Congo's Resource Curse & US Backed Atrocities
Media Roots Radio
Abby & Robbie Martin
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2015
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | Oh |
| 0:09.0 | and Earlier this year, a U.S. drone strike killed two innocent hostages, |
| 0:42.9 | one American and one Italian citizen near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. |
| 0:47.4 | The incident spurred outrage across the media, |
| 0:50.2 | resulting in Obama having to apologize for the grave error. |
| 0:52.9 | If only we could expect the same apology |
| 0:55.0 | for the thousands of drone victims across the Muslim world |
| 0:58.0 | since the advent of the war on terror, |
| 1:01.0 | most of which whose names were never so much as uttered |
| 1:04.0 | by those who sealed their deaths. |
| 1:06.0 | It's important to remember that in today's globalized world, |
| 1:10.0 | almost everything is interconnected, |
| 1:11.6 | and when it comes to war, conflicts are interlocked in disturbing ways. |
| 1:15.6 | While people rightly demand that Black Lives Matter in America, |
| 1:20.6 | Black lives have been forgotten in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, |
| 1:25.6 | where nearly 6 million people have died just in the last 15 years. |
| 1:30.5 | And every death by way of drone wouldn't be possible without turning a blind eye to the ongoing |
| 1:35.2 | genocide there. |
| 1:37.2 | Joining Media Roots Radio to talk about Congo's resource curse and how it relates to the |
| 1:42.8 | perpetuation of the military industrial complex is |
| 1:46.3 | Kambali Musavuli spokesperson for friends of Congo. |
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