"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

30 October 2008

EASTERN CONGO---DO SOMETHING!!!!




FOR CHRISTS SAKE, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, UNITED NATIONS, US, EU, AU, WHOEVER IS LISTENING------DO SOMETHING!!!!!
Have we learned NOTHING from our past? The United Nations has "expressed concern..." about the recent events in the east of Congo, around the city of Goma, where Tutsi rebel forces have dislodged the corrupt and inept Congolese Army forces. The historical rift and ethnic hatred, as well as the greed which plagues all, are all important factors in this renewed conflict; however, all factors need to be disregarded; the responsibility is to act, to avoid the talking points, to avoid the bureaucratic inertia of the past, which has allowed for the deaths of millions. Please stem the tide before it grows too large to control.


The region, historically unstable, is fast slipping into chaos. A country which has already lost FIVE MILLION people to war in the last decade. When will we act, not in our own self-interest, but in the interest of HUMANITY!!!!!