
When opportunity presented itself in the form of widespread warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean military leaders were quick to provide troops in exchange for permission to establish Zimbabwean corporations to exploit Congolese raw materials.
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Air Commodore Mike Tichafa Karakadzai,
Air Marshall Perence Shiri,
Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo,
Burundi,
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi,
Colonel Tshinga Dube,
Congo gold and diamonds,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
DRC President Laurent Kabila,
economic "structural adjustments",
Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP),
elites,
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
General Vitalis Musunga Gava Zvinavashe,
Jean Damu,
John Mikembe,
Joint Operations Command,
Joseph Kabila,
Morgan Tsvangirai,
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
National Security Council,
personal enrichment of military leaders,
political elite,
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe,
Rhodesia,
Rwanda,
Sidney Sekeramayi,
Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongo),
Thamer Bin Said Ahmed Al-Shanfari,
Uganda,
wealth accumulation,
Western economic sanctions,
ZANLA Deputy Commander Solomon Mujuru,
ZANU-PF,
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA),
Zimbabwe Executive Vice President Grace Mujuru,
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

Some of us remember the first elected prime minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, as he brought to the world the vision of a prosperous Congo where this beautiful land will benefit the Congolese people and not world corporations. A modern day holocaust is occurring in this picturesque land of abundance.
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"Break the Silence" movement,
Carter Center,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Friends of the Congo,
International Crisis Group study "Consolidating the Peace",
Joseph Kabila,
Kambale Musavuli,
Patrice Lumumba,
President Paul Kagame,
President-elect Barack Obama,
Rumble in the Jungle,
Rwanda,
Zaire

I know no honest, informed Congo watchers who doubt that Gen. Laurent Nkunda and his ruthless militia are tools of the U.S. and its African proxy, Rwanda, in the imperial resource war now raging in Eastern Congo.
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African World War,
Ann Garrison,
Barack Obama,
castration,
Congo,
Cynthia McKinney,
Friends of the Congo,
Goma,
Joseph Kabila,
Kambale Musavuli,
Kivu Province,
Laurent Nkunda,
looting,
Maurice Carney,
mineral riches,
murder,
Pambazuka News,
rape,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Embassy,
San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper,
torture