Death in the Congo: a mother watches as machete militiamen murder her little girls

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 05/30/2003 | Adrian Blomfield

[FreedomCalls]

The Rape of Nanking. Japanese vs. Chinese
Also, the Pacific Theatre:Guadcanal, Iwo Jima. Americans vs. Japanese.

In none of those did soldiers from either side chop off the limbs of little girls, eat them with enthusiasm, and toss the still alive torsos onto the campfires all in front of the little girl's mother. This is not in the western experience.

Lendu militiamen have been eating their victims' hearts and livers, apparently in the superstitious belief that it would make them invincible.

Christianity has saved us in the west from this sort of thing. Perhaps we need to send more missionaries and less U.N. weenies.

"War is Hell." ~ W. T. Sherman
But this is not war's brutality of soldier on soldier. This is pure depravity, pure evil, a total lack of moral values. I can find no human characteristics in this story -- it reads likes something from a Jane Goodall special on Animal Planet.

[Copernicus]

Duly noted.

Best regards,

[Skywalk]

Well, the Japanese actually did some things that were pretty similar, especially in China and Singapore. Putting babies in boiling pots, mass rapes, bayonettings, etc.

[softengine]

Agreed. And I didn't mean to bite your head off. It just makes me ill when I hear horric tales such as this one.....knowing how much we've all spent on trying to help these folks.

I tend to be of the mind that helping others out is not just a gracious act (which it is) but is a necessary part of making the world a better place for everyone. But I also believe that you can only do so much. At some point you expect those that have been benefiting from that help to get with the program and start helping themselves.

[jocon307]

"But I also believe that you can only do so much."


Soft, I agree with this too. It's very disturbing that 50 (or so) years after the end of Colonial rule Africa seems ever more to deserve the name "dark continent". Even Red China seems to try and do better by their populace than the so-called rulers in Africa.

It's very sad. Maybe, eventually, the growth of Black conservatism in America will help these unfortunate people.