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Posts Tagged with "Katanga Province"

Congolese victims file class action against Canadian mining company

November 13, 2010

The suit alleges that Anvil provided trucks and drivers that transported soldiers and the civilians they massacred outside the town of Kilwa. Also, Anvil planes enabled the army to reach Kilwa at top speed.

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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All-out war, the deadliest war on the planet, in Congo

November 28, 2008

The war in Congo is a U.S. proxy war; the U.S. uses Kagame, the Rwandan army and terrorist Gen. Laurent Nkunda as their African proxy force in Congo, but this is war. It has been the deadliest, though barely reported, war on the planet for years.

Congolese children work, fight and die for our cell phones and diamonds

October 24, 2008

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the green heart of Africa. The country has the second largest rainforest in the world. It is resource rich but plagued with humanitarian crises resulting from the plundering of the DRC’s mineral resources are severe.

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