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U.S. and Rwanda to blame for Congo’s human catastrophe

sfbayview.com — The corporate press is awash in cliché propaganda about "ethnic conflict," "Hutu," "Tutsi," and "the Rwandan Genocide" at the root of the Congo crisis, which is, most fundamentally, a U.S. and Rwanda-backed invasion of Congo, a.k.a., Congo-Kinshasa or the D.R.C.

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  • inactive, on 11/15/2008, -1/+7U.S. and Rwanda-backed invasion of Congo
  • vt007ken, on 12/07/2008, -0/+4I'm not intimately involved with all this, but Digg it for the sake of bringing this to the table for popular debate! There's a Facebook group for this: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48709330072
  • Skym32, on 11/16/2008, -0/+4What is weird about Hutu and Tutsi conflict is that if weren't for the Congolese generosity, shelter would have always been a problem to them! Where in the world do these people learned that you pay back death for life?! A shame for not helping during the Rwanda genocide, the US now supports blindly every evil thing the heartless Rwandan do to their neighbors!
  • anniegarrison, on 11/16/2008, -1/+4Skym: Thanks for responding to this. I'm about to record three minutes on Congo for a radio news broadcast and there's something I keep wanting to make sure I understand about this "Hutu and Tutsi" conflict. I've studied what's available online and this doesn't seem like anything I'd understand as an ethnic conflict, and even if it were, I understand the "Rwandan Genocide," horrific as it was for Africans, as a proxy war between the U.S-Britain, Anglophone allies, and France. A proxy war fought by Africans serving imperial interest.

    Hutu and Tutsi seem, so far as I can tell from here, like European racializations of a pre-existing class structure, racializations devised to create a local elite, the Tutsi, to manage imperial interests. I could tell you what else I seem to have picked up by reading from a distance, but that's really all that seems important right now. Does that sound right to you? I'm counting on those of you who joined my Facebook group to help me from making huge blunders about this sort of thing. What I understand best here is mining, the industrial use of minerals, imperial motive, and imperial competition.

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