'Bodies coming out of the mud' - Rwanda (today)

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Rodrique Ngowi

Kigali, Rwanda - At least 25 people were killed when unidentified gunmen men unleashed a three-day campaign of rape, arson and murder on a remote village in the troubled eastern Congolese province of North Kivu, a UN spokesperson said on Saturday.

UN officials probing the massacre have seen bodies buried in shallow graves "coming out of the mud" in Lukweti, 200km northeast of the provincial capital Goma, said Jacqueline Chanard, speaking for the UN mission in DRC.

The local administrator said 25 people were killed, but residents told UN human rights officials probing the killings that more than 40 villagers were slaughtered, including some in the part of the village that remains cut off after the assailants destroyed the bridge as they withdrew, Chenard said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1510698,00.html

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1. Sudan is next.

Listen I understand if a few pacifists come out of the woodwork to bash me on this one.

However, one of the founded purposes of the UN was to try and prevent the kind of genocidal tragedy we saw in WWII.

Instead of wasting life in a place like Iraq we should be in front of the security council everyday pushing for a stop in the violence in Sudan and action if it does not stop.

BTW, at least the shrub did call for the leader of Sudan to stop the killings and I believe there is currently a cease-fire but I have also heard that the Sudanese military are using the time to get ready to make the final push.

All the wrong battles all the time... Ugh.

After Somalia I understand the Repukes would have tried to impeach Clinton if he had attempted to go to Rwanda but my god the horror... the bloody freaking horror of it all.

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2. i don't think pacifists

will disagree with that scenario as you present it.
it's that turning events into colonial power grabs thing that gets pacifists upset.
then the lives lost become a waste. but seperating waring parties and protecting minority ethnic groups from extermination have to be goals that are studied and done carefully respecting self determination.