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Starvation and Poverty

The scramble for Africa never ended, it was renewed, renamed and redefined by the White supremacist power structure. The exploitation of Africa, its inhabitants, animals, flora and mineral resources has been carefully crafted, designed and implemented by western(White) governments and corporations. The scramble for Africa now includes other nations like China, India and Korea as well as Indonesia. The presence, influence and atrocities of Arabs against Africans can not be neglected in mentioning as well. It must be remembered that Arabs are not indigenous to Africa but are invaders who have material, strategic, military and other vested interests in Africa.

The legacy of slavery and colonialism that Africans were subjected to by Europeans and Arabs has not left Africa, but is heavily entrenched and etched into the African mind state and thus culture of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The ghost of slavery and colonialism will haunt Africans until Africans themselves stop believing and trusting foreigners and begin to be self reliant.

All the (Black) Governments of Africa have been co-opted by foreigners and their interests. These co-conspirators of the foreign powers that help oppress, rape and commit genocide against African peoples are the same type of peoples that allowed for slavery and colonialism to occur. A remedy for these types of people must be found.

All religions that are not indigenous to Africans have proved to be pitfalls and hurdles to true African liberation, the chief factor being that it was the oppressors of Africans that instilled these religious, moral, value and belief systems into Africans in order to oppress them in the first place. Oppression and persecution are hard but escapism through religion will not end the oppression, it merely anesthetizes the victim of oppression but the oppression still continues unabated.

The future for Africans at home and in the diaspora is bleak, genocide of Africans in the 21 century will rise to unimaginable levels. It is up to every single African alive to ensure that this does not become a reality. The African masses must fight off all despots and those who betray and compromise the African cause for personal advancement or acceptance by foreigners.

The western (white) media will not report the real facts or truths but have governmental constraints, agendas and biases.

Ignorance is not bliss, ignorance will get you oppressed, persecuted and killed. Time is running out my fellow Africans. Oppression, persecution and genocide of our people will continue until we refuse to tolerant them, remember its liberation or death. – MODOGRAY

States of Independence: The Scramble for Africa

For some reason, many of you think this is a game. Many have tried to reach the masses regarding the Black struggle but for whatever reasons you choose to ignore what is happening to our people. We are being killed on a daily basis! This young girl being roasted over an open fire is just one of the millions of cases of brutality our people face. You can view this at the 5:18 minute mark. It is time that we all get on our knees and pray that God helps us wake up out of this sleep we are in so that we may see the Truth. To awake to the Truth is a true Blessing. Ask and you shall receive! Please wake Up!

Prof Griff on Africom

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RWANDA

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Rwanda: How the genocide happened

Some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda’s genocide in just 100 days

Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.
Most of the dead were Tutsis – and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus.
Even for a country with such a turbulent history as Rwanda, the scale and speed of the slaughter left its people reeling.
The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.

A French judge has blamed current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame – at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group – and some of his close associates for carrying out the rocket attack.
Mr Kagame vehemently denies this and says it was the work of Hutu extremists, in order to provide a pretext to carry out their well-laid plans to exterminate the Tutsi community.
Whoever was responsible, within hours a campaign of violence spread from the capital throughout the country, and did not subside until three months later.

But the death of the president was by no means the only cause of Africa’s largest genocide in modern times.
History of violence
Ethnic tension in Rwanda is nothing new. There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, but the animosity between them has grown substantially since the colonial period.

