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  • The agony of a traumatised nation heard in the cries of a beaten child

    01/03/2004 1:49:15 AM PST · by propertius · 8 replies · 125+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 3rd January, 2004 | Adrian Blomfield
    The vast, mutilated African state of Congo is enjoying a ceasefire but butchery and theft continue apace while the West remains inactive reports Adrian Blomfield in Aru Nine-year-old Bahati lies on the ground whimpering, a urine stain slowly darkening the front of his baggy camouflage trousers. Two boys, perhaps three or four years older and also dressed in military uniform, stand over his body clutching bamboo canes in their hands. A boy soldier in the eastern Congo They look across at "General Jerome", a former traffic warden who now heads the Armed Forces of Congolese Patriots, or FAPC, one of...
  • AP: Miners Drawn to Illegal Congo Uranium

    05/31/2004 2:39:24 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 14 replies · 388+ views
    The Las Vegas Sun ^ | May 31, 2004 at 14:31:41 PDT | TODD PITMAN
    SHINKOLOBWE, Congo (AP) - Business is booming in the mining zone that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - despite a decree by Congo's president banning all mining activity here. President Joseph Kabila ordered the zone closed three months ago amid growing concerns that unregulated nuclear materials could get into the hands of so-called rogue nations or terrorist groups. Yet 1,000 miles away from the capital, Kinshasa, thousands of diggers are still hacking away at a dark cavity of open earth in this southeastern village, filling thousands of burlap sacks a day with black soil...