The Conflict Of The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Do you ever think about how lucky you are? You should. You live in one of many countries that cares for its citizens. Living in America you have opportunities that other countries will never have. For example, there are many third world countries that struggle daily to keep multiple citizens alive. These citizens have to fight for their lives and sometimes never get any form of medical help. Whereas in America we have many different resources that allow us to be a strong world power, if we lost citizens by the hundreds weekly we would be a country in need. Many countries in Africa are considered third world countries because they are overpopulated and under developed.

There were no jobs even if you were educated,” a 32 year-old male ex-combatant said (Archibald and Richards 8). So, youths have one choice in what they do around chiefs and youth leaders, and it is to run away from everything. Though, the choice is a poor decision, and now, instead of a semi-stable life, they lead a life of fighting and violence. Now, the women of Sierra Leone are kept at the bottom of the social ladder by customary law (Archibald and Richards 10). To be kept at the bottom because of being a different gender is belittling; barely being counted as a human being with not even a third of the rights one should have. The population of both youth and women seem to be in a process of characterized as the invention of human rights ‘from below’ (Archibald and Richards 2). A Luanda-based British diplomat did say the international community could intervene and help the youth and women, but it will not (Gordon 1). No one would come to aid these people, to help them through the rough patches in their society, and, in all, they were left to solve their own problems. Life in Sierra Leone was not close to being at a stable level, it was getting rougher to live in the country. The people of Sierra Leone were getting treated badly as the economy in the country was lowering.

Over a period from 1960-1965, the first Republic of the Congo experienced a period of serious crisis. There was a terrible war for power that displayed senseless violence and the desperation to rule. There were many internal conflicts among the people. The country eventually gained independence from Belgium. For many countries this would be a time for celebration. Unfortunately for the people of the Congo this became a time to forget. Almost immediately after independence and the general elections, the country went into civil war. Major developed cities like Katanga and Kasai wanted to be independent from the Lumumba government. Different factions started to fight the government and Katanga and Kasai tried to secede from the rest

It focuses on examining how violence impacts members of a specific gender, but most often focuses on its unique impacts on women. Authors such as Moon focus on how prostitution (including cases of forced prostitution in Japan) impact women specifically, as well as Moon and MacKinnon pointing to rape as a specific and horrific example of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV). However, as Jones notes, gendering genocide has specific implications for men as well. We find that men of “military” age are proportionally more often the victims of direct violence, particularly as it pertains to our two cases in Serbia and

According to ICRtoP, the Democratic Republic of Congo is reported to be the “rape capital of the world” with an estimated 15,000 rape cases in the Congo’s eastern provinces alone. Rape is a tool of war used by the various armed forces in the Congo in order to “create instability in

Throughout King Leopold’s 44 year reign of the Congo, he managed to diminish his population in half, causing 8 to 10 million Africans to lose their lives. (USSLave) Some were worked to death, some lost their lives during transportation because of malnutrition, but many other’s died due to diseases that were brought over by the Europeans. The main theme that reappeared throughout Hochschild’s novel was Leopold’s goal of colonialism and how he was going to use his African people to accomplish it. This is seen when Leopold analyzes Livingstone, Stanley, and other explorers. Hochschild states, “As king of a small country with no public interest in colonies, he recognized

The video focuses on events in the Republic of the Congo, but it’s commonplace where there are chaos and lawlessness. Consider how people changed in the wake of hurricane Katrina, cultural norms eroded overnight and the criminal action began, so far there have been over 140 reported rapes and gang rapes. During the fight in Africa, these actives are normal. Without legal repercussion, conflict rape is considered “an unchangeable externality of war (Haddad, 2002).” As a weapon it’s has a psychological effect on the families and communities involved. It instills fear in both genders because of the fear of it being done to them and as important to their loved ones. The uncertainty of that’s happened to the people that go missing in the night is unimaginable. Another disturbing intent of people in power is to remove the bloodline of the opposed (aka ethnic cleansing), this is done through forced breeding, mutilation of females, eliminating future generations and ultimately driving the unwanted from the territory (Isgandarova, 2013). The third use of a weapon if creating fear to destabilize communities makes are taken and forced into combat roles while females are taken for the pleasure of their captors. This fear paralyzes people preventing them from taking up arms or collaborating to stop the offenses. With fewer adolescent and young adults, generations become weaker

