Cork public meeting on the Congolese conflict, 26 June

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday June 17, 2003 18:55 by Fintan Lane - Cork Anti-War Campaign corkantiwar at hotmail dot com 087 1258325

The Cork Anti-War Campaign will host a public meeting on the current war in the Congo at 8pm on Thursday, 26 June, at Isaac's Hotel on McCurtain Street. All welcome! Speakers will include Bernadette McGonigle (chairperson of Amnesty International in Ireland) and Pierrot Ngandi (chairperson of the Congolese-Irish Partnership). There will be plenty of time for discussion. Between 3.5 and 4.5 million people have died since 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of war. It is a conflict that, by and large, has been ignored in Western Europe, and needs to be addressed by the global anti-war movement. What occurred in Rwanda in 1994 could recur in the DCR on a greater scale and the international community appears to be little more than vaguely interested. For information phone Fintan Lane at 087 1258325