Well, his son Joseph Kabila is now running the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire. According to the Japan Times Online, "An accord signed last week holds out hope for peace, but the obstacles are daunting. Success depends on a commitment by the DRC government and all its former enemies, and a readiness by its neighbors to end their plunder."
Here is a discription of the human tragedy brought on by the failure of the international community to even lift a finger and to stop the killing:
Posted by Mike at April 9, 2003 09:51 AM | TrackBack
The battlefields in Congo's civil war are shrouded mainly by dense jungle, far from the glare of television crews like those that have swarmed into Iraq and Afghanistan.But in the last 4 1/2 years, the Congolese war has claimed at least 3.3 million lives -- more fatalities than any conflict since World War II -- according to estimates released Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee, a private aid group based in New York.
"This is a humanitarian catastrophe of horrid and shocking proportions," said George Rupp, the IRC's president. "The worst mortality projections in the event of a lengthy war in Iraq, and the death toll from all the recent wars in the Balkans, don't even come close. Yet the crisis has received scant attention from international donors and the media."