Yeah, but they're Christians...

[Jolly]

https://www.westernjournal.com/70-christians-beheaded-church-media-nowhere-found/?utm_source=site&utm_medium=MSN&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=2025-02-20

[taiwan_girl]

Let's be honest - how much media attention is given to the various killings that in the DRC? I dont think it has anything to do with the religion of the people.

M23 massacre of 130 people
Otomabere killing
Plaine Savo killing
etc.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in Yeah, but they're Christians...:

I dont think it has anything to do with the religion of the people.

There's uninformed and there's looking the other way on purpose.

You're smarter than that.

[Axtremus]

Say, @Jolly, when was the last time you post anything about a mass casualty event in Congo that does not involve Christians?

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in Yeah, but they're Christians...:

Say, @Jolly, when was the last time you post anything about a mass casualty event in Congo that does not involve Christians?

232 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes and 21.3 seconds?

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly said in Yeah, but they're Christians...:

@taiwan_girl said in Yeah, but they're Christians...:

I dont think it has anything to do with the religion of the people.

There's uninformed and there's looking the other way on purpose.

You're smarter than that.

Jolly, you are correct. The massacre probably happened because the people were Christian.

But, the media coverage (or lack of media coverage) was not because the people killed were Christian.

Unfortunately, the part of the world just doesn't get media coverage at all, regardless of if the people killed were Christian, Islam, Buddhist, local religion.

THe M23 killing that I mention above was because of ethnicity (tribe alignment) rather than religion, but that does not make it less sad. And it was covered with about the same amount media in the west as the above.

[Renauda]

@taiwan_girl

Unfortunately, the part of the world just doesn't get media coverage at all, regardless of if the people killed were Christian, Islam, Buddhist, local religion.

That is certainly the case with North American media. Not necessarily the case with Western European media - at least the English language versions of non tabloid media. The BBC gives fairly good coverage to Africa in general and in particular, these various regional wars and sectarian conflicts.

[taiwan_girl]

Not directly related to the theme of this topic, but did not feel the need for a new forum thread. But an interesting analysis.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/14/failed-role-western-mercenaries-fall-of-goma-drc

In January, after the two-year siege of the Congolese city of Goma ended with victory for the M23 rebels and Rwandan troops, an ill-assorted group of nearly 300 white mercenaries were lined up to have their humiliating defeat televised.

“You must not joke with us,” barked Willy Ngoma, the M23’s military spokesperson, at one man he’d ordered to sit on the ground with his hands clasped behind his head.

The day before, on 28 January, the M23 militia and Rwandan soldiers had together captured the largest city in the eastern DRC. It was a spectacular defeat, not just for Congolese forces, but also for the Europeans whom the government had hoped would protect Goma.

and

The bulk of the mercenaries came from a second firm headed by Horațiu Potra, a Transylvanian and former French legionnaire, known for handling security for politicians and mining sites in Africa. At their height, Potra’s men in DRC, who were predominantly Romanian, numbered about 1,000. In security circles, they were known as “the Romeos”.

The operation was sloppy, marred by pay disputes and equipment shortages. It deployed ex-members of the security forces but also untrained recruits, such as supermarket guards, according to a one-year joint investigation from the Guardian, Romania’s Public Record and Belgium’s Le Soir. The Romeos also worked closely with local militias and participated in combat.

[Jolly]

You get what you pay for.