugees who have endured decades of conflict. United Nations figures indicate 3.5 million people have been displaced by DRC's decades of war, even though the country is home to the U.N.'s largest peacekeeping force.... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/from...8295485444.htm

The peacekeeping forces are not allowed to actually keep peace! They are there to protect the money interest in these nations. We are already paying for the support of Peacekeeping. I think they should be allowed to actually keep the peace and stop these murders from continueing.