Imagine every person living in the state of Minnesota being killed for no reason. Five and a half million people killed because someone doesn’t approve of how they look. That is what it is like with genocide, innocent people killed because their physical characteristics or ethnicity doesn’t please others. A genocide that killed five and a half million recently began in the African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and still continues to this day. The genocide that took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo began in 1996, was provoked by the Rwanda genocide, fought between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and is the deadliest conflict since World War II.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has a very violent history and is still filled with conflict to this day. Ever since the Democratic Republic of Congo (known as Zaire until 1996) gained independence in 1960, there were violent plays for power and two wars occurred. Since armed forces have appeared, they have committed (mainly sexual) crimes against the people in this country. In 2006, the South Kivu Province was reported to have more than 27,000 sexual assault occur. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Nothing in this declaration may be interpreted as implying for any state, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any rights and freedoms set forth herein (30).”

The legacy of colonization in the African country of Congo has been, to say the least, devastating. Both the people and the economy had been dealt a low blow by King Leopold of Belgium’s invidious, violent regime (1885-1908). Congolese were subject to horrors by Leopold’s soldiers so barbaric that Europeans did not believe the reports of savagery at first. so After that, the Belgian government “reluctantly” took over Congo, finally granting independence to it in the early 1960s. These distressing times caused multiple fractures in the government, social hierarchy, agriculture, and economy. In the short term, women all over Africa, including Congo, lost much of their power - both economic and social. However, a lasting effect of Leopold’s rule

Women between the ages of 15 to 44 are at a greater risk of rape than cancer, malaria and a motor accident (Wood, 2009). According to Amnesty International (2014), 40 women are raped everyday in South Kivu regarding the on-going armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sexual violence during armed conflict has historically been known as one of the legitimate spoils of war (Brown, 2011). Spoils of war result from defeating a population and claiming benefits due to its instability. Thus violence towards civilian’s asserts dominance, however the implications involved must be rooted to deeper consequences to a nation. In this essay I will argue that rape is perpetrated against women

Investigative journalism is important given that most of their work centers on interviews of aid workers, community leaders, and women combined with fieldwork in Eastern Congo. I used investigative journalism because it is a relatively unbiased source. The importance of unbiased is critical in this project given there are issues with the reporting from international aid organizations working in the region. The stress on unbiased is because of international aid organizations refusal to believe that their data reporting is inaccurate. International aid organization is biased in their refusal to understand if their data is inaccurate. The problem is that most individuals working in Congo know that data collection is typically not accurate. Inaccuracies are due to difficult conditions for data collection, such as poor infrastructure. Interesting, given difficult conditions, international aid organization made the assumptions that the data is likely higher, however, with no evidence to support that claim. Ultimately, I am using the research, reporting, and investigative journalism to show how women and communities were able to convince international aid organization that mass rapes were a more serious problem to gain access to international

Sierra Leone gained its independence in 1961 but it’s not as independent as it seems. Known as the Blood Diamond of Africa is said to be one of the most dangerous places in the world. Of its top exports, diamonds are number one. Who knew one diamond could cause so much chaos especially in the land of peace and harmony, causing its own people to kill one another. Blood diamonds are infamous and play a dangerous role in the lives of many people.

The funding of The Dominican Republic of Congo is in order to secure the safety of the everyday citizen in the Dominican Republic of Congo. It will always be an ongoing war trying to help these kids get out of soldiery. Throughout the paper I have dignified the need of the continuing of funding for this country. By financially funding Democratic Republic of Congo we are saving thousands of lives and making close allies with this country. The $202 million dollars we’re spending every two years is worth the money. And by doing this we are possibly saving a child from child soldiery.

To analyze rape as a weapon appears to be complex. This complexity is justifiable because of different factors, which come into play at different scales or levels. However, competing theories can still attempt to explain rape as a weapon with its pervasiveness in the DR Congo. Humphreys (2017), provides theoretical insights into how to understand and analyze the motives of players fighting for power or dominion. In regard to these theoretical insights, Humphreys (2017), has identified strategy without strategizing, psychological games, and the tragedy of the commons among others. These theoretical insights focus on the predictions of the actors’ actions. In this study, however, I will use psychology game to explain the pervasiveness