GS101 Lecture Notes - Million Dead, Conditionality, Group Of 77
Document Summary
Congo is one of the most mineral rich countries in the world. Death toll is nearly surpassing the holocaust. Congo was given to king leopold iii as his personal property and he made over a billion dollars in wealth from enslaving the residents. The ongoing conflict has been mainly over the immense resources. Slavery (1885-1908), colonialism, independence (1950), assassination (1951), Dictatorship (30 years), war (1998-2002), 6 million dead (2002-present: all over the past 125 years. Rape has been used as a war tactic to break women and communities. Un and us governments knew about the rwanda attack on the congo almost in real time. The process of withdrawing from colonies took so long because the powers didn"t want their colonies to be independent: worries about countries turning to communism, worried about the strength of countries in independence. Un considers 16 territories with 2 million people to still be living under colonial rule.
