Congo's War from All Sides
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2008
- Archives from the War (2008): We highlight our full and powerful archive covering the Congo' s last few years. Footage includes those left struggling in the refugee camps and the Rebels vs Army fight for the precious mineral-rich lands.
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Despite the agreed ceasefire, war continues to rage with widespread killing and raping. "Our future is to die", states one 18 year old. The demand for minerals such as coltan and cassiterite also fuels the killings, where militias force locals to work at gunpoint in terrible conditions. "Once you get down more than 200 feet, the air flow stops altogether," explains one miner. Can peace ever return here?
Congo's Forgotten War - 07 min 10 sec
Every month, another 45,000 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, 5,500 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 20,000 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. (Susan Schulman - Ref. 3899)
Congo's Curse - 14 min 37 sec
The militias, formed during Congo's civil war, now control much of the country's natural resources. The government faces a big problem disarming them.The war may officially be over, but the militias remain. "Gold is the reason why every year, we have war and rebellions", states Ngabu Adirodu. It is still too dangerous for aid workers to travel without military escorts. The population is trapped between rival militias and the new army and many towns have been deserted. As one man states: "We are as afraid of the army as the militias." (IRIN - Ref. 3157)
Congo's Tin Soldiers - 20 min 00 sec
The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labour to extract the ore, forcing locals to work in sub-human conditions."Once you get down there, there's no air", describes one worker. "The rocks often bury us and you have to crawl through the tiny hole, using your fingers to dig." Labourers like him often go unpaid. They're forced to work at gunpoint by militias operating outside the control of the government. "Different armed groups do what they want with the population", laments minister Buta Muiso. But British businessman Ketankumar Kotecha sees nothing wrong in buying casiterite from the militias. "If I didn't do it, someone else would. I am not here as some kind of moral saviour." (Elizabeth Jones - Ref. 3095)
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What's most disturbing is the Democratic Republic of Congo isn't the only place in Africa that suffers such insurgency. Sudan, Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Algeria, Kenya and many other places in Africa experienced the same amount of unnecessary bloodshed and butchery as D.R.C. No human being should ever have to suffer so much under any political, religious, historic or social issue. When will we learn that civil war and insurgency simply doesn't work for anyone and for any cause.
Look at how beautiful this country is... if they ever stabilize they could do well with tourism
you and your arrogant fathers takes what we have.
they shed our blood like water and your God also create us as not humans
How can stabilization comes if America is giving Guns
@@luinomrkt2111 how do you win a war with no guns?
@@the50blessings88better one, how do you DO wars without guns ?
@@MiroMakhno
We do internet wars.
We have tons of keyboard warriors in YT alone.
"Psh, the CIA was EVERYWHERE during the cold war, trust me..."
I believe it. That's what I was trying to convey to our friend here.
Breaks my heart😢
next july i deploy with my battalion (a canadian infantry battalion) to possibly the Congo on a peacemaking UN mission. didnt think to much of it till i started watching these documentaries. its going to be an insane tour
It maybe a long shot considering it has been 2 years but how did it go?
.... THE MOST TRADED METAL IN THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE....
To say the place has always been like this is about like saying that the people who inhabit the Croatia-Bosnia-Herzegovina area have always been at war the way they were in the 1990s.
I hope everything goes fine in that country
12 years ago.
And the war's still going.
...
God help us all.
you may be disappointed.
You might be even more disappointed.
thats horrible...
no one should have to live through that...
What if I showed up, with mercenaries, and took over a mine? Then paid fair wages to workers, and created a mini paradise? Then maybe I expand a little, take another mine. Increase mercenaries, and increase heavy arms support. Maybe I then bring in a few helicopter, radar towers, and snag a few more mines. See what I am saying?
I thought the exact same thing ,, I’m sure there is money to be made.
Apply to xerox. I used to clear landmines for 3 dollars an hour.
Oh my people
@PSG1JOHN1 - The problem now is Africa has a lot of ethnic and religious tensions (many dating back to colonialists arbitrarily drawing lines thru Africa with no regard to these divisions) and leaders who are holdovers from the Cold War era who don't care about the people. Africa has a high population growth rate, but many people still use medieval farming techniques. If African governments started investing in industrial farming equipment they could solve a lot of the hunger.
I agree with this notion... Africa would have been better off without any natural resources under her feet. This has been a curse rather than a blessing, and we need to wise up and stop selling our souls to the outside devils that profits from, and creates this atrocity. One Love, One Africa!
