Congo conflict 3.8 million dead.

The instability of the Congo is demonstrated in its ever changing reactionary policies against the outside world, it’s own political turmoil, tribal warfare, and mad grabs for immediate power in a nation that was once a rich and self-serving mining epicenter. US involvement destroying the fledgling socialist/black reformist movements of Lumumba in the early portion of this country’s development have completely destroyed any sort of solidarity reaching, and producing quaking tides through surrounding nations as well as the Congolese themselves.

Study: Congo conflict claims 3.8M lives – - – - – - – - – - – -
Dec. 9, 2004 | Dakar, Senegal — Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
The group’s last survey, released in April 2003, estimated 3.3 million deaths.
For years, the international association has produced the most widely used running estimate of deaths in Congo, Africa’s third-largest nation. More than 31,000 civilians continue to die each month as a result of the conflict despite peace deals, the group says, citing mortality surveys prepared with the assistance of onsite teams of physicians and epidemiologists. Congo’s death toll remains one-third higher than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa 18 months after major peace deals, the New York-based group said. Most deaths come from easily treatable ailments, it said, citing measles epidemics known to have swept populations in rebel-held areas during the war. The 1998-2002 war in Congo drew in the armies of five other African nations. Neighboring Rwanda and Uganda and allied Congolese rebel groups held control…

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