(May 13, 2013 at 11:33 pm)cratehorus Wrote:(May 12, 2013 at 8:14 am)festive1 Wrote: 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.
well you can say the same thing against america and it's war against the afghans, american troops have committed mass rapes, and murders of innocent civilians.. it just revolves around who you support, it seems the wars amongst the multiple territories in the congo is between the american and western governrments against the rwandan national government, so who do you support............. festive?
Given Rwanda's repressive regime (like Eritrea it's totalitarian), if forced to choose, I'd have to go with the democratically elected (kinda, the elections have been problematic) DRC government. I don't like either side. Imperfect solutions for an imperfect world.
