Time to stand up for Congo war victims
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has received nothing like the attention focused on Iraq, even though as many as five million people have died as a result of war there over the past few years, and mass rape and human rights abuses are depressingly regular events.
The recent upsurge in the conflict threatens further to increase the carnage. I recently attended a Congolese solidarity march in Dublin at which I was asked to speak on behalf of the anti-war movement in Ireland.