1994: RWANDA’S GENOCIDE
6 April: President Habyarimana killed in plane explosion
April – July: Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed
July: Tutsi-led rebel movement RPF captures the capital Kigali
July: Two million Hutus flee to Zaire, now DR Congo

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The two ethnic groups are actually very similar – they speak the same language, inhabit the same areas and follow the same traditions.
However, Tutsis are often taller and thinner than Hutus, with some saying their origins lie in Ethiopia.
During the genocide, the bodies of Tutsis were thrown into rivers, with their killers saying they were being sent back to Ethiopia.
When the Belgian colonists arrived in 1916, they produced identity cards classifying people according to their ethnicity.
The Belgians considered the Tutsis to be superior to the Hutus. Not surprisingly, the Tutsis welcomed this idea, and for the next 20 years they enjoyed better jobs and educational opportunities than their neighbors.
Resentment among the Hutus gradually built up, culminating in a series of riots in 1959. More than 20,000 Tutsis were killed, and many more fled to the neighboring countries of Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda.
When Belgium relinquished power and granted Rwanda independence in 1962, the Hutus took their place. Over subsequent decades, the Tutsis were portrayed as the scapegoats for every crisis.

Building up to genocide.

This was still the case in the years before the genocide. The economic situation worsened and the incumbent president, Juvenal Habyarimana, began losing popularity.

President Kagame (l) and his officials have denied claims they shot down the president’s plane

At the same time, Tutsi refugees in Uganda – supported by some moderate Hutus – were forming the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Mr Kagame. Their aim was to overthrow Habyarimana and secure their right to return to their homeland.
Habyarimana chose to exploit this threat as a way to bring dissident Hutus back to his side, and Tutsis inside Rwanda were accused of being RPF collaborators.
In August 1993, after several attacks and months of negotiation, a peace accord was signed between Habyarimana and the RPF, but it did little to stop the continued unrest.
When Habyarimana’s plane was shot down at the beginning of April 1994, it was the final nail in the coffin.
Exactly who killed the president – and with him the president of Burundi and many chief members of staff – has not been established.
Whoever was behind the killing its effect was both instantaneous and catastrophic.

Mass murder

In Kigali, the presidential guard immediately initiated a campaign of retribution. Leaders of the political opposition were murdered, and almost immediately, the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began.
Within hours, recruits were dispatched all over the country to carry out a wave of slaughter.

Some Tutsis managed to escape to refugee camps

The early organizers included military officials, politicians and businessmen, but soon many others joined in the mayhem.
Encouraged by the presidential guard and radio propaganda, an unofficial militia group called the Interahamwe (meaning those who attack together) was mobilized. At its peak, this group was 30,000-strong.
Soldiers and police officers encouraged ordinary citizens to take part. In some cases, Hutu civilians were forced to murder their Tutsi neighbors by military personnel.
Participants were often given incentives, such as money or food, and some were even told they could appropriate the land of the Tutsis they killed.
On the ground at least, the Rwandans were largely left alone by the international community. UN troops withdrew after the murder of 10 soldiers.
The day after Habyarimana’s death, the RPF renewed their assault on government forces, and numerous attempts by the UN to negotiate a ceasefire came to nothing.

Aftermath

Finally, in July, the RPF captured Kigali. The government collapsed and the RPF declared a ceasefire.
As soon as it became apparent that the RPF was victorious, an estimated two million Hutus fled to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).
These refugees include many who have since been implicated in the massacres.
At first, a multi-ethnic government was set up, with a Hutu, Pasteur Bizimungu as president and Mr Kagame as his deputy.
But the pair later fell out and Bizimungu was jailed on charges of inciting ethnic violence, while Mr Kagame became president.
Although the killing in Rwanda was over, the presence of Hutu militias in DR Congo has led to years of conflict there, causing up to five million deaths.
Rwanda’s now Tutsi-led government has twice invaded its much larger neighbor, saying it wants to wipe out the Hutu forces.
And a Congolese Tutsi rebel group remains active, refusing to lay down arms, saying otherwise its community would be at risk of genocide.
The world’s largest peacekeeping force has been unable to end the fighting.

A People Betrayed

by Investigative Journalist Linda Melvern
Just published. Revised and updated edition 2009
Zed Books 2000 – ISBN 1-85649-831

A People Betrayed contains a full narrative account of how the genocide unfolded. It describes its scale, speed and intensity.

The combination of revelations about the complicity of western nations, the failure to intervene, and the suppression of information about what was actually happening, is a shocking indictment, not just of the UN Security Council, but even more so of governments and individual who could have prevented what was happening but chose not to do so.

