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EU Must Intervene to Stop Mass Rapes in DR Congo

Giles Foden, University of East Anglia | December 16, 2008

Last week Ban Ki-Moon asked European leaders to intervene in DR Congo, admitting the failure of the peacekeeping mission. ++ The collapse of the Congolese army has led to mass killings and rapes. ++ The EU must take action in Congo as there are “good political as well as human rights reasons why stopping mass rape should be the platform for this intervention.” ++ Immediate pressure must be put on the Rwandan leadership and the possibility of a “buffer state on the western shores of Lakes Kivu and Tanganyika” should also be kept in mind.

 

 
Tags: | Congo | Rwanda | genocide | UN | EU | Monuc |
 
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Sun, Sep 27th 2009, 23:27

Kurt Fisher, New York University: Center for Global Affairs

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The lack of intervention by the EU and the U.S. to this crisis, in fact all crises in Sub-Saharan Africa is one constant that needs reversal. Nine months into the Obama regime it appears that Western governments disregard of of human suffering continues. Western relegation of peacekeeping duties to the African Union have little effect on stopping atrocities in Darfur, which has received the most extensive media coverage. With little exposure of the rapes in Congo then it is highly unlikely that enough public pressure will be generated in Western countries for direct intervention, especially in the U.S. where the citizens will have little tolerance for more global interventions with troops already mired down in two military campaigns, and America's endless foreign policy mishaps.
 

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