PROF DR ANDRE DEGEORGES ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DRC

"It is estimated that since 1998, when the war began, three million lives have been claimed from the war, malnutrition and disease (Duke, 2003; Human Rights Watch, 2003; World Economic Forum, 2004), the highest death toll of civilians since WWII (Human Rights Watch, 2003)…In early 2006, it was estimated that 38,000 people died every month from direct or indirect causes of the war raging on in the eastern DRC (Schlein, 2006), while five years after the official war ended, the toll has risen to 45,000/month (Maphosa, 2008), making this the most deadly conflict since World War II, exceeding the combined deaths from conflicts in Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur in Sudan (Schlein, 2006). Though, worse than Darfur, Sudan since CNN television is not regularly broadcasting this tragedy, for most of the world the crisis does not exist"!