{"id":186,"date":"2009-04-08T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-04-08T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:51:23","slug":"a-wound-in-the-heart-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/04\/a-wound-in-the-heart-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wound in the Heart of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a very interesting book.\u00a0 Probably depressing at times, but also revealing.\u00a0 The link is to the NYT book review about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/05\/books\/review\/Gettleman-t.html?_r=3&amp;emc=tnt&amp;tntemail1=y\">AFRICA&#8217;S WORLD WAR <\/a>&#8220;Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe&#8221; by G\u00e9rard Prunier is one of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster. According to G\u00e9rard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/04\/man-with-scar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190\" title=\"man with scar from machete attack\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/04\/man-with-scar-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what is never lost in Prunier\u2019s sweeping narrative is the sense of scale. Several years ago, a humanitarian group made the following headline-grabbing statement: More people had died in Congo than in any conflict since World War II. Many people were skeptical at first. There had been the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Iran-Iraq war, all cases where the fighting was much heavier than in Congo\u2019s bush battles. But because the Congo war has been waged mostly against civilians, driving millions of people into malaria-infested jungles and cutting them off from desperately needed aid, the current estimate of four to five million dead seems chillingly plausible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=186&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a very interesting book.\u00a0 Probably depressing at times, but also revealing.\u00a0 The link is to the NYT book review about it. 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