The United Nations, which fifty years ago resolved that genocide never happened again, not only failed to prevent it happening in Rwanda, but, as this book shows, international funds intended to help the Rwandan economy actually helped to create the conditions that made the genocide possible.

The best overall account of the background to the genocide, and the failure to prevent it…the investigation is hers, and hers alone. She discovered so much that we did not know.
Lt-.General Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, (UNAMIR) 1994

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Complicités de Génocide

Liberia

‘Curse’ of Liberia’s resources

By Mark Doyle
BBC World Affairs Correspondent

Rubber is a key resource, but Liberia remains poor

A few miles outside Monrovia, capital of the west African state of Liberia, the humid scrubland gives way to seemingly endless vistas of tall, geometrically spaced rubber trees.

This is one of the largest rubber plantations in the world.

Drive on, and after a few hours you will find yourself in deep virgin forest full of tropical hardwoods.

It is the largest remaining portion of the once-great Upper Guinea Forest, which used to spread across west Africa.

Look carefully through the forest cover and you will find miners panning for gold and diamonds.

Soon enough, you will then come across a railway that was built solely for the evacuation of iron ore.

It leads to a vast iron-ore mountain range in the north of the country that is currently being rehabilitated with a $1bn investment.

Welcome to a resource-rich, but still dirt-poor Liberia.

The peace however remains fragile, threatened… most importantly, by the unresolved issue of who will exploit and who will benefit from Liberia’s natural resourcesLiberia resources report

A new report has highlighted the economic dangers facing countries that rely heavily on the export of raw materials.

The report concentrates on Liberia, but other economists say it highlights a problem prevalent in countries as diverse as Venezuela, Burma and Russia.

The study of Liberia – by the Canadian lobby group Partnership Africa Canada and a group of Liberian lawyers called Green Advocates – looks at the country’s history of plantation-style and mining-camp exploitation of tropical timber, rubber and minerals.

It concludes that the raw materials sector requires a major re-organization so that more of the population has a stake in it.

And it warns that Liberia has an urgent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address this issue, with its first democratically-elected government protected by a temporary United Nations peacekeeping force.

Elites

At first glance Liberia’s overwhelming problem has been its war.

But the authors of the new report – called Land Grabbing and Land Reform – say there is a wider problem.

They argue that the raw materials sector has been organized almost exclusively to benefit a wealthy elite.

Ordinary people have not seen resources turn into schools

Ordinary people saw the resources vanish – the trees being chopped down, for example – but did not see schools and hospitals coming back in return.

Liberia’s modern-day economy was developed and exploited by expatriates and the small elite of “Americo-Liberian” freed slaves who colonized the country in the 19th Century and ended up dominating the indigenous Africans.

“The elites and the government structures they erected,” the report says, “came to be seen as illegitimate, engendering first resentment, and in time hatred.

“The support given by rural youth to several of the militia groups early in the civil war,” the authors write, “is testimony to this fact.”

In this sense, the war was not the cause of the poverty of Liberia but a consequence of it, and the reliance on the export of raw materials was a factor in creating that poverty.

Some economists go further, saying the endowment of natural resources in both poor and middle-income countries is one of the “traps” that prevents them from growing as rich as developed nations.

North Sea oil became a “disease” for the Dutch economy

In his recently-published book The Bottom Billion, British economist Paul Collier argues that resource riches are rarely a path to sustained growth – except perhaps in places with a low population and massive windfall wealth such as the Gulf oil states.

More typical examples of the so-called “resource curse” are in countries like Nigeria, Venezuela or Russia.

Here, oil and gas resources – relatively easy pickings for the governments and elites – have “crowded out” the potential for economic growth brought about by manufacturing or service industries that have created so many jobs in countries like China and India.

Economists have a term for this crowding-out. They call it “the Dutch disease” after the effects of North Sea oil on the Dutch economy.

“It goes like this,” explains Mr. Collier. “The resource exports cause the country’s currency to rise in value against other currencies. This makes the country’s other export activities uncompetitive.”

