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Aired: Thursday, June 24, 2004
Congolese residents fleeing attack by gunmen, Congo (AP)
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The last time Congo exploded in violence, civil war ravaged the country for five years, dragging six other African nations into the conflict and claiming the lives of 3.5 million people. Last year, the warring factions in what came to be known as the African World War reached a tenuous peace.
But recent unrest in the country's mineral-rich eastern region threatens to escalate into full-blown war, drawing Congo's neighboring nations into yet another bloody, costly conflict. The international community is getting uneasy, and earlier this week U.S. and British envoys paid Congo an emergency visit to try to quell the violence.
Click the "Listen" link to hear about the recent bloodshed in Congo, and the U.S. role in maintaining the peace. |
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Duncan Woodside, freelance reporter based in Kigali, Rwanda, covering the Congo conflict for the Christian Science Monitor
John Shattuck, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, leader of a 2003 human rights delegation to Congo
Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, a native of Congo, former US Marine, former Voice of America broadcaster, former employee of US Embassy in Kinshasa
Judithe Registre, international development expert, Congolese director of Women for Women International |
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Reopening the Mississippi Lynchings Case | Listen
Forty years ago, three civil rights activists, James Chaney Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Ben Chaney, the brother of James Chaney, is pushing to have his brother's murder case reopened. He says he has found a federal prosecutor willing to prosecute the case, and says the Attorney General of Mississippi is paying attention.
In this radio diary, he recalls what happened the night of June 21st, 1964, and explains why he thinks it is important to reopen the four-decade old murder case.
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