DRC: Inside the world’s forgotten war

The UN describes it as “one of the world’s most neglected crises”. The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to war, but fighting has dramatically intensified in recent months. Just as the UN peacekeeping force is leaving after more than 20 years.
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The fighting is centred in the North Kivu province, where the M23 rebels, backed by neighbouring Rwanda, are fighting the Congolese army for power and natural resources. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting, many seeking shelter around Goma, the largest city in the east.
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[@tinterlight-iz5tl]

That poor kid trying not to cry at the end. This world has taken a wrong turn...

[@crow22zero]

God bless this woman who comforted him at the end 😢😢😢

[@katchdiamond247]

It’s so sad to see people are struggling like that because of natural resources that they have and never benefited from it.

[@aw7178]

@katchdiamond247 - They’re SoCalledGlobalists👹! MyBestRegards♥️!

[@dancinglittleleaf]

Please let’s keep talking about what’s going on in Congo & Sudan

[@yellow1one]

Agreed! But let’s C4 discuss who is funding these needles proxy wars and what they are after. Let’s stop pretending like this is some inevitable internal conflict. Someone is funding and supply the bullets and bombs to those rebels and those made within the EU drones that have been reportedly shot down. Someone needs to explain the Rwandan government’s role. These conflicts do not occur within a vacuum!

[@wizbit66]

not my problem

[@spudspuddy]

labour's david lammy said white saviours are not wanted in africa....ok so get on with it

[@pppp67567]

💛I know it's important

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

No demonstrations for them, though.

[@kaminip]

This is tragic - 7 million displaced and the UN is leaving? Who are the international forces doing nothing. What should we be doing?

[@arcan762]

It is their war

[@user-pm7fv9dt6j]

Crying about Israel

[@iceman4660]

The UN were told to leave.

[@bobbyb373]

Heartbreaking report, thank you Channel 4 for covering this when not many news organisations do

[@mayfieldnorris4280]

Sad that these countries can not get it together

[@vegan_omad_no1802]

300,000 families in this camp, absolutely heartbreaking, and now the UN is turning it's back on them and leaving!!

[@namucananamushi1451]

Where is the African Union here?

[@xena2559]

Supply them with condoms. No work, 8 children and help cry.

[@faithkerubo8357]

​@@namucananamushi1451why should the rest of us send troops...where is Congolese patriotism?They are 105M in number but want the rest of us to constantly save them...why can't they save themselves?

[@faithkerubo8357]

For certain countries,mandatory drafts should be introduced and D.R.C and Sudan are good examples....constant chaos

[@iceman4660]

The UN were told to leave by the DRC.

[@hollyexley]

Please keep covering this conflict.

[@frankssanze8363]

That kid, is me back in 1994 to 2007 I went through like them, poor my people very sad to see

[@pppp67567]

This is absolutely heartbreaking 😢💔❤️‍🔥 please please please keep covering this 🙏

[@h77137]

The Government & Officials 🤦‍♀️

[@lovazi]

UN and US are the source of this tragedy in DRC,

[@saitamadecember2806]

At the heart of the DRC conflict is Kagame and the western powers that support him, otherwise M23+RDF coalition would have been crushed long ago

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Dont worry Owen Jones will do a video next year.

[@evanangel2022]

The human family has lost their ways lord have mercy on us

[@00abm.]

😭

[@arcan762]

8 children???

[@Eric-ix3rx]

But what is the DRC government doing? Can’t it at least feed them?

[@amissijames1468]

This is the forgotten war the UK, America and the European Union are supporting the dictator of Rwanda Paul kagame in this atrocities. It very sad to people suffer like this when the so called the international community is just silent.

[@codswallop164]

I am you're sister from Yemen. Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Gulf states have plenty wealth and space to take them. The UK is full and remigration will eventually be a policy over immigration.

[@peterbisala6875]

One day this boy will take up arms and fight Rwandans army. This conflict will go on and on, until Kagame stops his evilness

[@joshuaabell2033]

I feel so saad and they speak Kiswahili my national language in Tanzania/Zanzibar i wish i could brign all the children i my place in Tanzania i can host them in my yard give them food let the kids got to school

[@user-jk6ux4gv7p]

Extremely pathetic. We pray for the war to cease, & all victims receive help & care, in Jesus' name. Amen.

