Clinton Speaks Out on Sexual Violence

The issue of gender-based violence was a major concern of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she visited the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 11.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted as she arrives at the facilities of an aid organization in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on August 11.

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  • kajuladanny
    Aug 12 2009, 11:51
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    Firstly,i thank you for your article.My comment its that for the United States Secretary of state,Hillary Clinton, to visit [DRC] without enforce the president Kabila's government on prospective implementations such as establishing special court for human rights or similar to Rwanda.Its too vein to the Congolese.!!!

  • richerson88
    Aug 11 2009, 11:21
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    "The mineral trade funds" the war in the Eastern Congo?

    What a boneheaded President!

    Mr. President, you've got it ass-backwards:

    First, no trade funds anything. Returns on trades are used to fund personal or capital projects: from renting prostitutes for 'sex' to building projectiles.

    Second, Mr. President, asking the USA, the UK and France to stop the war is like asking a wolf to divest itself of its killer habits. Sir, it is the named troika that is funding war BECAUSE IT BENEFITS FROM THE EXTRA-LEGAL EXTRACTION of minerals in that part of Africa. The heads of State of the DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda, along with their militias, are the tools of this act of perfidy.

    And, Mrs. Clinton, while dancing to the riffs of Kwasakwasa and Soukous knows it, and there is nothing she can do about it---a dignified mule, therefore.