half a holocaust

 3 million brothers and sisters perished without being noticed by the global media. I wonder whether racism has something to do with the "not noticing"                              

 

 from International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/18550.htm

 

                                  Toll of Congo War Is Called Apocalyptic
                                   Karl Vick Washington Post Service
                                   Wednesday, May 2, 2001

 

                                   LUSHEBERE, Congo As foreign armies pull back from Congo's
                                   furthest reaches and aid agencies move forward, the human toll of
                                   the country's 32-month-old war is being sketched in apocalyptic
                                   terms beyond any previously documented in an African conflict.

 

                                   According to a new "death census" conducted by a private
                                   American aid agency, the number of lives claimed by the Congo
                                   war now approaches three million.

 

                                   The survey by the New York-based International Rescue
                                   Committee was conducted only in the rebel-held eastern half of
                                   the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where most of the fighting
                                   and even more of the accompanying hardship has taken place. The
                                   toll would almost surely be higher if the government-held western
                                   half were included.

 

                                   The survey attributes a relatively small proportion of the deaths - a
                                   few hundred thousand - to the battles waged by the Congolese
                                   Army, its rebel foes and troops from the half-dozen other African
                                   countries that have fought on both sides of the conflict.

 

                                   The vast majority of deaths have resulted from starvation, disease
                                   and deprivation on a scale emerging only as aid workers reach
                                   areas that have been cut off by fighting and lack of roads