31,000 Die Monthly in Congo Conflict

tsunami, tsunami, tsunami, give, give, give….the whole world is donating money to all kinds of organizations to help the victims of the tsunami in Asia. Millions and millions in all currencies, collected by talkshows, commercials, celebreties.
Medicine Sans Frontiers has received such huge amounts of money that it is too much, they already have what they need for a full deploy of staff and co-workers to the area to help at their maximum capacity. How they would LOVE to spend the rest at projects that are even more horrific then this natural disaster caused.
The tsunami deathtoll is at about 160.000 now, could very well rise in months to come due to epidemics caused by lack of hygiene in the refugee camps.
And while the whole world and every media available focusses on those figures, thousands and thousands of people die each month due to manmade disasters in different of the African continent.
How come we do not seem to care?
Read and weep:

December 9, 2004 Amid a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Rescue Committee issued a mortality survey today which finds that more than 3.8 million people have died there since the start of the war in August, 1998 and more than 31,000 civilians continue to die monthly as a result of the conflict.

“DR Congo remains by far the deadliest crisis in the world, but year after year the conflict festers and the international community fails to take effective action,” says the IRC’s Dr. Richard Brennan, one of the study’s authors. “In a matter of six years, the world lost a population equivalent to the entire country of Ireland or the city of Los Angeles. How many innocent Congolese have to perish before the world starts paying attention?”

The latest mortality study, a joint effort by the IRC and Australia’s Burnet Institute, is among the most comprehensive ever conducted in a conflict zone, covering 19,500 households. Mortality data was collected for the period between January 2003 and April 2004.

• Teams of physicians and epidemiologists found that during this time more than 1,000 people died every day in excess of normal…

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