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Conflict in DRC causes more deaths than Ebola but receives less attention
The Tyee: Ebola in DR Congo? This is not the real tragedy
Crawford Kilian, editor of The Tyee
"…[The Democratic Republic of Congo’s] The bad luck is that his Ebola outbreaks are not the real story. This is not when millions of Congolese have died by the Kalashnikovs, old machetes and famines over the past 20 years, while the rest of the world ignored them. … West Africa, recovering from two ruinous civil wars, was at peace when Ebola hit. It was the same for the province of Ecuador in DR Congo. In the provinces of eastern North Kivu and Ituri, violent lawlessness has prevailed for 20 years. … If this is news for you, you are not alone. Western media tend to complain about the sentences of Central and Southern Africa. … More than five million deaths may not hold our attention, but the very brutality of Ebola has made … If Ebola begins to spread, we can not blame Congolese or bandits. We can blame ourselves for letting a large and rich country fall into the hands of domestic and foreign predators. And even if the DRC and its allies repress this epidemic, the underlying anarchy we tolerated will remain, condemning millions of people to unnecessary misery and premature death with far less dramatic deaths than Ebola. "(9/5).
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