The War Nerd on Eastern Congo

His only posts every few weeks typically, and when he covers conflict, there is a glee that is a bit unsettling (he admits it himself), but he knows and understands conflict, both on the tactical level and the social level, to a degree I have not seen elsewhere.

Case in point, his latest post on the ongoing conflict in eastern congo:

Every word, every disgusting damn word, of these BBC and Guardian stories is bullsh@#. actually makes me sick, listening to these stupid lies over and over. The reason Nkunda’s little army (estimates range from 5000 to 10000 men) advanced into Eastern Congo this week is that the Hutu gangs were getting a little too aggressive about jumping ethnic-Tutsi villages in eastern Congo, killing the men and kidnapping women and girls as sex slaves. Nkunda knows very well nobody else will protect the Tutsi, for the simple reason nobody ever has. So he went in to do it himself.

(expletives expurged mine)

Read the whole thing, because it's a wonderful background on the whole region, Rwanda included, and it makes it clear that the continued operation of Refugee camps by the UN and NGOs long after it was clear that almost all of these people could return home without any major retribution is the real problem here, and not Nkunda.

Quoting again:

The rest fled into the forests of Eastern Congo. They’re the “refugees” that [BBC Reporter] Orla Guerin feels so sorry for: the frickin’ monsters who did their best to kill the whole Tutsi population of Rwanda in ninety days, like they were on one of those timed shopping sprees.

As I've said before, I lost most of my respect for the NGO's, and much in the way of the UN's refugee apparatus, when they signed off on running concentration camps for the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

If there were no refugees, they would not have a job, so they do their best to make sure that there are refugees.

Go read the whole thing.