Added: Friday, 12 December 2008, 11:57 AM Mecca time, 08:57 AM GMT
DRC crisis has lasted more than 12 years and more than 5 million people have been killed by guns, diseases, and conflict related. I think it is time for the international community to help DRC to establish punishment to all rebels who are responsible for various crimes. Nkunda is the first among them. Otherwise people will continue to become rebels because they know that killing, raping and fighting is the best way to get on power in DRC. How many peace agreements will be signed? And they are not respected. The DRC government need to be strong enough and show a high diplomacy and have the international community convinced to open a dialogue among Rwandese Hutu and Tutsi for sustaining peace in central Africa.
Maky, Bunagana, Zaire (former)
Added: Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 08:08 AM Mecca time, 05:08 AM GMT
Adenali: I agree that nations encouraging proxy war should be cited, but those nations that would be called upon to hold African leaders to account are themselves involved in these proxy wars, who makes the weapons that Africans are buying by the 10's of thousands to use against each other? Is there a factory in Darfur making rocket propelled grenades? Probably not. Belgium for example the former colonizer of Congo, is one of the world's leading small arm manufacturers. Looking to China, the EU, or the U.S to cite African nations when they depend on African division is non-beneficial. That doesn't mean that Africans should not look to third parties for mediation, but they have to be nations that stand nothing to lose nor gain, but are genuine in their concern for Darfur, for example, but I don't think that French President Sarkozy is concerned about Darfur when he remarked that Blacks are scum in France.
tALLAHhassee Florida, Detroit, United States
Added: Monday, 08 December 2008, 10:50 PM Mecca time, 07:50 PM GMT
War, in the DR Congo, who's fightin who in the DR Congo? and why's the north eastern part of Kivu region the starting point of every war that erupts in that country? to the talks, why's the colonel asking for it? and why did he for the first time start the war? I'm really in support of any talks that can end the war in that country, but, who can make sure that there will not be more colonels and renegade troops like Nkunde?
dhagacade2, Baidoa, Somalia
Added: Sunday, 07 December 2008, 07:53 PM Mecca time, 04:53 PM GMT
Tallahasseeeee: International convention against proxy war sponsorship is required to prevent nations from waging indirect war in other countries for narrow political or economic interests. World leaders may need to introduce a compact against proxy war so that countries that use proxy war against other countries could be sanctioned, or prosecuted. We all know that ongoing violent conflicts and humanitarian sufferings and political complex situations in Somalia, Congo, Darfur have all started off as proxy wars...proxy wars sponsoring countries may need to be at least named and shamed...this awfull practice is covered in the name of intelligence work or services and is a deadly legal vacuum in international relations.
adenali, Nyala, South Darfur , Sudan
Added: Friday, 05 December 2008, 09:24 AM Mecca time, 06:24 AM GMT
Adenali: what would you propose with regards to the US sponsoring the Israelis, and their genocide against the Palestinians? Afterall Europe's hands have been in the politics of the world for centuries, and these are the ones that would be called on to place sanctions. In my opinion I don't think that it's probable for people who have a history of hypocracy to be just, if a solution is to come to Africa it will come from African people as Europe in particular has stood to gain by African division. A united Africa would be independent of Europe, as Africa has everything it needs. Africa would produce its own currency, and has all the resources to secure infrastructure. This is why it's so important for Europe to maintain a map of tiny states, and where there are big countries they encourage internal division (i.e Sudan, and Congo). What would historical African leaders look like asking Europe for help (Shaka, Mansa, Akhnaten, Askia, Candace, Nzinga, etc.)
tALLAHhassee Florida, Detroit, United States
Added: Thursday, 04 December 2008, 01:47 AM Mecca time, 10:47 PM GMT
Is the UN doing enough in DR Congo and has it learned from its failures in neighbouring Rwanda? No the UN doesn't care, they get off on the smoke and death. Like the Zionist Zombies and the Neo-Con [profanity removed]. The UN, like many of it's enthusiastic, narrow minded, skewed supporters like counting corpses but not much else. Peace, even if you think the UN is worth more than the stuff you clear from your throat in the morning.
Sherpa, montreal, Canada
Added: Wednesday, 03 December 2008, 11:23 PM Mecca time, 08:23 PM GMT
Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and all other countries that are experiencing conflict have all one thing in common: proxy war effect...which includes but not limited to another country or countries sponsoring the violence, which often makes it difficult to negotiate reconciliation. World policy makers in the United Nations forum should come up with some form of punishment for countries manipulating the rebels of a neihbouring or another country to use them as proxy. I am not a legal expert, but I care very much the initernational peace and security and global harmony for development... and would propose a gloabl compact against proxy wars, which introduces sanctions against countries utilizing proxy war policies, i.e. manipulating other countries weaknesses with the intention of bringing them down for whatever reason. Thanks
adenali, Nyala, South Darfur , Sudan
Added: Tuesday, 02 December 2008, 09:04 PM Mecca time, 06:04 PM GMT
Congo needs adminisration that isn't structured on the business model such as the Western society, it is losing, the Government should change its course since it is a losing course, as well as the rebel movement, there is no indication that the future will be any differant than the past unless these two waring parties reconstitute their goals, and think outside of the box of colonial tradition. Congo is a bleeding country, and those who were charged with healing it have failed. I hope the Congolese President and the Rebels agree that both sides have made mistakes, and first and foremost stop the torture of prisoners, exclude women and children from abuse, as well as the theatre of war. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was the best commander; he took Makkah without bloodshed, and his lieutenant Umar took Jerusalem without bloodshed. The crusaders, however, stained Jerusalem, and elsewhere with blood, and that is the colonial model set for Congo, so who do we follow?
tALLAHhassee Florida, Detroit, United States
Added: Thursday, 27 November 2008, 02:30 AM Mecca time, 11:30 PM GMT
DR Congo is a product of border demarcation by colonial powers and was run by those powers with a degree of success by governing over tribal divisions. The tribes were not armed to the extent they are now. On independence there was no "party" structure cross tribal divisions, with the result that democracy was weak from the start. Once guns were available to different tribes and no overall clearly "national" armed force was in place, it began to disintegrate. I don't feel that tribal divisions can work - co-operation is needed today. There are simply too many people!
nedrauk, Manchester, Great Britain (UK)
Added: Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 08:25 AM Mecca time, 05:25 AM GMT
I think what makes the difference (in congo not as much in rwanda) is not about hutus or tutsis, it is only the way how the problem and aggression is expressed. The underlying problem is resources, wealth. to grab the resources rulers have to apply tools of propaganda, the easiest of which in any less developed ..or more developed society is xenophobia, the phenomenon is not more or less primitive than in a technologically more developed society. Not any more tribal. It's the same.
