A Small Step toward Stopping Child Soldiers

Congo stands to lose $800,000 in foreign military financing.

The measure was introduced by Senators Richard Durbin and Sam Brownback.


U.S. Restricts Aid to Nations Using Child Soldiers OneWorld.net (U.S.): "WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (OneWorld.net) - The United States passed a law last week restricting military aid to governments involved in the use of child soldiers. Afghanistan, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda may be affected."

Feeling Despair and Paralysis

Why do you feel despair and paralysis with Darfur and CONGO?

Editorial - A Policy for Preventing Genocide - NYTimes.com: "Darfur, Congo, Rwanda and, before that, Bosnia. It is hard to contemplate man’s capacity for inhumanity without feeling despair and paralysis. The world usually pays attention only after the killing has spun out of control, when ethnic, religious and political divides are rubbed so raw that the furies are infinitely harder to calm. By that point, the United States and others are faced with the agonizing choice of either intervening militarily or allowing the killing to go on."

Exposing the Congo War with an Online Museum

http://arrestnkundanow.blogspot.com/2008/12/mjpc-online-museum-of-victims-of-war-in.html

Sacramento, California. 12/12/2008. The new organization known as Mobilization of Justice and Peace in the D.R. Congo (MJPC) announced today the launch of phase one of its online museum of victims of the war in the D.R.Congo. According to the project coordinator of the MJPC, Amede Kyubwa, the online museum aims to expose this war, remaining virtually invisible to the outside world despite ongoing unacceptable barbarity, and aims to expose how innocent people in Congo continue to suffer massive human rights violations while armed groups responsible for these crimes go unpunished.

The online museum, available at http://www.yoursilenceoncongo.org , is currently developing its collections policy and plan to determine the scope of the collections. "The museum will make particular use of collected images/photos of the war victims and help prevent similar catastrophes in the future," said Mr. Kyubwa.