The United States should pay attention to Congo Sexual Violence as the same as Haiti Earthquake.
The United States should treat Congo the same as Haiti because they are both are disasters. In 1994, genocide was in Rwanda, it killed 800,000 people. Refugees tried to slip their way to their bordering countries of Tanzania, Uganda, and Congo. And right now the Genocide in Rwanda has stop, but the one in Congo is still going on. “Young girls are being gang-raped with Bayonets and chucks of woods, their insides ripped apart”. Another reason why the United States should pay more attention to Congo is that it is preventable. When a hurricane or an earthquake happens, it isn’t preventable, but a man-made disaster is preventable. The UN says this about Congo “brutality toward women [is] almost normal.” I for one want to see the end of this disaster.
Another reason why the United States needs to pay more attention to Congo is that ignoring them. Just think before the Haiti’s earth quake, we have been more interested to Natalee Holloway, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, and etc than Congo… This has been over a few years, but this has been happing since 1994. And another reason why we have been ignoring them is that most Americans haven’t heard the situation in Congo. The first time I heard about this was a week ago, and I couldn’t believe it. I ask my older sister this question and she just says what American is also saying. “That Congo problems have been on so long and that we don’t know what we will do.” But as I read an article it says that Congo and Haiti are equal and that they both should get the same amount of attention as Haiti, and I believe in that.
Friday, February 5, 2010
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