Where were you?
Daniel Brett | 10.11.2001 02:06
For the past three years, I have been campaigning to get the genocides in central Africa noticed. Three million people will murdered in the Congolese civil war and nearly one million were killed in Rwanda. The international community and all those moral upstarts in the anti-war campaign simply sat on their spotty behinds and did fuck all - apart from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, of course. In fact, I heard certain 'left' groups praise Laurent Kabila for overthrowing Mobutu Sese Seko. The fact that the British arms trade was aiding the combatants only became an issue too late. Where were the 50,000-strong rallies, where were the rebel MPs, where were the entourage of activists, where were the Noam Chomskys, Vandana Shivas, Paul Foots and John Pilgers? I just think these 'peace activists' have jumped on a conveniant bandwagon jump-started by media attention. The African holocaust simply had no political capital for the superficial 'revolutionaries'.
Daniel Brett
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dan@danielbrett.co.uk
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