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Intresting.
But why invent water .......?

good luck

Cuban pilots? :D

Hello Cuba,

Col Schramme was not your every day mercenary. He was a ‘colon’ who had a farm. He started because the ‘round table conference’ hold no standing concerning the position of al the...

The ethnic issue is in most cases not the root of the problem. If you look at the origin of problems in multi ethnic communities then you find in most situations that geographic and economics are the...

I think the end of colonialism happened at the wrong time and to fast. For congo there was a plan for 30 years to independense. It did not turn out that way.......

A good reed on ending...

Looking a bit at the Rwanda case study (before the genocide), again there is only the information of the FAR that is availlable. And that is because they where the ligitimate goverment at that time....

I remember something of that newsclip, I think it is patially online somewhere.


This link shows some of the activities of Bout at the Ostend airport.
At the bottem of the page there is a list...

Your welcome ;)

I think it is the same journalist from your boattrip in lake Kivu :D

Don't mind the flemish commentary. The clip shows a armsdelivery for Bemba in 1999. Bemba, in his best takes the journalist a long.

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Well, living in Europe, I'am not a fan of this evolution.
The next thing they will do is aplying for membership with NATO and EU.
As a former military man I would wish peace and stability for every...

Thanks for the link's, sir
I sure will read ambassador Gribbin's book.

I can't say mush about Kabila, He is the one that got away in '64.
In the end they all turn social, progressif on us....

Thanks Stan, I did not now her work was available in english.
I did not read her other books yet but 'the leopard's dance' includes sounds and smels.
Things you would never tel at home because...

The situation after the genocide toward the invasion of the old Zaire is not very complex and probebly predictable at that time. There was a security problem in Rwanda by the escaped FAR/militias and...

more at the link

If the FDLR whould leave where whould they go to :confused:

I Have no experience about the Indian schools, but there was a program in the 50's in the Britisch colonies. At that time it was very revolutionary. The colonies where about landownership,...

In there culture they have different vieuwes about sexuality. Even Mobutu maked it a sport to try to concor the harts of the wifes of his ministers.
So, its like Stan say, nobody cared.
When it...

Sir,I was not formulating criticism on your part or do I take it as criticism from you ;)
I only want to ad some perspective insight in the Rwanda situation. For people who have no insight in the...

I take your explanetion greatly into account, sir.
But I would like to contribute on the Belgian part in UNAMIR.

Unamir was created under a UN mandate. The origine of the Arusha agreement started...

Well, because they also pass the rabit to the Belgians, I feel inclined to respond to this without getting oftopic in this thread.
In the 60's they said that we interfiered to much in the internal...

I find this a litle bit shocking. If I read this correct then it is a policy that some military bases are getting there own security done by a private company in a conflictzone.
I'am maybe a...

hello Stan,
The problem is that the mining resources always have been the broblem. Everybody want a piece of that. During the cold war mobutu played everybody. After the cold war it was a different...

I now col. Marchal, but not in person. He wrote a book on his rwanda ordeal, but change his vieuws 180°. He got cortmarchalled for the rwandahistory, somthing he did not diserve regarding my modest...

good point. Regarding the culture in DRC. There are over 200 tribes. Even if a person is highy edjucated, he still has to conduct according tribal rules. This is the result of the mobutu regime. The...

later on the 'mixed brigades' got formed. As proven that became a fiasco.

grtz