Just as important, a critical study was released which, hopefully, will jar the mainstream press into abandoning its defense of gorillas and focus on the human beings who are being ignored, abandoned and betrayed in the DRC.
This woman died and world press took no notice-- Copyright keith harmon snow
A new International Rescue Committee (IRC) survey has found that 5,400,000 people have died from war-related causes in Congo since 1998. The study does not mince words and terms the war “the world’s deadliest documented conflict since WW II.”
This translates to 45,000 people per month who have been the victims of war, disease, and in this writer’s opinion, the malevolent, occult motives of conservation NGO’s.
The majority of these beautiful Congolese people died from non-violent causes such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition—easily preventable and treatable conditions when people have access to health care and nutritious food.
The mountain gorillas in this region have their own personal veterinarian and millions have been spent on studying, among other things, the decay rate of gorilla dung, while people lie dying on the forest floor and women and children are brutally raped and abused.
For once, the term “gorilla” does not appear in a report from this region.
Please take the time to read the 26 page summary here:
The IRC has conducted five mortality surveys since 2000. The first four studies, conducted between 2000 and 2004, estimated that 3.9 million people had died since 1998
This fifth and latest survey, covering the period from January 2006 to April 2007, aims to evaluate the current humanitarian situation in DR Congo by providing an update on mortality. Investigators used a three-stage cluster sampling technique to survey 14,000 households in 35 health zones across all 11 provinces, resulting in wider geographic coverage than any of the previous IRC surveys.
The mortality rate (CMR) of 2.2 deaths per 1,000 per month is 57 percent higher than the average rate for sub-Saharan Africa.
As OpEd News has consistently reported, 450,000 people have been displaced in the last six months of 2007.
Georgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and recently spent six weeks in Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction.
It is because of the current population crisis. Anything which removes large numbers of human beings from circulation is going to be encouraged by the governments of the world. Not openly, of course, but encouraged nevertheless. War, famine, disease, anything to 'cull the herd'.
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Watching (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 251 comments)
on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 10:45:38 AM
Ok, I am throwing PC out the door and going straight to the point. People dont care because 1. They are not my color, 2. Do I or will I be doing business with them and 3. Does not effect me.
We as a race on this planet, the human race, while we tell ourselves that skin color, status and so on dont matter, they do. The world does not care because they need gas for thier SUV and not have to have compassion for anyone who does not own one. I mean, if you cant empathise with what it costs me to fill the tank, why should I have any empthany jsut because you are starving to death. I had to fill my tank and can not get my nails done this week, now thats a tradagy. I think you get my point.
Until the individuals of the world as a whole see each man and woman as equals, reguardless of all the other things like skin and so on, pictures of a dead black woman will go un-noticed. To me, the picture says only one word, WHY?
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Michael Morris (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 290 comments)
on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 2:28:32 PM
The power elites think they can wipe out 80% of the world's population and still continue with their obscene lifestyle. What they forgot is their filthy corporations have already fouled so much of this planet that there won't be anything natural left to enjoy. In which case they are welcome to their living hell in the barren wasteland.
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memary (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 70 comments)
on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 9:05:38 PM
