(May 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm)cratehorus Wrote:(May 11, 2013 at 7:09 am)festive1 Wrote: Of all the world's clusterfucks... Congo is particularly sad. No one is in the right.
The M23 is only trying to use the mining rights for the people of that country, the congolese amy (the ones who committed these rapes) are working for the Americans, the Chinese, and the British
You say this as if M23 hasn't committed any atrocities in their own right. They have: http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/11/dr-co...war-crimes
When any group resorts to mass rapes, forced recruitment, or attacks on civilians, they lose all claim to the moral high ground, IMO.
M23 doesn't want the mining rights for the good of the Congolese people, they want them to fund their own agenda. The West and China are backing the government because DRC has the richest, untapped natural resources on the planet, and they want access to those resources. It's the old story of, "Sure they're assholes, but they're OUR assholes." That has played out throughout history. Doesn't justify it or make it right, but here we are, backing dispicable people out of a larger group of equally dispicable people.
