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Belgian paratroopers to crush rising Congo rebellion?
December 13, 2009
With the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) engulfed in bloodshed and terrorism due to the secretive occupation and expansion by the Rwandan regime of Paul Kagame, Congo’s President Joseph Kabila has reportedly requested an immediate emergency military intervention from Belgium to crush a growing rebellion sparked by resistance forces in the far Western Congo.
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Filed Under: Africa and the World
Tags: African Holding Company of America • AFRICOM Air Forces AFRICA (U.S. 17th Air Force) • AFRICOM “lily pad” operating agreements • Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) • Ange-Félix Patassé • Angolan Special Forces • Angolan UNITA rebels • Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) • Belgian Armed Forces (BAF) • Belgian arms trafficker Philippe de Moerloose • Belgian colonial rule • Belgian paratroopers • Belgium's Defense Minister Pieter De Crem • Belgium’s Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere • Bemba Saolona • Brig. Gen. Mike Callan • CARE International • Center for American Progress • Central Africa Republic (C.A.R.) • cobalt mines • Col. Floribert Bofate Lihamba • Col. Nyav • Col. Tshatshi Military Camp in Kinshasa • Commonwealth of Nations • conflict minerals • Congo rebellion • Congo River • Congo-Brazzaville • Congo-Brazzaville President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso • Congo-Kinshasa • Congo-Kinshasa President Hypolitté Kanambe • Congo-Zaire • Congolese cassiterite (tin) • copper mines • coup d’etat • Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) • depopulation • destabilization • diamond kingpin Maurice Templesman • diamond mines • Dongo • Dongo rebellion • DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexis Tambwe Mwamba • Edwin Raes • elections rigging • Elwyn Blattner Group • Enough! • Equateur Province • Eric Elliot • ethnic conflict • Eve Ensler • ex-Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) • extortion • Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) • Francois Bozizé • Gabon’s Gen. Ali Bongo • Gen. Benjamin Alongaboni • Gen. Bosco Ntaganda • Gen. Laurent Nkunda • genocide • genocide investigator • Guard Républicaine (GR) • Hewa Bora Airlines • High Court Judge Andreu Merelles • Honoré Ngbanda • Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana • Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation • indigenous Twa people • International Arms Embargo on the DRC • International Criminal Court • International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) • International Crisis Group • James Kabarebe • Janet Kabila • Jean-Pierre Bemba • Jeffrey Gentleman • Jeffrey Gettleman • Joe Bavier • Johan Peleman • John Numbi • Joseph Mobutu • Katanga Province • Keith Harmon Snow • King Leopold • Laurent Nkunda • Lt. Col. Richard Sauta • Mai Mai • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) • Melchior Ndadaye • MONUC Public Information Officer Madnodje Mounoubai • Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) • National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) • National Intelligence Agency (ANR) • National Intelligence and Protection Service (Service National d’Intelligence et de Protection) (SNIP) • November 2009 U.N. Panel of Experts Report on Illegal Exploitation in the Congo • Olivier Kamitatu • Omar Bongo • open occupations • Oubangi River • Patrice Lumumba • Paul Kagame • Police Nationale Congolaise • predatory Western capitalism • President Cyprien Ntaryamira • President Eduardo Dos Santos • President Joseph Kabila • President Kabila’s Presidential Guard Républicaine (GR) • President Laurent Desiré Kabila • President Sassou-Nguesso • Presidential Guards • Project Censored award winner • racketeering • rainforest • Raise Hope for Congo • RDF-MONUC-FARDC forces • Rene Isekemanga Nkeka • Resistance Patriots of Dongo • Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) • Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) • Rwandan Tutsi troops • Sandrine Nguesso • SDE • secret infiltrations of Rwandan forces • Security Police Chief Gen. Kpama Baramoto • slavery in Congo • Sodexmines • Special Forces Cmdr. Gen. Ngabale Nzimbi • Special Presidential Division (DSP) • Special Presidential Security Group (GSSP) • Stewart M. Powell • street children • Tae Kwan Do • Tutsi extremist forces • U.N. Blue Helmets • U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • U.N. Panel of Experts • U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) • U.S. Embassy-affiliated American School in Kinshasa (TASOK) • Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) • uranium mines • USAID • Vital Kamhere • Walter Kansteiner • Wayne Madsen • Western mercenaries • Wilf Mbanga • World Wildlife Fund (WWF) • Yaa-Lengi Ngemi • Yoweri Museveni • Zairean Defense Minister Admiral Mudima • Zimbabwe Defense Forces • “Kimia I” and “Kimia II” operations • “peacekeeping” operations • “tribal dispute” • “Umoja Wetu”
Filed Under: Africa and the World
