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Business / Internet / Media / Politics / Society15.03.2012

Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

Why does it matter, if Invisible Children was funded by controversial donors? Two reasons - one, we can assume those donors thought IC aligned with their agenda - which is antagonistic to LGBT rights. Two, it fits an emerging pattern in which Invisible Children appears selectively concerned about crimes committed by Joseph Kony but indifferent to crimes, perhaps on a bigger scale, committed by their provisional partner, the government of Uganda - whose president shot his way into power using child soldiers, before Joseph Kony began using child soldiers. Like Kony, the government of Uganda was also indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2005, for human rights abuses and looting in the DRC Congo. Like Kony, the Ugandan army preys upon civilians and is currently accused, by Western human rights groups, with raping and looting in the DRC Congo, where it is hunting for Kony. In the late 1990s, Uganda helped spark a conflict in DRC Congo that, by the middle of the next decade it is estimated, had killed up to 5.4 million civilians, more than any conflict since World War Two.

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Crimes / Documentary / Politics / Society / Videos10.10.2011

Schatten über dem Kongo

Es gibt unterschiedliche Berechnungen, wie viele Bewohner des Kongo-Freistaates unter Leopolds Herrschaft ermordet wurden bzw. durch die Folgen seiner Politik starben.Zwischen 1880 und 1920 wurde die Bevölkerung des Kongo um mindestens die Hälfte reduziert. Adam Hochschild spricht von 10 Millionen Toten, was auf einer Schätzung von Jan Vansina beruht. Eine große Zahl von Menschen wurde grausam misshandelt, gequält und brutal verstümmelt. Viele konnten in der Folge sich selbst und ihre Familien nicht mehr ernähren und starben an Unterernährung.