drc: More than three million Congolese dead, and no one notices

Three million, three hundred thousand people dead in a four and a half year war. Sound familiar? Have you seen it on the news? Have you heard about it being debated by any parliaments or congresses or world conferences? In less than five years, the equivalent of the entire population of Chicago was wiped out in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's the equivalent of every man, woman and child in Ireland being killed. Surely if something of this nature occurred, it would have made the headlines. It's too shocking and horrible to ignore, one would think. In this commentary, Michael Despines, now senior policy and programme adviser for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York challenges humanitarians to influence humanitarian policies that would result in real change.
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