Friday, December 19, 2008
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yesterday's news that China, for the first time since the fifteenth century, is ready to send Its fleet war far from home, to the shores of Somalia.
Two days earlier, the U.S. had put pressure on the United Nations for approval of a draft resolution to be presented to them, which authorizes the use of force not only at sea but also on land and airspace. Everything, to defeat the pirates.
The European Union had already moved a long time: already by the end of October its ships patrolling the seas of the Horn of Africa. Young first time in EU history.
The attacks on cargo ships have multiplied, so much to worry everyone. The pirates are able to obtain repayment millionaires, perhaps proportional to the loads of ships of this busy stretch of sea. Striking the ship's seizure lasted two months Ukrainian loaded with weapons and tanks, live officially in Kenya.
Now that China is moving to defend this part of the sea speaks volumes about the interest that you move billionaires: the likelihood that the Asian giant is determined to protect the cargo that export products and import the precious commodity in Africa.
But this concentration of warships over the world in a sea so sensitive not bode well.
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operations so you do not see many in Africa. Indeed, the joint military attack took place on December 14 event is quite unique: three national armies (Uganda, DR Congo and South Sudan) together bomb the camps where the rebel Joseph Kony is hiding with his soldiery, the Lord's Resistance Army .
On stage from twenty-two years, Kony goes crazy for a visionary but also shows talent as a skillful strategist. For two decades, keeps in check the forces of the Ugandan army, spreading terror in the territories Acholi of northern Uganda. He became famous for the numerous kidnappings of children, turned into soldiers or sex slaves, which earned him an international arrest warrant, issued in 2005 by the CPI. And in 2006 started negotiations to reach a peace agreement. Also in 2005, Kony left his refuge in South Sudan to settle in Garamba National Park, in the eastern province of Congo, an area almost uninhabited and without any state control. From there, he continued his forays, killing and abduction of minors. In April, he had finally come to an agreement, but Kony had put a condition to last inadmissible before signing: the withdrawal of the charges against him in The Hague.
are followed months of deadlock, until Sunday, the three armies have begun bombardment. After the initial surprise, began flocking to the controversy: while the North Ugandan activists protested that this would send to the winds three years of laborious and painstaking negotiations, the Archbishop of Gulu John Baptist Odama said that was unnecessarily put at risk the lives of many civilians and that "there was no need for a war." And today the Acholi Parliamentary Group - Ugandan opposition - to the mouth of the shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, declares that there is news from reliable sources that the bombing was a flop, because the LRA rebels had known in advance of the attack and if they were already gone.
Beyond all, are a couple of questions: How is it that South Sudan attacked Kony, after having been accused for years of support and fodder? And above all: how the Congo, with his army crumbling, unable to cope with Nkunda who sows panic in years all of North Kivu, but participating in an operation like that?