November 2008 Footage from 1960/1, immediately after Congo's independence from Belgium, and featuring good shots of Lumumba and Mbuto, as well as a rare riot at the UN in 1961.
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April 2008 Every month, another 45000 people are killed in the DRC, in a war that was supposed to have ended five years ago. Congo remains one of the world's most dangerous and isolated places. "We live like apes. Our future is to die", states one 18 year old. Despite the agreed ceasefire, war is still raging here. At the Cheverie refugee camp, 5500 families share one tap. There is no toilet. "Our life here is pitiful", laments one woman. Bands of militias roam the countryside, killing civilians and burning down villages. Gang rape has become the most common weapon of war. Sifi, 18, was kidnapped by rebel soldiers. Months of repeated rapes left her paralysed and incontinent. She became pregnant but her baby was stillborn. And it's not just young women who are at risk. Even toddlers and septugenarians have been raped. Many of those who survive contract HIV or are ostracized by the community. "When my husband realised I'd been raped, he abandoned me", states Odette. "He abandoned our two children as well". The rebels prevent food supplies reaching refugees, leading to acute malnutrition. Every month, more than 20000 children die from hunger or easily preventable diseases. The war in Eastern Congo has gone on for so long, few can remember anything else. Every attempt to bring peace has failed.
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By Jonathan Miller: "The war formally ended five years ago - but the fighting didn't. It just carried on, ignored by much of the world. One shocking statistic: every single month 45000 people are killed. The Democratic Republic of Congo remains one of the most dangerous and isolated places on earth. The accompanying video contains photographs and film which offer a rare insight into Africa's forgotten war. They show the suffering of civilians and the use of rape as a weapon of war - against children as young as two. Congo's recent history had offered hope: a fresh peace deal agreed in January between the Congolese government and the majority of the rebel groups operating in the eastern Kivu region, next door to Rwanda. The aim was to end months of violence that has displaced tens of thousands of people. But many of the rebel groups who signed the deal have been blamed for the continuing atrocities. One of the most notorious of them - the FDLR, or Interahamwe - did not participate in the act of engagement deal. The FDLR is made up of Hutus who crossed the border after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Photographer Susan Schulman has just returned from north Kivu with still and filmed footage, along with other material from Medecins Sans Frontieres."
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iantonpictures.blogspot.com Coltan of Congo The War of Electronics starring: George Anton Ben Affleck John Kerry Anton Television Documentary Presentation COLTAN OF CONGO The War of Electronics a document by George Anton Written Directed by George Anton Music by scottaltham_-_Never_Heard_a_Rhyme_Like_This_Before ccmixter.org Ghost_k_-_Stop_(blue_mix) ccmixter.org This is the opinion of Anton Pictures, based on our research. Anton Pictures is not endorsed by ANY of the websites, brands or products, presented in this documentary Credits: en.wikipedia.org voorface.wordpress.com en.wikipedia.org by Alex07 www.voiceofamerica.com goo.gl www.freetheslaves.net http umccongo.blogspot.com en.wikipedia.org www.whale.to www.jean-raymondboulle.eu www.toxel.com www.miningweekly.com Voice Over Conti Michelle www.youtube.com en.wikipedia.org ANTON TELEVISION © 2011 Anton Pictures Parent Company ® October 2011 © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED a subsidiary of Anton Pictures
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Children of Conflict looks at the Democratic Republic of Congo where child soldiers have been used in fighting between tribes and many have had to carry the guilt of rape, murder and pillage.
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'Congo war' by Lord Bryner. Flip is 'Teachme to Ska' by Bryner. C&N JA 1965. Hilarious satire on the struggle for power in The congo / Zaire during the mid 1960's.
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The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted Congolese militia boss Thomas Lubanga of war crimes for using children in his rebel army, in the tribunal's first ever verdict. Lubanga, 51, was found guilty of enlisting child soldiers to fight for his militia in a gold-rich region during the bloody four-year war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which ended in 2003. "The chamber reached its decision unanimously that the prosecution has proved Thomas Lubanga guilty of crimes of conscription and enlisting children under the age of 15 and used them to participate in hostilities," presiding Judge Adrian Fulford told the Hague-based court, set up in 2002.
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The International Criminal Court has reached a verdict for Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. VOA's Vincent Makori talks to Policy Analyst Jacques Bahati about the conviction.
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Classic old SKA tune.
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International human rights groups are welcoming the release of the United Nations' report documenting a decade of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The controversial report has sparked a call for a serious response from the United Nations and governments of the Great Lakes region. VOA's Shaka Ssali discusses the UN's report with VOA's Paul Ndiho and his findings when he shot video in the DRC. Please be advided of graphic video.
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Congo (Reggae) War (Bob Marley) Album Kongo Bongo
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The war unfolding in eastern Congo has claimed perhaps 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake, but this crisis generates little international response. Related Link: bit.ly
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UNICEF correspondent Guy Hubbard reports on a group of boys in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, who sing about being abducted into militias. For more information, please visit: www.unicef.org
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www.euronews.net For over a decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo had been ravaged by what many refer to as Africa's first world war. The fighting was concentrated in the east, where entire rural communities were either massacred or became refugees. After years of being kept alive by international aid many are finally returning to what were once their homes and farms. Innovative agricultural methods may hold the key to ending DR Congo's ongoing cycle of poverty.
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Author Jason Stearns discusses his new book, "Dancing in the glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa" with Mwamoyo Hamza, of VOA's Swahili service.
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Congo is being exploited and left in ruins. Estimated 6 million dead in what is known widely as the deadliest war since WWII. Rape is used as a tool of war to intimidate civilians to gain access to vast mineral wealth. Forced labor and crimes against children is an everyday event. Children are made to become soldiers.
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History Work
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Bosco Ntaganda is wanted by the International Criminal Court for recruiting and using child soldiers in northeastern Congo. But since his arrest warrant was unsealed in 2008, Ntaganda was made a general in the Congolese army. He has also continued to recruit children to fight and has played a role in ethnic massacres, killings, rape and torture. www.hrw.org
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