[Gomer]

We interrupt this broadcast!!!!


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If a few Frenchies can liberate this country imagine what a couple of tank brigades could do. It is really too bad for the poor congolese that they don't stockpile WMD's, harbor terrorists, or have oil... we could have liberated them a couple million dead ago. Sorry bastards.

I know, I know... The security council has been dragging their feet on this one too, but we have showed them how we handle that sort of thing!!

God Bless the French!

France has agreed to lead a emergency 1,000 member multinational force -- approved by the U.N. Security Council -- to work with U.N. peacekeepers there, in an attempt to restore order to the country.

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Hard-bitten United Nations officials say that they have never seen such "horrific" conditions as those in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The officials who returned this week from the north-east of the country said that they had never witnessed such an appalling humanitarian crisis on such a large scale.

"We've seen the most horrible things in Bunia. Women who've lost their arms and legs, child amputees, men chopped to bits, women raped," U.N. Official, Carolyn McAskie, who returned from the Congo said.

More than 400 people have been killed in recent weeks in the north-east Ituri region.

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The International Rescue Committee, a voluntary relief organization, estimated there were 200,000 deaths since 1998 as a direct result of the war. Almost 2.8 million have died from malnutrition or disease because the war has limited humanitarian aid.

Early in May, 16 people, including two priests, were executed on a single day amid fighting between the rival armed groups in this small northeastern town.

Parishioners still pay their respects to the two Catholic priests murdered on May 10, when Lendu fighters retreated through a neighborhood and turned the parish church into a genocidal killing ground. The targets of the Lendu were members of the minority Hema tribe.

Taking shelter in the parish compound were 200 civilians from four different tribes when Lendu fighters broke in, according to Florent, who is a priest in training. The priests killed were Hema, he says.

Himself a Hema, Florent says he escaped by giving a Lendu fighter 75 cents. Sixteen Hema men, women and children were slaughtered outside.

"Most were shot, some were stabbed, others were beheaded, or chopped to pieces," he says.

There's now a mass grave for the victims.

Marie-Therese was nearly a victim. She is a Hema, but her husband is a Mudande. She and the eight children with her escaped savage death.

"One of them said, 'You are a Hema, I can tell by the way you look.' But another said, 'No she's not, she's from the Mudande tribe.' So they let us out," she said.

But Marie-Therese's 17-year-old daughter was abducted by a Lendu combatant and held for five days. She doesn't want to talk about what happened to her.

Another abductee, Bujuni, said she hasn't been able to sleep since witnessing Lendu fighters stabbing Hema civilians and mutilating their bodies.

"I saw the killing. I saw the way they removed the heart, the way they roasted it in a fire and then ate it," she said. "I saw it and it terrifies me."