1.5 million have been displaced and countless thousands are dead. Are these just figures or are they a call to action? The Congo currently hosts the largest deployment of UN Peacekeeping forces in the world, 17,000 troops in all, but it needs more. The UN has been debating for over a month whether it should deploy an extra 3,000 desperately needed troops. Hopefully they will be moved in soon to relieve the 200,000 Congolese trapped behind enemy lines, unable to find adequate food and services.
Where is the outrage in America over our government's inaction? So much blame has been placed on Clinton and his administration for their lack of action in Rwanda in 1994. Now we have a situation that is arguably a worse humanitarian disaster in the same region and we are doing nothing! Regardless of who represents us in the Oval Office, it is up to us citizens to act and defend human rights and human dignity when it comes under attack.
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