'State authority must be restored to Ituri'

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Kinshasa - President Joseph Kabila is determined to see the authority of the state restored to the Democratic Republic of Congo's strife-torn Ituri region, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Saturday.

"The problem in Bunia is not one of military insecurity, but of common law and order, like in our countries and cities," Alliot-Marie told reporters following talks with the DRC's leader in the capital Kinshasa.

The French minister and her Belgian counterpart Andre Flahaut were in the country to review the progress of the French-led European Union peacekeeping force, which deployed in the town of Bunia, in north-eastern Ituri, in June.

The EU peacekeeping force, dubbed "Operation Artemis" was rushed in after United Nations troops, known by their French acronym MONUC, failed to quell a wave of ethnic violence between members of the Lendu and Hema communities.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1059898501357B236&set_id=1

I must confess, I don't know what's going on in Ituri but I'm sure people don't just kill each other for fun. Someone is stealing the others land or resources or someone isn't being treated fairly. The same reasons people resort to terrorism becaue they don't have the power to legally settle their grievances. (Wonder if anyone taught Junior that at Yale?)


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[bemildred]

1. It really hard to know who the good guys are here.

If there are any; but there is some truth in the idea that a
corrupt order might be better than chaos. Or maybe not. It
is, FWIW, just what you say, tribal warfare, rapine, pillage, and
stealing of land and resources.

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2. The ituri are also known as pgymies. They have been at odds with the Bant

for as long as I remember. They were also at war with the Watusi several decades back. They cleaned their clocks. It is easier for an four ft Ituri to hide than a seven ft Watusi.

The ituri are looked upon by the Bantu as clever chimps, and the Ituri have their less than glowing assessment of the Bantu.

An Ituri story.

A Bantu came to an Ituri and said, "my sister bleeds every month and I cannot get it to stop. I have stuffed leaves up her, but she continues bleeding." The Ituri said, "don't worry I will show you how to stop the bleeding." The Ituri took the sister into his hut, the next day he returned her. He told the Bantu, now the bleeding will stop.

A month later the Bantu came back and said, "she has stopped bleeding, how did you do that"? The Ituri sat him down and explained it. That is how the Bantu learned how to have babies.