The Congo

Uganda LGBTQ Obscures Crimes Committed on Behalf of the U.S.

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 29, 2023 Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation’s history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as[…]

Rwanda and Uganda’s M23 Militia Reappears to Slaughter and Plunder in DRC; US Backs Rwanda and Uganda

September 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 7, 2022 Rwanda and Uganda’s M23 militia have returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), once again slaughtering Congolese people to plunder their resources. To understand this, we have to return to March 2013, after M23 had been terrorizing DRC’s North Kivu Province for a year. The UN Group of[…]

Was Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination the Most Important of the Last Century?

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo

by Maurice Carney, first published on TRTWorld, August 6, 2018 The assassination was a disaster not only for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but for the entire African continent. More than half a century later, its shockwaves still reverberate. The assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba on January 17, 1961 has been famously termed “the[…]

The Foundation For International Justice Is Anti-Imperialism

June 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperialism

Above: An Anti-Imperialist Mural in Caracas, Venezuela. From Telesur. by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, originally published on Popular Resistance, June 10, 2018 The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic[…]

500 Years is Long Enough! Human Depravity in the Congo

June 3, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Congo, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples

Native Prisoners at Boma Taking the Air, The mortality rate among natives at Boma [under Leopold] is enormous, the normal death rate being 50-70%, under favorable conditions . . . by Robert J. Burrows, originally published on CounterCurrents Blog, May 25, 2018 I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among[…]