Wars and crime in the DR Congo

A cease fire between the goverment and the rebels didn’t hold. Weeks after fighting,thousands of people had to flee because the cease fire between th Congolese government and the rebels was violated On October 24, Congolese rebels led by renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda launched a renewed bout of heavy fighting in the eastern province of North Kivu. It came days after a tenuous week-old U.N.-brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart. During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the country’s Hutu majority killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, according to the United Nations. Rwandan Hutus over the border in Congo feared returning home, believing they would be targeted for revenge by Tutsis, who dominate the Rwandan government. The fighting between Nkunda’s rebels and Congolese army regulars displaced thousands of civilians almost immediately, the United Nations said. Many of the displaced fled to Goma, the capital of North Kivu, which borders Rwanda and Uganda. Nkunda is the leader of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP). Rebels from the CNDP clashed with U.N. peacekeepers and government forces in several towns and villages in North Kivu. . The question is, can the UN put up with such a catastrophe? There has been more 3 millions of people who have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the international community has done very little to stop Laurent Nkunda. Laurent Nkundais a rebel and you don’t negotiate with people who don’t want freedom, but tyrnanny. The Democratic Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960 and the country was far more better those days than now. It was one of the richest countries in Africa, but corruption has ruined the country. Today, it is one of the world ‘ poorest countries and there are millions of people who live for less than a dollar a day. It’s unbelievable for a country that holds some of the world’s natural resources. In 20 or 40 years, you can do much for a country, but I guess the leaders of the country hate progress or they just don’t care about their people, but power. There is aproblem on both sides because they’re not thinking about the interest of their people, but themselves. And that’s not how you build a country.