Quick, what has been the deadliest conflict since WWII?
A couple of hints. It happened on the continent we in the West are least likely to notice. We in the West essentially sat on our hands for six years and let the mayhem continue.
Okay, it was the Congo where civil wars are believed to have claimed four million lives between 1998 and 2004. Research has shown most of the losses were "refugee deaths" - malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
Last year saw the first elections in the Congo in four decades. The situation is improving but it's anything but stable.
Curious, isn't it? We've had books and movies about Rwanda but barely a peep about the atrocity that best the Congo.
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