Over Six Million Slaughtered, Silence Again About Genocide - The Congo

One day in the future, if humanity survives the carnage it inflicts upon the planet and each other, and if in the wake of that human caused misery somehow a better human emerges, maybe then humanity will consider how over 6 million were killed and no one lifted a finger. Rwanda had its terrible, preventable genocide in the 1990's, when hundreds of thousands of people were hacked to death by machetes because of their ethnicity. The Democratic Republic of the Congo became the next stage for genocide. Many countries had a hand, including Rwanda, Uganda, the west and others, in which rival militias and invading armies proceeded to murder and rape on a mass scale. And all the while the people of the Congo, and the Congo itself, were being destroyed, few to no one lifted a finger to stop the genocide and mass rape, let alone even report to the world the terrible events that were unfolding. The Congo is the world's second largest rain forest. It is, like the Amazon, the lungs of the plant. It is home to incredibly rich biodiversity. Three of the five great ape species, not including homo sapiens, live in that rain forest, although they too are being decimated. In one of the richest places on earth live some of the world's most impoverished people. In one of the richest places on earth exists one of the most unsafe place for women. Millions have been slaughtered, millions have been raped, and barely anyone even knows about it, let alone tried to stop the carnage. Rape and murder in the Congo continue. The forest and its wildlife continues to be destroyed. The world continues to ignore the Congo. Meanwhile, the minerals that fuel the high tech explosion continue to be extracted by Congo slave labor. The minerals that fuel the high tech industries of the west, of China and elsewhere, still finances warlords and murderers. Logging and the bush meat trade continues to destroy the forest and its wildlife. The Congo is being destroyed, its people exploited, murdered, raped. The often low tech mining extraction of the minerals the high tech world needs relies on some of the most exploited workers in the world. The nightmare of the Congo does not stop.