Reply #9: what? easy to do when you stay in your borders? what are you talking about?

[Hannah Bell]

the congo war isn't confined to the borders of congo, & staying inside borders doesn't make it easier to kill 6 million people.

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War and the Great War of Africa, began in August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly called Zaire), and officially ended in July 2003 when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power (though hostilities continue to this day).

The largest war in modern African history, it directly involved eight African nations, as well as about 25 armed groups.

By 2008 the war and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people, mostly from disease and starvation, making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II. Millions more were displaced from their homes or sought asylum in neighboring countries.<6>

The war and the conflicts afterwards are, among other things, driven by the trade of conflict minerals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War


The First Congo War (November 1996 to May 1997) was a revolution in Zaire that replaced President Mobutu Sésé Seko, a decades-long dictator, with rebel leader-cum-President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Destabilization in eastern Zaire that resulted from the Rwandan genocide was the final factor that caused numerous internal and external actors to align against the corrupt and inept government in Kinshasa. The new government renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though it brought little true change. Kabila alienated his allies and failed to address the issues that had lead to the war, ultimately allowing the Second Congo War to begin in 1998, mere months after coming to power. In fact, some experts prefer to view the two conflicts as one war.<5>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Congo_War

Mobuto = US proxy.

Kabila = US proxy.