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| Four Dead in Clashes in DR Congo National Park |
| 2014-01-13 |
| [An Nahar] Four people were killed and two seriously injured in a clash between national park rangers and suspected Rwandan rebels in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the park said Sunday. The Virunga national park, home to DR Congo's only population of endangered mountain gorillas, said one of its rangers died in a battle on Saturday morning that also claimed the lives of three rebel fighters. Two other guards were maimed and one rebel was captured. Virunga said in a statement that the clash was with the FDLR, a Rwandan rebel group that includes the remnants of the militia who carried out the 1994 genocide. "The attack is thought to have been carried out in retaliation against the rangers' efforts to prevent the militias from regaining control of an area close to the habitat of the critically endangered mountain gorillas," the park said. Virunga national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, was founded in 1925, making it Africa's oldest national park. It is the most environmentally diverse area on the African continent, home to thousands of rhinos and 200 endangered mountain gorillas. |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-13 05:52 |