An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/18/congo-women-rape

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In 1996, I was sitting with 20,000 grieving women in a stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia. The women were holding photographs of husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and boyfriends who had been ­disappeared a year earlier in a place called Srebrenica, a UN enclave where Bosnian refugees had turned over their protection to UN peacekeepers who stood passively by as 10,000 men were marched off to be slaughtered.

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Created by Niluccio on 19 June 2009

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Very powerful article.

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