Yet these other activities – manufacturing for export, for example – might have been the best vehicles for sustained economic growth.

The volatility of prices of other raw material exports from poorer countries – especially but not exclusively in Africa – is also not conducive to long term investment and growth.

Clear link

Paul Collier argues that resource wealth can also be a curse because it induces autocracy by allowing elites to buy their way into power.

But, he says, countries end up in a “resource trap” which does not generate the sustained income growth and security that can promote democratic accountability.

Liberian communities benefit little from diamonds, the report says

“Many of the middle-income, resource-rich societies,” the economist writes, “notably Russia, Venezuela and countries in the Middle East, could well be caught in [this trap].”

The report on Liberia says there remains a clear link between the country’s natural resources and possible future conflict.

“The fighting… ceased only in 2003 with the departure of Charles Taylor and the arrival of UN forces,” the report says, adding: “The peace however remains fragile, threatened… most importantly, by the unresolved issue of who will exploit and who will benefit from Liberia’s natural resources.”

On diamonds – the proceeds from which fuelled the wars in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone – the report says there has been little effort by the government to make the gems benefit local communities or the artisanal miners themselves.

It says the ministry of lands, mines and energy “has resisted engaging with civil society”.

This attitude, say the authors, is in sharp contrast to the forestry sector where there has been wider consultation on how to reverse the illegal logging operations conducted by foreign companies working under the umbrella of Charles Taylor’s government.

But the report warns that despite this there is a danger that the huge pressure to give viable employment to ex-combatants from the war has led to commercial logging, once again, being given priority over long term sustainable community forestry.

This highlights the dilemma of the government of Liberia. In the short term it has an urgent need to find jobs for hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people. Many of the men among them participated in the war.

The government feels pressure to get industries up and running immediately. But there is a danger, the report says, that many of the elite “see the return of peace as simply a chance to return to business as usual, an opportunity to recreate the Liberia they and their forebears knew, and exploited, for more than a century”.

On rubber, the report says the big plantations in Liberia have been extracting raw rubber for more than 70 years but have “so far not manufactured so much as a single rubber band in the country”.

It says a far-sighted review of the industry could begin a long-delayed shift to secondary processing and manufacturing.

The report recommends that the government of Liberia should hold a wide-ranging nationwide debate on the future of the country’s natural resources that begins with local consultations and culminates with a national conference chaired by the president.

Darfur – Sudan

Darfur in 10 Minutes: An Overview of the Conflict in Sudan

Attack on Darfur, Government sponsored Mass Murder, Genocide

I know you all like to rent from redbox, well this is a must see. The movie, Attack on Darfur, gives an excellent account on the genocide in Darfur. Our people are dying all over the globe. Our media is not going to inform us of what is going on so you must inform yourself and take action! To not get involved in our struggles means you give consent to our destruction that has been ongoing for centuries. Black people have been getting meaninglessly killed due to hate and greed. The black struggle is not just for a few to handle, we all need to get involved because there is too much work to be done on every level. We are so caught up in white affairs we do not tend to our own. Remember God said that He will ask, “What have you done?” We cannot depend on the UN because the so called peace keepers themselves are raping, killing and roasting our people over an open fire. How do we allow economic sanctions to be put on our starving Sisters & Brothers!!!! They have sucked all of our resources dry and then have the nerve to put sanctions on our people around the globe. We must wake up to the fact that black people, God’s people, are hated and are being destroyed as satan promised. Time is not forever! Everyone will be held accountable when judgment comes!

The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from the tribes of the Abbala (camel-herding Arabs), and the blacks of the region. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided arms and assistance and has participated in joint attacks with the group, systematically targeting the blacks. Below are some trailers of the movie.

This is the Horrible reality of our peoples suffering in Darfur, Brutal Murder

If we really are the world and we are considered equal, where is the Love?

Stay Tuned there is more to come!

Monday, October 4th, 2010 The Black Family | International Affairs

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