Something I heard today and worth repeating: How is it that the media have been unfurling all the banners they have available to commemorate the tragedy of 9/11--which was a tragic loss of more than 3,000 lives though not for the reasons the media have largely been giving--and yet, and yet, 6 million people have been assassinated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last 10 years, a number approaching that of the holocaust, and hardly a line has been devoted to that. And let it be said clearly: the United States government, knowingly, was responsible for setting up the conditions under which that genocide took place.
Three years ago I sat in an assembly of the representatives of almost every nation on earth at the United Nations and heard a young woman tell the assembly that more than 600 women were being systematically raped in that war every month. What has been done? The Secretary General of the United Nations named Prime Minister Steven Harper to a special UN committee to look into violence against women and children! This is the same government that is subsidizing Canadian companies that are making a fortune pillaging the Congo for its coltan and gold.
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