Sec Hillary Clinton on Violence against the Women

Women can be the rock on which a freer, safer and more prosperous Africa is built. They just need the opportunity.
–Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, August 9, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPN-3bXt8w

Congo can count on Obama’s administration

The commitment that Her Excellency Sec. Hillary Clinton has taken to push for the resolution of the Congo crisis is encouraging for many Congolese people. It comes after a long silence and mishandling of the western policies on conflicts management in central Africa. For more than a decade, it has been as if some untouchable criminals, protected by some powerful lobbies or mafia, has managed to silence the media and world deciders to tackle the issue of speechless women, elders and children who are being raped by Rwandan militia ( backed by the Rwandan government), Rwandan rebels militia ( backed by Ghosts who are likely known), the United nations soldiers, and by a substantial portion of the Congo soldiers sent in the Eastern Congo.
In the near past, the Bush administration was busy handling the war on terror, and had seemed to ignore the Congo, although Congo has on its soil very dangerous materials ( Uranium and others) that could have fueled terrorists’ attempts to make weapons of mass destruction. Ironically, the very Woman of African descent, the sec Condoleezza Rice, did not show any moral committed attention to the disastrous apocalypse submitted to powerless African women in the Democratic Rep of Congo. Why? I can’t answer this because it is the past now, and I can only give credit to the Obama’s administration for the Humanitarian and moral initiative to speak out and show the spirit of determination to end the Armageddon that poor, speechless, powerless, and unarmed civilians are living in Eastern Congo, in this 21st century. That is how the world has compensated for the genocide in Rwanda by equipping the Rwandan government with the substantial, unequal weaponry, artillery, and military training to supposedly track down genocide militia hiding in Eastern Congo. The happy extremist government of Rwanda has taken advantage of it, of course, and has imposed its reckless domination policy in the central Africa region by sending, on multiple occasions well instructed Gang raping militia and looting squadrons, to supply the thirsty western electronic industry --the booming of laptop, cell phone, missiles launchers and aircrafts that are manufactured with the Coltan mineral from Congo.
That said, one person above all, and a very strong one, the US sec Hillary Clinton has stood up now, and said “ Halt to Gang rape in Eastern Congo”, “Stop to the cycle of mass killing in Congo”, “ Stop to corruption”. Corruption, yes, it is the case for the government of Congo and for the UN forces that have failed to protect the voiceless civilians. Documented complicity and corruption of the useless UN forces in Eastern Congo have dominated the media.
The move of the US secretary in Africa is to be praised, and I mostly trust her sense of leadership. As a result, I encourage her to press the Belgian and French governments who have had an engaged and suspicious role on the destabilization of the central African nations for decade. Belgian don’t want to release their grip on former colonies, they are still imposing their views on the constitutions of those countries, they still give orders and impose policies, and their corporate are at the frontline of looting the Congo. That is where the battle and fire will rise. I bet that those corporate, who now have been used to cheap and juicy mafia like deals with militia, who supplies them the Congo resources, will not step back without a fight. Those corporate networks don’t care at all whether there is Gang Rape in Congo or not. They don’t care. All they care about is business—profitable business. How will the US secretary of state tackle those predators? “I don’t know”, is my answer. All I know is that she has stated that the past will not be her focus, even though she recognizes the role of western nations in dirty politics of Africa, and she had asserted that she will work and stand for those who will work to eliminate corruption in the future. “Don’t take corruption from western corporate, and don’t corrupt” seems to be the powerful message of Sec. Hillary Clinton. Good luck and prosperous future to all Africans.

Pierre S