The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest Sub-Saharan
country in Africa, located in
the central region of the continent and stretches to the
west near Angola and to the east near
Tanzania. Joseph Kasa-Vubu was the first president of the
country from 1960 to 1965. After
Kasa-Vubu the country only witness three additional
presidents, Mobutu Sese Seko, who ran
the country since 1965 for 32 years. Laurent-Désiré Kabila
took office in 1997, Kabila was
assassinated in 2001, and his son took over there after and
he is the current president.
While the whole world is concern about the conflict in the
gun control debates, the debt ceiling
debate and the crisis in the Middle East; they still ignoring The Democratic Republic(DR) of
Congo.
“The wars in the Congo have claimed nearly the same number of lives
as having a 9/11 every
single day for 360 days, the genocide that struck Rwanda in
1994, the ethnic cleansing that
overwhelmed Bosnia in the mid-1990s, the genocide that took
place in Darfur, the number of
people killed in the great tsunami that struck Asia in 2004,
and the number of people who died in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- all combined and then doubled.”-
CNN Stat.
Many believe that the only way to end the conflict in this
region is for the western countries to
stop buying materials from the country. The
political/economic concerns for the citizens have
caused them to pick up guns and kill each other.
No comments:
Post a Comment