[@ThankYouAndHello]

How are you surviving then, who is looking after you? We eat thanks to the camp leader and some neighbours. My little sister goes to beg for food, but they ignore her.

[@michaeljohnson5365]

The White man uses to be the Policeman of the World

[@xena2559]

And the other colour are invaders.

[@jospinfingy8495]

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR IN THE CONGO 🇨🇩 DRC: After migration of thousands of Africans ethnicity. In 14 to 15th centuries those Tutsi came from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Somalia 🇸🇴 then immigrated to Rwanda 🇷🇼 . That times they didn't have any land cause they were warriors marionettes utilized by the west during their wars. So at their local areas in Somalia and Ethiopia they got told to move away as they went to help white people in Europe 🇪🇺, then they came back in Africa and installed themselves in Rwanda then they spread later in Uganda , Tanzania , Kenya, Burundi, etc. No single one was in the Congo yet. Then they went to Rwanda and starting fighting local people there and change power all the times by war sometimes they were on power , sometimes local people. In 1950s , the lost war and power to local people so they fled to Congo in South Kivu , they name that place Mulenge. So that's why those ones in Congo are called Banyamulenge. Our former president decided to help them , which now is considered the biggest mistake our former President Mobutu did, he announced that every who was in the Congo 🇨🇩 DRC before the independence in 1960 became Congolese. So Banyamulenge became Congolese in that way as I have told you it was a biggest mistake every Congolese will tell you these. In 1994 , Tutsi and Hutu (local people) they started to kill each other, apparently they kill more Tutsi cause Hutu had more access to guns and matchetes those are history they teach every Congolese in school from primary to University. So Hutu lost the war because French lied to them to do cease fire and they tell those Hutu to go to Congo, the Congolese government accepted to welcome them, another big mistake because other neighbouring countries refused to welcome them genocidaire as neutral person as me, Hutu did bad by killing innocent babies we saw on the movies and history at school. In 1996, Rwanda government Tutsi and few Congolese politicians removed mobutu on power through war called AFDL liberation, every Congolese was happy cause Mobutu was a dictator and war there for 32 years. And the had of that Liberation movement AFDL became president of Zaire and change the name to colonial name Congo and post colonial name Congo before Mobutu. After Liberation in 1998, when the president of the country and of liberation told Rwanda government to go back to Rwanda they were angry and started a another war called RCD Goma. WARS IN MY DRC TILL NOW : as I said the biggest mistakes was to allow Tutsi Banyamulenge to be Congolese in 1970s , and to Welcome Hutu Génocidaire in the Congo as Refugees. Rwanda 🇷🇼 government through these wars used discriminatory allegations that Banyamulenge have been mistread in the Congo 🇨🇩, which is not true cause these people have been with US Congolese since before until wars and Genocide of Rwanda that's there are Hutu and Tutsi we used to know all are Rwandan our brothers and our sisters until their government brought these separation in Rwanda and in the Congo. Everytime Rwanda does wars in the Congo they came as to look for Hutu Génocidaires or they came to support Banyamulenge in the Congo 🇨🇩 so that they government can treat them well. First of all, we don't know who is Tutsi Munyamulenge and who is Tutsi Rwandan because they are all the same , speak same language, they all against Congolese governments all the times. Secondly, that confusion Rwandan government use it to infiltrate our government so that all the times when there's negotiations between Congolese government and rebellious Banyamulenge wars, they government of Rwanda will impose and infiltrate its military in our Government so they can have access to our government information and those Rwandais military need to be highly ranked as general ,major, colonels, and so on. In Conclusion, Rwanda government with its rebellious allied, and its genocidiary system comes in the Congo for several reasons: - Working for super power countries : USA, France, UK, Belgium, and European Unions so that they can give them Congo 🇨🇩 's natural resources for free or at cheaper cost. - Congo 🇨🇩 is so bigger and Richest country in the World when it comes to natural resources. -Divide Congo 🇨🇩 so that the poorest and smallest country , Rwanda can be bigger and Richer. - kill all Congolese if it's possible and take over - Send Rwandan citizens as Banyamulenge ("means Congolese Tutsi " apparently) send them as Congolese refugees in Australia, USA, UK, France, Belgium, Europe, North America, New Zealand, etc so that one day they can come and divide Congo or bring huge war in their favor in the Congo. They make sure once the Rwanda citizens arrive in the those developed countries they can do army so that they can go weaken the Congo. -Over half millions Rwandese have gone to those countries as Congolese when they are not even Congolese or Banyamulenge but Rwandais who speak Kinywarwanda or English. While languages spoke in the Congo 🇨🇩 are French as Official language, 4 nation languages: Kikongo, Kiswahili, Tshiluba, and Lingala. Plus , 450 plus dialects and every dialects correspond to language of each tribe. Such for your information there is no tribe in the Congo called Banyamulenge or Tutsi Congolese don't exist and will never exist. - Every Tutsi Rwandais want to be Congolese. - Gain more from war in the Congo by raping Congolese women cause most those soldiers or Rwanda origin have HIV aids. -Kill all Congolese if they can so Rwanda can take over. - Rwanda Government and its genocidiary system have killed over 20 million Congolese citizens since 1996 till present. - Rape all Congolese women : every 5 minutes these people have raped over 30 millions women, children and boys , men. - Causing Atrocities so that local Congolese people can leave their houses , lands so that Rwanda can take over. - Congolese Army cannot win any kind of wars against any rebellious group founded, supported and created by Rwanda because Congolese army is infiltrate by Rwandan soldiers imposed at so called negotiations which imposed by the west on profits of the west and Rwanda government. - Kill as many Congolese people as they can cause they West supports Rwanda government and make the media silent that's why there's a silent biggest genocide happening in the Congo 🇨🇩 cause Rwanda are killing us Congolese and the west and media are silent

