Trouble in The DR Congo

Caoimhín

You see.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7702099.stm

These fuzzy wussy fellows simply cant rule themselves.

Whats needed here is a white man with a smart hat and a cane to get them into shape.

Discuss....

WindSock

Who's Dr Congo? Is he/she as funky as Dr beat?

AlmightyCushion

Caoimhín wrote: »

Discuss....

I assume you mean the article and not whether the white man has to take over or not.

The article for anyone too lazy to click.

The UN says it has credible reports that camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed.

Reports suggest the camps were forcibly emptied and looted before being burned, the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said.

Aid groups say they are struggling to reach an estimated 250,000 people in the region fleeing fierce fighting between government and rebel forces.

Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to end the crisis.

A ceasefire is holding in and around Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, but aid agency chiefs say the situation remains highly volatile.

Food and water are terribly scarce, and aid agencies have all but stopped work, says the BBC's Peter Greste in Goma.

Rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda's forces are positioned some 15km (nine miles) from the city.

The origin of the ongoing conflict in eastern DR Congo is the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

Gen Nkunda says he is fighting to protect his Tutsi community from attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels, some of whom are accused of taking part in the genocide.

The Congolese government has often promised to stop Hutu forces from using its territory, but has not done so.

There have also been accusations of collusion between DR Congo's army and Hutu guerrillas.

The Congolese government, for its part, has accused Rwanda of backing Gen Nkunda.

Rwanda denies this, but it has twice invaded its much larger neighbour in recent years.

'Extremely unsafe'

The UNHCR said it was very concerned at reports that the camps in Rutshuru, 90km (56 miles) north of Goma, had been destroyed.

"There are some 50,000 people who were in those camps. We don't know where they would be, we're afraid that they may have just dispersed off into the bush," spokesman Ron Redmond said.

Meanwhile, shortages of food and water in Goma are leading thousands of people who sought refuge there to leave, heading to the village of Kibati, about 12km (7 miles) to the north.

Our correspondent in Goma says the road from the city is choked with human misery.

For mile after mile, it is full of families bent forward with their lives on their backs: stoves, food, clothes, bedding and children.

"The whole population in Goma, and around Goma are feeling extremely unsafe," Red Cross spokesman Marcal Izard told the BBC.

A Congolese aid worker based in Goma, Godefroid Marhenge, told the BBC that some displaced people were "in desperate need of humanitarian assistance".

Gen Nkunda said on Thursday that he was opening a "humanitarian corridor" for people to return to their homes.

Our correspondent said that instead of an open corridor, he found people hurrying back to Goma.

"Someone has been shooting at us," one breathless woman said. "We can't go any further."

But those who did reach Kibati told the BBC that they had more chance of getting food in the forests and bushes around the village than inside Goma.

Aid workers have begun to distribute water to the new arrivals.

Overstretched peacekeepers

Gen Nkunda has threatened to take Goma unless UN peacekeepers guarantee the ceasefire and security there.

The UN has more than 17,000 peacekeeping troops in DR Congo - the largest UN force in the world - but correspondents say it is struggling to cope with the crisis.

Looting, killings and rapes were reported in the city on Thursday, much of it blamed on retreating Congolese troops.

Meanwhile, intense diplomatic efforts are going on in a bid to maintain the ceasefire:

• The parliament in DR Congo has called on the government to negotiate with Gen Nkunda, although President Joseph Kabila has previously refused to do so

• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "deeply concerned" about the situation

• EU diplomats meeting in Brussels failed to agree on whether to send troops to back up UN peacekeepers. French FM Bernard Kouchner and his British counterpart, David Miliband, are preparing to travel to the country

• An African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council is to hold crisis talks at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa

Caoimhín

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I assume you mean the article and not whether the white man has to take over or not.

Nope, meant that since the white man left there has been nothing but trouble.

A jolly good beating is what some of these fellows need.

Dave!

Caoimhín wrote: »

These fuzzy wussy fellows simply cant rule themselves.

Whats needed here is a white man with a smart hat and a cane to get them into shape.

Discuss....

I think you summed it up nicely my dear

shenanigans1982

They need the Russians to step in and take over...or are they still busy in Georgia?...that just kinda disappeared.

tallaght01

Caoimhín wrote: »

Nope, meant that since the white man left there has been nothing but trouble.

A jolly good beating is what some of these fellows need.

The white man has been there for ages, via the useless UN peacekepers.

But, under the watchful eye of the superior white man, 20 thousand congolese civilians have been displaced, raped, robbed, tortured and killed over the last 2 months

Caoimhín

tallaght01 wrote: »

20 thousand

Meh, whats 20 thousand fuzzy wossies worth in the Queens Sterling?

A strong hand I tells ya.

tallaght01

Caoimhín wrote: »

Meh, whats 20 thousand fuzzy wossies worth in the Queens Sterling?

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Ahhhh, so now you wanna talk about the role of the slave thread in the origin of the problem .......

.....I have to warn u, it won't do your argument any good :P

Caoimhín

tallaght01 wrote: »

Ahhhh, so now you wanna talk about the role of the slave thread in the origin of the problem

I believe the END of the slave trade was the problem.

Conor108

WHERE IS THE DIAMOND!?!

Ass

I tend not to give a shit about Africa any more. Africa is the one place where you can insert a perfectly civilized society, and with in hours it will have deteriorated into AIDS, war and dust.

jaykay74

Have they run out of Um Bongo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMn9mxHAilk

MagicMarker

That film Congo..twas cool!

dr.bollocko

This is one piss poor nasty ass thread right here guys I have to say.

MagicMarker

dr.bollocko wrote: »

This is one piss poor nasty ass thread right here guys I have to say.

Welcome to After Hours.

dr.bollocko

MagicMarker wrote: »

Welcome to After Hours.

Eminem you been on a while here too, and I think we have both have learned one thing and that is to not disrespect After Hours. It is what it is. This is in no way a representation of after hours. This is just bad taste dumbass psuedo-racism for the sake of it.

Caoimhín

dr.bollocko wrote: »

This is one piss poor nasty ass thread right here guys I have to say.

You know, after giving it some thought, you are right. It is indeed in the wrong forum, i should not have placed it in after hours.

Maybe one of the Mods could move it to the other lol place?

Karoma

Caoimhín wrote: »

Maybe one of the Mods could move it to the other lol place?

It would not necessarily be welcome there either.
Locked by another moderator. Have an infraction for your efforts.