Over 6 Million Dead

Just what does that really mean anyway?

6 million dead does not include all the people living and dying in refugee camps. Living and dying in camps with no food, no shelter and no medical care.  How long could you survive living under these conditions?

This sounds like a concentration camp.

If people in the Congo need to be relocated in order for mining to take place, why are Congolese citizens, innocent women, children, men, families, left to fend for themselves with nothing?

If they are to be relocated shouldn’t they have  shelter, food, clothing, medical care and a way of providing for themselves, perhaps farming equipment, animals for milk and meat, a way to make clothing etc?

With all the money coming out of the Congo, surely there is enough to spare to aid people who are being displaced.

Could it be that greed has so completely overtaken the Countries, Corporations, and Leaders who are profiting from the Congo, that money has become the only thing they care about?  This certainly seems to be the case.

These are crimes against humanity.

It is criminal and an act of genocide, to displace people  and give them nothing for their survival, knowing full well that to do so will indeed mean their untimely and deliberate death.

What does 6 million mean?

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This is why it is so very important that we as a world take action to stop genocide.

The conflict has its roots in the mid-70s. I was unaware of this until just a couple of days ago.  The US needed Cobalt for colored televisions so they went to Congo, a region rich in cobalt and it was there and then the birth of this money making machine was unleashed. It continues to this day and well into the 21st century.

Sadly we live in a world where big business and a few making a lot of money takes precedence over everything else including silencing the outrage  and the news coverage of Over 6 Million Lives Lost in the Congo Conflict.

It seems clear that once our leaders are able to look the Congo square in the face and see what is happening and take action, they will also be able to see and address Wall Street. Its the same issue in a different form.

The average citizen, which is most of us, is wiser than the government. Our vision is not clouded by acquiring money of late, but of sheer survival. So much have we seen our middle class standard of living falter and flee.

We the majority who have not lost our compassion, need to make our leaders hear and understand that what is going on in the Congo, the countries who participate in this, will suffer dire consequences and so will every citizen who lives within the boundaries of these countries.

its the responsibility of each one of us, and I will repeat this in other blogs, to take action in big and small ways to begin a dialogue about what is happening in Africa. It is from the very cradle of the world that salvation lies, and equally its destruction.  It is this important.

And in terms of the human cost, over 6 Million People lost is a travesty.

Is money really so important to make that we’ve forgotten our own humanity? And if this can happen in the Congo can it spread to the rest of the world? Perhaps greed like this is contagious in the hearts of people. What then?

I came across a photo of two children, one about age 9 or 10, the other 4. They were sobbing, separated from their families.  I thought, these are children. I saw the fear and anguish in their eyes. I cannot imagine that kind of fear.

Yes we have many problems in the United States that need addressing, many who are suffering, but most of us do not live in conditions like these in our worst moments!

I don’t think most of us would survive under the condition the Congolese people are living amongst. Add to it war, and attacks on refugee camps and their is no safety, no peace, no place for refuge.

Isn’t that what a refugee camp is all about, refuge? I dare say that soldiers in war have better conditions than the average person living in Eastern Congo. What will it take for us to wake up and see what is happening in this part of the world?