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Africom ‘should have prevented LRA slaughters’

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By KEVIN KELLEY  (email the author)
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Posted Saturday, February 21 2009 at 14:13

They have since been pillaging rural Congolese communities and butchering anyone in their path. Some human rights activists have thus likened the Africom operation to “swatting a hornets’ nest,” the Times said.

Africom’s failure to ensure that civilians would be protected “would not have happened on any other continent,” charges Gerald LeMelle, director of the Washington-based Africa Action advocacy group.

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  1. Submitted by PScottSeattle
    Posted February 25, 2009 08:19 PM

    "Africom’s failure to ensure that civilians would be protected “would not have happened on any other continent,” charges Gerald LeMelle, director of the Washington-based Africa Action advocacy group." This is really ridiculous - the subtext of this criticism is that African nations should not be in charge of security measures in their own region. Why not hold Uganda accountable for its own actions? The U.S. does not tell Kampala what to do - any wag can tell you it only pays the bills and hopes for better behaviour!

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