Recent CPTnet stories

AFRICA GREAT LAKES REFLECTION: Taking the initiative from the actors of violence

February 14th, 2009
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In violent settings, nonviolent activists need to re-frame the action so that they, rather than violent actors, hold the initiative.

AFRICA GREAT LAKES ACTION ALERT: Call for compliance with processes of International Criminal Court

February 9th, 2009
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Africa Great Lakes CPT (AGLCPT) requests supporters to contact their governments and the embassies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to encourage compliance with the processes of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

AFRICA GREAT LAKES POEM: to Masika

February 6th, 2009
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Does the moon still shine woman of Congo
as your heart overflows tears
Can the moon light your sky
Has the spring run dry
Has the Light gone where no one knows?

AFRICA GREAT LAKES: Meeting Masika

February 6th, 2009
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I met Masika last month, when our Christian Peacemaker Team traveled to Minova.
Masika was with her husband and two daughters when Nkunda's rebel soldiers
came into her home in Buganga.  They shot and killed her husband and forced her to lie in his blood. Then 14 of the men proceeded to rape her. They also raped her daughters, one 14 and the other16 years old.  Both girls became pregnant from the rapes. Masika reported the rapes to the police, who did nothing.

AFRICA GREAT LAKES: Rwanda, DRC mining and war

February 2nd, 2009
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Last month, CPT visited two of the dozen large IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps that encircle Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).. One widow with two children told team members, “My husband decided to return to our shamba (farm) with our constant hunger in the camp. He was killed, probably by Gen. Laurent Nkunda's CNDP (Congrès national pour la défense du peuple ), rebel troops who control that area.” Another youth spoke of Nkunda rebel raids into his village for young men, some as young as nine, to serve as soldiers in that militia. Who is behind Gen. Nkunda, disputed head of one of the militia groups that ravages this eastern Congo region?