Reply #21: yes it helps immensly

[plurality]

From the reading of this I learned that:

1) Islamists won an election.
2) The Army, with the backing of the West, ended democracy and began interning Muslims.
3) A shadowy 'Islamic' terrorist group started killing civilians, giving the 'government' the pretext to begin killing more Islamist supporters.
4) Mass death and mayhem ensued.

Doesn't tell me much I didn't already know, an election occured, the West and power structure of that country didn't like the results, democracy ends and many people die in the process. Funny, nothing that backs up mobuto's assertion that all 100,000 deaths are the responsibility of the Islamists though. Of course maybe he's thinking that the really massive killings didn't occur until the 'Islamist' terrorists struck civilians first causing the government to go around killing more civilians, placing all deaths at the feet of 'Islamists'. Of course, me being that tin-foil hat wearing distruster of fascists that I am, I wouldn't put it past the 'government' to create a fake 'Islamist' terrorist group so it would have an excuse to start killing all Islamists. But that's just me, I know it's crazy to think a fascist 'government' would want to kill citizens that tried to vote it out of power, maybe I just missed my thorazine shot. :crazy: