"Remember that the "humanitarian AID" sector is big business, and refugees are nothing more than a market created to be exploited. "
Recent events in Congo have led to a recent wave of Western media propaganda decrying a "sudden outbreak of war" there.
Linked below you will find something fresh, original and honest by a Canadian journalist who traveled to eastern Congo and reported this story from the war zone.
People who know my work have sent me stories by, for example, Johann Hari of the U.K. newspaper, The Independent, stories that claim to tell you what is going on but in fact reveal nothing new at all.
Other examples of selling out the people of Congo to publish a story in a popular (propaganda) venue include the work of Daniel Pepper (Time), Jeffrey Gettleman (NYT), Stephanie McCrummen (Washington Post), and Marcus Bleasdale (Harper's, National Geographic).
With these venues, always it is the black Africans that are blamed for their own suffering in Africa. Meanwhile, the white reporter is billed as the hero and the white mining and weapons and aviation and petroleum and mercenary executives are protected. Even supposedly "progressive" venues have reprinted the recent propaganda (e.g. Johann Hari).
Remember that the "humanitarian AID" sector is big business, and refugees are nothing more than a market created to be exploited.
For those who don't understand the difference of truth versus propaganda, this newly published article by Canadian journalist Roxanne Stassyzn (link below) is a piece of solid investigative journalism that no media venue (right, left, center) would publish -- until now.
Please read this story and take note of what good, hard news reporting (based in honesty and truth) looks like. If you would like to help the people of Congo contact Friends of the Congo in Washington DC, and feel free to support my efforts. If you have questions about your favorite charity---please email ask: most are part of the problem as this journalist makes clear.
For those who wonder about Mr. Africa, soon to be in the White House, he has previously accepted campaign funds from one of the world's premier blood diamond kingpins responsible for massive bloodletting and extortion in Congo: Maurice Tempelsman.
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keith harmon snow
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A World Playground: Congolese People Sacrificed for International Games and Profits
by Roxanne Stasyszyn / November 8th, 2008
Humanitarian aid in the eastern Congo provinces is an octopus whose tentacles reach far and wide. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) serves to "mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors." OCHA coordinates 126 organizations, including 10 United Nations agencies and 50 international NGOs, and scores of donor, state and national NGOs. OCHA also works with Congolese governmental officials and donors.
Even with all of this AID infrastructure, poverty, malnutrition and human rights abuses run rampant―not to mention the permanent state of war and millions of internally displaced people, half of which are in North Kivu.
By mid-October 2007, some 500,000 to 1.2 million people were internally displaced in Eastern Congo; with 33,000 newly displaced Congolese people fleeing North Kivu on October 25. Ugandan military had forcibly occupied parts of Orientale Province, while a militia was fighting FARDC troops in North Kivu. On October 25 last year, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement of "deep concern" citing "surging sexual violence and a hike in the number of civilians uprooted due to fighting."
One year and hundreds of thousands of dead people later―things have only gotten worse.
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