Holocaust in Congo: The International Community's Omerta

More than 10 million dead, 7 million internally displaced, 500 000 woman raped, yet silence surrounds this tragedy which never makes world headlines. For how long still will this blackout persist? The Democratic Republic of Congo (Dr, formerly Zaire, saw a large influx of Rwandan refugees between April and July 1994. Since then, the country has been persistently attacked and looted by Rwandan and Ugandan troops.What is unfolding in this country where the civilian death toll has reached millions and hundreds of thousands of women are raped? African Great Lakes expert, the author plunges us into the years preceding and following the fall of former Congolese President Mobutu with the invasion of Zaire in 1996, and the setting up of a system of occupation which is still in place to this day.Major events are reconstructed using a wide range of primary archival sources, spanning from US and French Presidential records, US national security agencies report and memos, letters, congressional hearings, judicial trials, parliamentary inquiries and newspaper articles of the time, as well as interviews with key actors. Secondary sources are also widely cited, with a particular attention to a variety of less known emerging Congolese authors. Following over 20 years of research on the region, the author wants to alert public opinion on the designed extermination of the Congolese population. Above all, the author explains how the ongoing massacres are organized, using terror and deceit, so as to camouflage the war of agression and render the country servile to the needs of global interests in the arms, cell phone and energy transition industries the country servile to the needs of global interests in the arms, cell phone and energy transition industries.. Read more