The pane lands in an abandoned road for cassiterite hurting. My country is blessed
nothing new seen it all before
in the words of the song
When will we ever learn
seems like never
YOUR attitude is EXACTLY why there will never be peace and understanding in the world. Because everyone is too hung up on their own superiority, too afraid to contemplate that perhaps the world isn't as they imagine it too be. It's too scary to let go of your false sense of security and actually think about the problem logically and sympathetically. They have problems, but they are your fellow human beings. Lucky you don't have to walk in their shoes, you'd never make it.
If you look at the scenery the landscape is beautiful. But the suffering is indescribable, guess that is the default state when there is weak central authority and greed runs the show. Blessings to the people of the Congo so their crucible will finally be over after so many years.
@McCarthy331 - I'd like to see more "Made in Congo" watermarks and stickers as well but we're probably more likely to see "Made in South Africa" and "Made in Nigeria" ones (in the next 5-10 years for the former and in the next 15-25 years for the latter) before ones for Congo. Still, I hope and pray countries like Congo, Malawi and Burundi can be pulled back from the abyss.
Being a US citizen I also hope we don't continue on our path to end up like the Soviet Union in 1989-91. :(
This is really sad and frustrating to watch. Sometimes I wish Canada would send peacekeepers there to help out but they were pushed into Afghanistan instead ... I actually never knew about this until a few days ago when I saw a little clip about this on the news, not just any news tho it was a small local Hamilton news station that is only aired in Ontario, media is silencing this! WHY!? War on democracy ... sickens me.
Ravi Somaiya discusses his recent book on the Congo Civil War in the 60s and Dag Hammarskjöld's death. Listen to it here warscholar.org/?p=2396
@McCarthy331 - We'll probably see more economic prominence from S. Africa before other African countries since S. Africa was listed in 2010 as a "Newly Industrialized Country" and continues to drive much of the continent's foreign investment and industrial production. Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana, Angola, Namibia (and Tanzania and Sudan to a lesser extent) are the next African countries most likely to become more prominent and industrialized. Maybe some time in the 2020s or 30s.
Well,well, welcome to the future.....
@A86 completley agree.
The #CongoTragedy ,such a sad story and tale.
kingnek, eloquently stated!
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Gee, I wonder why nobody is seriously talking about US lead interventions into African countries, where there are huge conflicts that most people don't even know about, and Middle East conflicts are regularly front page news.
+largelysubatomic oil
Minerals aren't as urgent to control as crude.
True, oil is key. There are other factors as well. In recent years, the terrorism problem in the mid east drives it more. Africans don't really bother anybody else like the middle easterners do
Sadly, the video answered that question. What happens in the Middle east affects the world, but what happens in the Congo does not so no one cares as long as the minerals keep coming out of it. It's that simple. :(
Because they is none?
12:40 That A.P.C looks just like a vietnam-era M113 APC which would make it over 40 years old.
It's now 2020 and the problem is not yet solved
"The chinese will take what they can get and spit the rest out at the end"
That remains yet to be seen. While I don't have faith in Chinese investors to be there for any altruistic reasons so far they have shown to not be as exploitative with their deals as European investors have been historically been. Maybe if the West would stop trying to exploit and instead try to invest in the African economy to become better so the West can have an equal trading partner, they might get a better reaction.
Caciterite is the mineral those men were mining in the Congo in the first segment. Caciterite is used in cellphone electronics. If it weren't for those miners we wouldn't have these luxuries in the first place. Thank you mama Africa.
"Blame yourselves for allowing them to be that way"
Who is "yourselves"? I'm a Westerner. I'm African-AMERICAN, not Congolese.
"No one in CIA paid any attention to Africa those days"
Mobutu (the man who replaced Lumumba) was supported and funded by Richard Nixon as an anti-communist bulwark. The CIA also deposed Kwame Nkrumah and tried to de-install the government of Mozambique for fear of "Communism spreading in the dark continent". Alexander Solzhenitsyn even called for the US to do that to Mozambique. If you think the CIA didn't do any work in Africa during the Cold War it just show little you know about history.
valdigne- one fairly pervasive point of view is that God created a sentient being who is not only able to appreciate history and be self-aware but is able to make his own decisions based on imperfect motivations. The first book ever published as well as the best-selling one of all time is adept as explaining this dillemma.
This is sad, God please intervene
@A86 very interesting, I agree about the dictatorships. But unfortunitly there is too much violence, and poverty their as well. I hope that more nations in africa will industrialize effectively. But their are a number of bad examples, hopefuly we will see Made in Congo on some products... but it will be a very long time.
Eza pasi po na Congo 😭😭😭😭
Damn 1000 a day god damn
I will be a president of DRC one day these things are gonna end
So sad.
What about coltan? Its the same situation as well with diamonds. The horrors of the Congo continue.
"Kivu province was like is now even back then"
There have certainly always been wars between different peoples in Africa (as in Europe where until the 19th century there were wars virtually every 25 years), but nothing on the scale of post-colonial Africa.
