Congo Basin Genocide: Truth and Reconciliation?


	Congo Basin Genocide: Truth and Reconciliation?

nedhamson1

9-1-2009 5:24 PM

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burundi, congo, killing fields, rwuanda, uganda

nedhamson1 says:

Read and wonder will the world stand by the next genocide - well it already is taking place in the Sudan. Figuring out why we let this happen and how we play into it is step one for preventing the next one and ending this one - no?

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