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Feeding The Hungry
The UN representative's nonchalance in response to the gun shots indicates that they are very common and people have almost grown immune to their terror.
By Carson Tunnell, BNett News
(Source: World Food Programme)
World For Programme "DRC: Feeding the Hungry in A Conflict Zone." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 28 Nov. 2012. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
Due Justice
One of the problems that has caused this is the failure of the DRC to fully assist the International Criminal Court in its efforts to try such people. For example, the government has not apprehended Laurent Nkunda, a former Congolese army official charged with war crimes by the body. To add insult to injury, the government has long known where Nkunda lives but has not moved to arrest him. This man, accused of horrendous acts like gang raping a woman and her three-year old daughter in front of her husband, has not been brought to justice. Rwanda is also partially to blame for not handing over other rebel leaders charged with human rights violations to the international authorities.
The international community and the DRC's government is increasingly focusing on bringing past leaders to trial while allowing local soldiers to rehabilitate themselves, in an effort to end the fighting as soon as possible. Reintegration assistance, funded by loans from the World Bank and from the DRC government, has been massively successful thus far: the World Bank alone has helped recollect 120,000 weapons, disarm and return 32,000 children to their families, and give US $600 to 100,000 former soldiers to return to normal livelihoods.
For a lot of these former rebels, life will never regress to those lows of war again.
By Bharath Srivatsan, BNett News
(Sources: Peacebuilding Data, Human Rights Watch, The World Bank)
"Background: The Congo Conflict." PeacebuildingData.org. PeacebuildingData.org, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
"Demobilization and Reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)." Worldbank.org. The World Bank Group, 11 Mar. 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
"D.R. Congo: Arrest Laurent Nkunda For War Crimes | Human Rights Watch." Hrw.org. Human Rights Watch, 2 Feb. 2006. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