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"things aren't bad in africa?"
I didn't say that all. I said things aren't all bad in Africa and most of Africa isn't as bad off as Congo. Holding up Congo as a representative of the general condition of Africa is like holding up the Bible Belt or the low-income Rustbelt of America where 10% of the population is unemployed as the general condition of how most people in the West live.
@McCarthy331 - Though I would argue that this cycle won't completely end as long as Western companies monopolize productive capital in Africa and Western governments continue to install or fund Mobutu/Idi Amin-type puppets. Even though Asia's economic growth is slowing I think China, India and S. Korea will probably continue to be the most dominant non-Western economies for a while as Western economies lose prominence. Not so much Japan because it's spiraling downhill like most of the West.
The only way that i know to become free is through knowlege. I thully think that eventually internet will provide that. People will be able to change ideas, to learn, to plan.
go311: How bout New Orleans? Like so many other socioeconomic indicators- sad but true.
@axzel575 - I know. That's what I was just saying to "McCarthy331". It seems many African countries are just as bad off under colonialism now that the white tyrants have been replaced by black tyrants.
That comment from 2 years ago was responding to a few comments below me where some people were claiming Africa was better off under colonialism and longing for the "good ole days" of Rhodesia and Apartheid-era S. Africa. Which was just as shitty, just in different ways.
@PSG1JOHN1 - That's a mixture of myths and truths. The black leaders do know how to farm (Africans have farmed since the Neolithic revolution over 5,000 years ago), many of them just didn't care. A lot of the African leaders from the mid-70s to the early 90s were Western-appointed dictators who were in power to protect Western business interests in Africa. They usually didn't give a shit if the African people were starving, as long as they got paid to protect Western companies' monopolies.
@TheWeakAmerica What were your point ? That EU doesnt want to cooperate with african countries ?
and here in america they complain about welfare they say it's not enough.
if the first thing you think seeing black people, is welfare. You're racist. Unless it's because they're poor... that'd be a good save on your part ;)
"a lot of slums, dirty streets even if you are indicating an ordinary village or Kenya's capital for example"
Sure, but you can find the same thing in any city of the world in any country and any continent. America has some of the dirtiest cities in the industrialized world.
The hell on earth
I`m glad I saw this cuase I was about to buy this mineral make-up they anounce on tv but I dare not & I will not patronize such abuse on my fello man. It disgust me how we oppress one another knowing it`s not right & not wanting it done to one, but sooner or later KARMA will catch up. JMP thank you for the clip. God bless!
If no one buy it from now on, we will not have killings anymore over it. Or if the money actually went to the population in that sector then for education and creation of jobs. It's deeper then just killing each other. I have two words, Poverty and Greed.
If nato would took part of this conflict, a lot of people would blam them and people would accuse them of those death
IKR RUSSIA and China would CNN would radicals would propaganda would and the media and democrats and liberals and some republicans and some conservatives if they are radicals
this is sad that people act this way an this day in time they will all pay in the long run for what there doing to these people
@McCarthy331 - Most of the dictatorships are more than happy to exploit their own people and look the other way on near-slave labor, as long as the Western companies slip them a small percentage of the profits. The dictatorial governments encourage violence against their own people by roving militia thugs.
There is some hope, though. Africa is the continent with the most countries with high GDP growth and rapid rates of industrialization. Botswana, S. Africa, Angola, Namibia, etc. stand out.
Cassiterite - probably used in the very computer on which you are watching this video. COME ON PEOPLE EDUCATE EVRYONE YOU KNOW.
This modern form of Colonialism is despicable.
At least the Victorians gave something back to the country but the present is total exploitation and humanitarian disaster.
"this is the way people in the congo have been acting for hundreds of years. it's not a "war" in the sense that WWII was a war."
Horseshit. Read about the Kongo Kingdom, the Kakongo Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Loango. That's what Congo was like before colonization.
wohhhhhh
rape, murder and cannibalism still the order of the day as well as ancestor worship and belief in voodoo. Nothing changes from decade to decade from what I can see.
@arfwang cassiterite
Not to mention that things aren't all bad in Africa. Not by a long shot. Congo doesn't represent all African nations. There are many African countries who are doing relatively well right now. Africa has a continental GDP that is approaching $3 Trillion (more than $3 Trillion in PPP) and has had an average economic growth rate of ~7%/year since 2000. Investment in Africa is at an all-time high by China, India, Brazil and the EU.
the un wont intervene because they have nothing to really gain from the congo its sad but true
I can't because I am not brainwashed , but if there is a god then I laugh at him for creating this misery on earth, isn't god supposed to be perfect ?
