What?

Central Africa is a mess.

Rwandans massacre people in the Congo regularly even now. You claim to have been to Rwanda, have you ever heard of Laurent Nkunda? Enough said.

Rwanda is a textbook case of how victims can become victimizers pretty much overnight.

"What is most troubling about Rwanda is how (at least until Sarkozy was elected), France defends its role and also members of the government that initiated this genocide at the UN..."

Uhh . . . so what happened in Goma and countless other places in the Congo is less troubling to you than a bunch of lawyers arguing in a European courtroom?

I'm sure any Congolese the Rwandans have not killed yet are happy to hear that. Or they would be if the rebels had not cut their ears off.

Central africa is a thousand times worse than Darfur in terms of loss of life and limb. And the Rwandans are normally central to most of the trouble. By the way, when I say loss of life and LIMB...yeah...this is Africa we're talking about so take that literally.

Since we're on the subject of 'trouble catalysts' let us not forget France, US and the UK. All generally, only an arms shipment removed from a Congolese girl being raped by a Tutsi prior to having her leg chopped off.

Sorry about this rant, but man . . . Peace Corps . . . you work and work and work and in the end, France and the US have a pissing match and POOF . . . two years of your life pissed away. And MOST importantly, dear friends and children you taught to play jax 'disappeared'.

Instead of continuing this rant I'll just conclude with a repost of part of my last comment on Rwanda:

"Rwanda last year exported 250 million USD worth of coltan. Unfamiliar with what coltan is? It's the African name for columbite-tantalite. Still not ringing a bell? Well you can extract niobium and, most importantly, tantalum from it. The same tantalum that facilitates the use of that nice shiny iPhone you probably own. Don't own an iPhone? You still use tantalum, it's in every other cell phone too! As well as your laptop, and DVD player but I digress.

I was talking about the 250 million USD worth of coltan that Rwanda sold on the global market last year. Yeah, a curious thing though, Rwanda does not have any natural deposits of coltan. The only deposits in the area are in DR Congo. Where Rwanda is supporting Tutsi militias to 'protect the people from discrimination'. Someone must have forgotten to tell the people though, because every time the Tutsi militias approach a city, the people flee in terror.

I recently spoke with a Swiss friend of mine who stayed with me for a while after returning from the Congo and before she went back to Lausanne. She works for the UN and had occasion to go meet Laurent NKunda before the rest of the world woke up to what Rwanda was up to. Laurent Nkunda is the leader of these Tutsi 'protectors'. At any rate, as she traveled up the road from the lines of the government troops to Nkunda's, she noticed something at the roadblock he had set up that told her all she needed to know about him. You see, his roadblock was composed of the bodies of his victims, topped with heads..."

I don't know what troubles me MOST about Rwanda, but I know I won't find it in a European courtroom.