Barbarism in the Congo, ignored

Why are unintentional Palestinian civilian deaths so much more important than actual massacres that took place in Africa?

Attackers wielding machetes hacked to death dozens of people at a church in remote eastern Congo, witnesses said Monday, and the Ugandan army accused the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels of the massacre.

A European aid worker said more than 100 people are reported to have been killed in the attack the day after Christmas and that the Congolese military put the number dead at 120 to 150.

Why the obsession with the Palestinian death toll, and the utter disregard for the death toll of the deliberate massacre of Africans in the Congo?

Three African nations are deploying troops to remote eastern Congo after reports that Ugandan rebels killed more than 400 people in a series of massacres since Christmas, officials said Wednesday.

A Catholic charity, Caritas, cited reports by its staff in the region that the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army has killed hundreds of people since Dec. 25. The rebels and the Ugandan government have accused each other of being behind recent attacks in the remote area of Congo, where the rebels have bases.

Why ignore the brutality in the Congo and concentrate only on the deaths of children in Gaza?

The rebel group has waged one of Africa’s longest and most brutal wars for the last two decades. In the past, aid and rights groups have accused the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels of cutting off the lips of civilians and forcing thousands of children to serve as soldiers or sex slaves. The conflict has spilled out of northern Uganda and into Sudan and Congo.

Why is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict weighted so much more than the many conflicts in Africa that has caused the deaths of millions civilians?

Jack’s friend has the answer.