Somalia Africa's world war II.....Congo revisited

[General Duke]

Congo Civil War

 

congo war.

 

The war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC - formerly called Zaire under President Mobutu Sese Seko) is the widest interstate war in modern African history. The DRC has become an environment in which numerous foreign players have become involved, some within the immediate sub-region, and some from much further afield. That only serves to complicate the situation and to make peaceful resolution of the conflict that much more complex. The war, centered mainly in eastern Congo, has involved nine African nations and directly affected the lives of 50 million Congolese.

 

The International Rescue Committee says that between August 1998 and April 2004 (when the bulk of the fighting occurred) 3.8 million people died in the DRC. Most of these deaths were due to starvation or disease that resulted from the war, not from actual fighting. Millions more have become internally displaced or have sought asylum in neighboring countries.

 

The Congolese people are made up of around 200 separate ethnic groups. These ethnic groups generally are concentrated regionally and speak distinct languages. There is no majority ethnic group - some of the largest ethnic groups are the Luba, Kongo and Anamongo. The various ethnic groups speak many different languages but only four indigenous languages have official status - Kiswahili, Lingala, Kikongo and Tshiluba. French is the language of government, commerce and education. Societal discrimination on the basis of ethnicity is widely practiced by members of virtually all ethnic groups and is evident in private hiring and buying patterns and in patterns of de facto ethnic segregation in some cities. In large cities, however, intermarriage across ethnic and regional divides is common.

 

By 1996, the war and genocide in neighboring Rwanda had spilled over to the DRC (then Zaire). Rwandan Hutu militia forces (Interahamwe) who fled Rwanda following the ascension of a Tutsi-led government were using Hutu refugee camps in eastern DRC as bases for incursions against Rwanda.

 

In October 1996, Rwandan troops (RPA) entered the DRC with an armed coalition led by Laurent-Desire Kabila known as the Alliance des Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Congo-Zaire (AFDL). With the goal of forcibly ousting Mobutu, the AFDL, supported by Rwanda and Uganda, began a military campaign toward Kinshasa. Following failed peace talks between Mobutu and Kabila in May 1997, Mobutu left the country, and Kabila marched into Kinshasa on May 17, 1997. Kabila declared himself president, consolidated power around himself and the AFDL, and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). RPA units continued to operate with the DRC’s military, which was renamed the Forces Armees Congolaises (FAC).

 

Congolese Tutsis as well as the Governments of Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, all relied on the Rwandan military presence in DRC for protection against hostile armed groups operating from the eastern part of the country. These groups included:

 

The Interahamwe militia of ethnic Hutus, mostly from Rwanda, which fought the Tutsi-dominated Government of Rwanda

Hutu members of the former Rwandan Armed Forces, believed to be responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, which also fought the Government of Rwanda

The Mai Mai, a loose association of traditional Congolese local defense forces, which fought the influx of Rwandan immigrants

The Alliance of Democratic Forces (ADF), made of up Ugandan expatriates and supported by the Government of Sudan, which fought the Government of Uganda

Several groups of Hutus from Burundi fighting the Tutsi-dominated Government of Burundi

 

more..... congo war.

[raadamiir]

MAN SOMALIA NEEDS WAR SPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH WHERE THE MORYAAN COURTS HANG OUT. SHEIK ABDIALLAHI NEEDS TO MARCH I AM SICK OF THIS DAMN THING. WE NEED ANOTHER PRESIDENT THE SHEIK NEEDS TO STEP ASIDE AND LET SOME OF THE YOUNGER WADAADO TAKE THE LED SO THEY CLEAN THE STREETS OF MUDQUSHIO AND BRING BACK TO LIFE.

 

I CALL FOR SHEIK ABDIALLAHI TO STEP DOWN AS HEADSTATE. FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS

 

1 BASED UPON MAJORITY OF THE POPULATIONS THOUGHT WE NEED ACTION AND HE IS NOT PROVIDING THAT NONE WHAT SO EVER.

2. WE NEED A DICTOR JUST FOR NOW BECUASE BEING A SOMALI NATIONLIST DOESN'T GET HIM ****

3. THE MORYAAN COURTS THE KANGAROO COURTS THE USC WHAT EVER THEY ARE CALLED UNDERSTAND ONE THING AN A** WIPING AND BY GOD HE HAS NOT DONE THAT

 

I VOTE FOR THE GUY TO STEP DOWN IF DO NOT SEE ANY ACTION IN THE MONTH NOVEMBER

I DON'T MEAN A LITTE ONE.

 

BUT UNTEL THAN LONG LIVE SHEIK ABDIALLAHI YUSUF

AND MAY HE WIN THE JIHAD AGAINST THE MORYAAN.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Stop trolling and flooding the section with same repetitive posts.

 

And use lowercase letters next time.