Re: China steps up investment in Congo as war in east continues

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, rab wrote:


>...
> The major difference between Chinese investments and imperialist ones
> is that the imperialists would want to bomb the place first with
> 'shock and awe' tactics, remove the government and set up a puppet one
> and kill a large ****tion of the civilian population before it
> invested.  Those who resisted these policies would be branded
> 'terrorists' and shot.
>
> Roger
>

In the Congo they actually did something slightly different.

Clinton sponsored an invasion by the Rwandan government that touched 
off the great Congolese civil war, the worst murderous disaster of the 
last decade, actually worse than Iraq. The usual estimate is that four 
million people were killed, not that far behind the Holocaust.

-jh-