[@invisiblek2854]

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[@Donrrr6ix]

Patrice lamumba was the real president

[@peterbisala6875]

One day these kids will raise up to fight Rwandans regime responsible of killing them. Then, they will call them genociders, but actually the genocide is being committed against them.

[@NK11NGA]

It’s good to show the world what is happening in Congo but it will be better to denounce UK US France and the rest of EU to stop founding Kagame to keep on waging war to loot minerals on their behalf.

[@user-kq1gk6bw8f]

*I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 4 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 20,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717354582 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/}--~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~:-◖..😢😢😢😢😢😢...-'*

[@bruceelieintwari30]

The DRC gvt decided to exterminate Tusti congolese and hence any suffering to the Eastern citizens. The collabolation with the FDRl& maimai is a big problem as they arę the nowa to violet people😢😢

[@amissijames1468]

Shame on you when you are spreading the false lies about the stigmatisation of the congolese Tutsi. In the Rwanda you have three tribes ,we all know what happened. While in congo they have 435 tribes they never had any genocide. Stop this bullshit

[@amissijames1468]

You are M23 sympathisers, we all know how you Tusti are so thirsty of blood. One day you will beg the congolese people for forgiveness. You are not big more than KIZITO MIHIGO.

[@Salman_Saho]

Victims of Christian terrorism 😢

[@xena2559]

What? Who opresses them? Christians? Perhaps they shouldn't breed to that extent if they can't produce food for their children. And get condoms.

[@user-kn4bp4rb8g]

FREE SAUNCO .. BIG BIRD

[@spudspuddy]

don't care, labour's david lammy said white saviours are not wanted in africa....ok so get on with it

[@hourbee5535]

Bring them to Britain as refugees please 😢

[@namucananamushi1451]

Plenty of Land in Africa. Let them come home to Barotseland

[@xena2559]

No. You invade Europe and demand everything for free. Get to work.

[@michaeljohnson5365]

This is a black thing e.g. gangsters ruling the country and then chopping themselves up like they do in London

[@kipapula6838]

Ukraine ??? 😂😂😂

[@kipapula6838]

World War 1 and 2 😂😂😂