They said the UN is there, they just don't leave base.
this shit happens everyday all over the world. I live in a country where any automatic is illegal for a reason. How bout gaza wit over a thousand dead in a wk over another bible disput. Until we eliminate the price tag we all have on our heads we wont see peace, until our lives are valued as priceless. Human life is a gift regardless wat religion ppl are from an everyone gets a second chance. Its so painfull seein kids without a chance but to join militia.I coulnt even imagine wat like to endure
why cant the congo president ask help from the neighboring countries, like Nigeria, Senegal, Libya,e.t.c. what is he waiting for.
And what is their excuse right now!!!
If we stop blaming the white man, devil, god, and invisible guy, we will take accountability for own problems. We need enlightment, education, and coniving in order to invert this situation.
But first,everyone should be held accountable and credit given where due.Congolese people know what they want hence the reason they voted for patrice lumumba but the CIA executed him the US was responsible for fixing mobuto and the two next following dictators,they have been providing rwanda and ugandan armies with ammunition as well as training.This is now a global issue as africans we should learn we have let them down for not raising a voice and the west are equally guilty they benefit from blood money at the expense of more victims being exploited.Yes,africans should learn to be accountable but the west should and must leavr africa alone we r not the dummys as rumour has it but who would do good in an enviroment where puppets r fixed all over and good leaders eliminated systematically
exactly! this is why the us or france or the brits dont get involved in this conflict in Goma -Kongo its because there is no gain for them being ther(ther are not many and big oil or other sionistic or antirussian intrests ther to justify an armed nato interferance)plus Africa in general is a no go place for Nato (look Somalia etc).As i see the "ethnic" tensions between Hutu and Tutsis (actualy both are ethnicly and Linguistikly very related according to wikipedia )is only a excuse
then the "world" needs to send this troops now before this is going to become a new genocide, political analysts have already predicted that this going to be an other Rwanda but this time 4 times bigger.
Try to imagine living a life that leads absolutely no where. I can understand why people fight but there has to be a beginning and end, not a forever just for the sake of exploitation and killing.
We in the west piss our pants over the slightest problems. It's really funny in a twisted way.
Africa will suffers untill the greed of the so call industrialized nations is checked.
Tha white man be holdin yous down! Damn I'm sick of hearing that cop out.
This would be the best course of action.. As someone says here though, the greed of the West would have to be checked. Individual bankers and fat-cats should not be able to profit from colonial ventures - only those who had fought for the country and given great service. The fratricidal European Nationalism of the past should be avoided but seperate paths maintained; (such competition drives progress) the White race would return to its former glory and so the overall fate of Manking improve.
Kenya 🇰🇪 is ready to stabilise Congo
look dude I can understand your frustration with my comments but you need to realise, I havent just sat here and seen things on google. I have experienced life all over the place. I know a black man who has nothing but started a project in madagascar to save the coral because he knows thats where his food comes from. Anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Just using excuses is not good enough. If there is money for guns, there should be money for food and regeneration
You will hear them saying that it's Rwandans 🤔
Etegd
god help africa although I do not have in god
"divided to conquire"
That always works. but the victims must be corrupt idiots in the first place.
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pepole say why doesnt the us help because they dont want to plus we should help anyone because then we get poor ass country begging wtf help your self we have our own problems
science will save everyone
My country hope this will end we I become a president
I hope that the Congolese and other African armies are involved and invited to join the 200 million strong army in the prophecy because I like Africa and African people very much. Already the euphrates river drying up and the February 2023 Turkey Syria Earthquake fulfill A prophecy. The next prophecy following these is an army 200 million strong will wipe out their betrayers and enemies of God
I'm sure it won't be fine. Presidents promise the world during election time. I just hope that is one of the MANY MANY areas that he doesn't come through on. To be honet I'd be perfectly happy if he just sat his pretty face in front of the camera every once in awhile and did nothing else except get his check.
I notice British films like to point out pain and suffering around the world. I say Britian get involved instead of just pointing it out! =)
Send the British. They have a long history in Africa. America needs to mind it's own business.
russia na they have inof probs already
European imperialist superpowers destroyed Africa then once they left or were kicked out new black imperialist leaders finished to destroy the continent.
Lumumba was the best hope for Congo and he was murdered by CIA backed Mobutu thugs. It started back then.
"gang rape" horribly wrong yet amuses me cos im an occidental ignorant
afeite la barba!
and into iran!
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I wouldn't say you guys numb nuts.
Who sold them the guns? Who makes money of off their land? The us and the colonialists. They are the fault.
Well said
America needs to mind it's own business.
They are all black countries?
maybe you should start to think of god as an energy, a force, instead of a person...
Have they ever considered airdropping condoms along with food??
Not joking..Im really interested in knowing how someone has 6 children living like that!