Tags: African Holding Company of America • AFRICOM Air Forces AFRICA (U.S. 17th Air Force) • AFRICOM “lily pad” operating agreements • Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) • Ange-Félix Patassé • Angolan Special Forces • Angolan UNITA rebels • Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) • Belgian Armed Forces (BAF) • Belgian arms trafficker Philippe de Moerloose • Belgian colonial rule • Belgian paratroopers • Belgium's Defense Minister Pieter De Crem • Belgium’s Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere • Bemba Saolona • Brig. Gen. Mike Callan • CARE International • Center for American Progress • Central Africa Republic (C.A.R.) • cobalt mines • Col. Floribert Bofate Lihamba • Col. Nyav • Col. Tshatshi Military Camp in Kinshasa • Commonwealth of Nations • conflict minerals • Congo rebellion • Congo River • Congo-Brazzaville • Congo-Brazzaville President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso • Congo-Kinshasa • Congo-Kinshasa President Hypolitté Kanambe • Congo-Zaire • Congolese cassiterite (tin) • copper mines • coup d’etat • Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) • depopulation • destabilization • diamond kingpin Maurice Templesman • diamond mines • Dongo • Dongo rebellion • DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexis Tambwe Mwamba • Edwin Raes • elections rigging • Elwyn Blattner Group • Enough! • Equateur Province • Eric Elliot • ethnic conflict • Eve Ensler • ex-Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) • extortion • Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) • Francois Bozizé • Gabon’s Gen. Ali Bongo • Gen. Benjamin Alongaboni • Gen. Bosco Ntaganda • Gen. Laurent Nkunda • genocide • genocide investigator • Guard Républicaine (GR) • Hewa Bora Airlines • High Court Judge Andreu Merelles • Honoré Ngbanda • Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana • Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation • indigenous Twa people • International Arms Embargo on the DRC • International Criminal Court • International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) • International Crisis Group • James Kabarebe • Janet Kabila • Jean-Pierre Bemba • Jeffrey Gentleman • Jeffrey Gettleman • Joe Bavier • Johan Peleman • John Numbi • Joseph Mobutu • Katanga Province • Keith Harmon Snow • King Leopold • Laurent Nkunda • Lt. Col. Richard Sauta • Mai Mai • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) • Melchior Ndadaye • MONUC Public Information Officer Madnodje Mounoubai • Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) • National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) • National Intelligence Agency (ANR) • National Intelligence and Protection Service (Service National d’Intelligence et de Protection) (SNIP) • November 2009 U.N. Panel of Experts Report on Illegal Exploitation in the Congo • Olivier Kamitatu • Omar Bongo • open occupations • Oubangi River • Patrice Lumumba • Paul Kagame • Police Nationale Congolaise • predatory Western capitalism • President Cyprien Ntaryamira • President Eduardo Dos Santos • President Joseph Kabila • President Kabila’s Presidential Guard Républicaine (GR) • President Laurent Desiré Kabila • President Sassou-Nguesso • Presidential Guards • Project Censored award winner • racketeering • rainforest • Raise Hope for Congo • RDF-MONUC-FARDC forces • Rene Isekemanga Nkeka • Resistance Patriots of Dongo • Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) • Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) • Rwandan Tutsi troops • Sandrine Nguesso • SDE • secret infiltrations of Rwandan forces • Security Police Chief Gen. Kpama Baramoto • slavery in Congo • Sodexmines • Special Forces Cmdr. Gen. Ngabale Nzimbi • Special Presidential Division (DSP) • Special Presidential Security Group (GSSP) • Stewart M. Powell • street children • Tae Kwan Do • Tutsi extremist forces • U.N. Blue Helmets • U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • U.N. Panel of Experts • U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) • U.S. Embassy-affiliated American School in Kinshasa (TASOK) • Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) • uranium mines • USAID • Vital Kamhere • Walter Kansteiner • Wayne Madsen • Western mercenaries • Wilf Mbanga • World Wildlife Fund (WWF) • Yaa-Lengi Ngemi • Yoweri Museveni • Zairean Defense Minister Admiral Mudima • Zimbabwe Defense Forces • “Kimia I” and “Kimia II” operations • “peacekeeping” operations • “tribal dispute” • “Umoja Wetu”
The imperial Congo crisis
January 8, 2009
The corporate press, and the U.S. State Department, are awash in propaganda about the Congo War, also known as the Congo crisis, or, the African holocaust, in which 6 million Congolese have died since 1997. They typically characterize it as… Read the rest »
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Filed Under: Videos
Tags: Africa and the World • Ann Garrison • Anthony Fest • Congo • ethnic conflict • imperialism • KFCF • KPFA • KPFB • Laurent Nkunda • Obasanjo • resource war
Filed Under: Videos
Tags: Africa and the World • Ann Garrison • Anthony Fest • Congo • ethnic conflict • imperialism • KFCF • KPFA • KPFB • Laurent Nkunda • Obasanjo • resource war
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