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Category: Missionaries
... you can look at the smiling face of an African Child bursting with happiness, and think, "well ... he's happy" and not understand this is kid will die of malaria next month because you needed a new cell phone. Or because he lives near a Christian mission with a medical facility but is not a Christian ...
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Category: Rape
-Activists concerned by this year's escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting--directly or indirectly--from illicit mineral extractions. "Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry," John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told U.S. senators at...
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Category: feminism
Please read the following vignette of an actual incident. I am a scientist observing the culture of the Namoyoma people. I am sitting in a shady spot just outside the village, writing up some notes, and I observe a disturbing event. Four men are trying...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:00 AM • 120 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
This is the final Congo Memoir. The penultimate installment is here. The final installment is below the fold .......
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:36 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
...continued... I was just stepping out of the store, where I had purchased a piece of cloth to bring back to the US, when I heard the awful sound....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:53 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
Clearly, the naval officer's goal was to take my boat and motor. He essentially said this to me. "It is the job of the navy to confiscate any boat that my be faster or more powerful than the Navy's boat." "Where's your, boat?" "I don't...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:54 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
As I raised my hand in defiance of the soldiers, I knew for certain that he was never going to give the order to fire. If his intention was to kill me, he would order his men to stand down and simply shoot me with his pistol. But even that was a virtual impossibility. The paperwork that would need to be filled out prohibited that particular decision.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo Memoirs
The Congo Memoirs continue. The last episode was Return Of The Green Pickup. The next episode is below the fold .......
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo War
One of Rwanda's most famous singers, Simon Bikindi, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for inciting violence during the 1994 genocide. His conviction stems from a speech he made from a vehicle equipped with a public address system encouraging ethnic Hutus to kill...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:45 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Congo War
All sides in eastern DR Congo have committed serious human rights abuses, the UN secretary general has said. Ban Ki-moon said both government forces and rebels loyal to Gen Laurent Nkunda had carried out arbitrary executions, mass killings, rape and torture. The report covers July...
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