Congo: Beauty and Destruction (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:22:24
Colin Thomas-Jensen is a Policy Advisor to Enough. In an interview with Jerry Fowler, he discusses the current situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the vast contrast between its beauty and tragedy and response of the international community.
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Piece Description
Colin Thomas-Jensen is a Policy Advisor to Enough. In an interview with Jerry Fowler, he discusses the current situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the vast contrast between its beauty and tragedy and response of the international community.
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on August 2, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Colin Thomas-Jensen, he's Policy Advisor to the Enough Project, and has just returned from a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Colin, welcome to the program.
COLIN THOMAS-JENSEN: Thanks for having me Jerry.
JERRY FOWLER: Colin, we haven't talked about Congo for a while on this program, so to catch people up, they'll recall that literally millions of people have perished since a conflict began in 1998, but there's been a tenuous peace agreement, and a year ago there were elections to create a new government that offered hope of stability. But recently in "The Economist" the headline was "Political and Economic Progress Has Stalled While War Drums are Rumbling in the Country?s East." How does that accord with what you saw?
COLIN THOMAS-JENSEN: As usual for "The Economist," I think it's fairly accurate as a broad strokes picture of what's goi...
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