There’s a real massacre going on right now in the Congo that the world is ignoring:
A Ugandan rebel group known for its horrific cruelties has massacred 189 people and kidnapped at least 20 children over three days in northeastern Congo, U.N. officials reported Monday.
The cultlike Lord’s Resistance Army carried out the attacks on three villages between Thursday and Saturday, according to Ivo Brandau, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa.
The group killed 40 people in the small town of Faradje on Thursday, and over the next two days, it attacked the villages of Doruma, where rebels massacred 89 people, and neighboring Gurba, where 60 were killed, Brandau said, citing reports that the United Nations received from local authorities.
A Ugandan army spokesman told the Associated Press that the attack in the village of Doruma included a massacre of people who had sought refuge in a Catholic church. Brandau could not confirm that account, but he said the manner of the attacks had “certainly been cruel.” He added that the entire village of Faradje was abandoned as rebels burned down 120 houses and looted shops and a hospital.
I have yet to hear of a special UN Security Council meeting being convened to discuss the crisis in the Congo, where innocent men, women, and children are being murdered for no apparent reason.
But then, since Israelis aren’t doing it, I suppose it isn’t new.
Welcome to Israeli Double Standard Time.
In any event, Meryl, it wouldn’t have happened if the Israelis hadn’t refused to withdraw from the occupied territories and satisfy the Palestinians’ inalienable right of return.
So you see? Israel is to blame after all.