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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: dishdutyfugitive on January 24, 2008, 10:43:18 AM

Title: War in Congo Kills 45,000 People Each Month
Post by: dishdutyfugitive on January 24, 2008, 10:43:18 AM
The first 10 comments on the article hit the nail on the head.


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/23/6574/ (http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/23/6574/)


"If these kids were white, it would be a different story."

"So that’s five 911 size disasters every day for 10 years - We are so full of … ourselves (that’s bad enough)"

"More people are dying in this conflict in any given 2 days than have died in the Palestinian/Israel conflict in the past 8 years. Yet, articles about the former outnumber articles about the latter by over 50-1 including on CD. Why is this? Is it because both the killers and the victims are black?"