You’ve likely been hearing about the silent genocide currently taking place in the Congo where six million people are estimated to have been murdered. We must speak out against atrocities and the killing of innocent people wherever in the world they may occur.
Below is more information on what’s happening. ⬇️
#Congo #DRCongo #SilentGenocide #StopCongoGenocide
After watching this video attached, you can watch
@AJEnglish’s coverage to understand further:
aljazeera.com/amp/program/th…
Here is also read a brief text overview from
@AJEnglish below:
What’s driving DR Congo’s deadly conflict with M23?
On Tuesday, June 20 at 19:30 GMT:
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been facing political instability and armed violence since 1996, with an estimated six million people killed since the conflict began.
In March 2022 the M23 armed group launched a new offensive and seized territory in eastern DRC, displacing more than a million people. According to a
@hrw report, M23 allegedly executed scores of villagers and militia members between November 2022 and April 2023, burying them in mass graves in the village of Kishishe, North Kivu.
The report says that M23 has committed unlawful killings, rape, and other war crimes since late 2022, exacerbating the dire humanitarian crisis in the country. 171 civilians were executed in the last ten days of November alone, according to the UN’s human rights office.
In this episode of The Stream, we’ll look at how the battle between M23 and DR Congo’s government is affecting civilians and ask what can end this cycle of violence.
In this episode of The Stream, we are joined by:
Kambale Musavuli,
@kambale
Analyst, Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa
kambale.com
Ruth Omar Esther,
@omarruth9 Freelance journalist
Carine Kaneza Nantulya,
@CarineNantulya
Deputy Africa Director, Human Rights Watch
hrw.org
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If you’d like to help, one organization you might consider supporting is
@RESCUEorg
Here’s more info on how they are helping Congolese civilians who’ve been impacted by the ongoing violence:
How does the IRC help in Congo?
The IRC’s mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
We first began working in Congo in 1996, providing emergency assistance and humanitarian aid to those affected by violence and uprooted from their homes. We also worked with local communities to help them rebuild and to create education and health care programs.
As the country struggles to recover from decades of conflict and widespread disease, the IRC is focusing our efforts in Tanganyika, Kasai Central, and North and South Kivu by:
1) providing emergency health care, shelter, water, sanitation, and emergency supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in eastern and central Congo;
2) empowering communities to work together on peace-building projects aimed at conflict reduction and economic recovery;
3) training health and government workers, rehabilitating hospitals and clinics, and providing essential medicine;
4) providing counseling, medical care and legal assistance to survivors of sexual assault;
5) offering a range of reproductive health services to women and adolescent girls to enable safer childbirth and improved spacing between children;
6) ensuring girls are enrolled and succeeding in school, as well supporting them with informal education, so they can take control of their futures;
If you have further knowledge or context of what is happening on the ground, please share with me and I will do my best to amplify. If there are specific organizations you’d like me to highlight or share, I am happy to do so.
We must never forget about our brothers and sisters in the Congo. We are a human family and when some of us are being persecuted, all of us are being persecuted.
We must mobilize our power and privilege to help in whatever way we can. 🇨🇩
