Young as 6 raped by troops in Congo who fled M23

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DRC became independent in 1960. Up to that point it was ruled by one of the most brutal colonial regimes in Africa, and perhaps the world. Mobutu wasn't any better, and his regime ended in 1997. Under both of these regimes there were enormous human rights' violations. There has effectively been civil wars since 1997. I don't think it's hard to see that the current state of things in DRC are so violent because, in part, of it's very violent, repressive, not-so-distant past. How can a group of people who have known nothing but violence and repression from their governments, suddenly be peaceful?? That takes at least a few generations to work out, and a lot of willingness on all sides to stop the violence. It's just not there yet.

western governments do not care who owns or runs the Congo these degenerates only serve their multinational conglomerates in and attempt to extract as much wealth from africa as possible, the congo is the richest mining territory int the world, so why would they care if M23 ruled the congo or not? why would they fight against a United Congo?

You answered your own question. The coorporate interest is to just extract what they can and leave. That's hard to do when there is an armed militia attacking the mines, killing or essentially enslaving the workforce, and in some cases sabatoging the expensive infrastructure. Too much in-fighting in Congo. It's not stable enough for investments to always pay off.

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Wow, what a fucking depressing read.

Welcome to the political situation that is Africa. At least in my experience (I visited Kenya some years ago, my husband travels there frequently for work, though not this year, the sequester forced him to slash the travel budget ), the people tend to be upbeat and just try to make their way as they can, no matter their limiting circumstances.