The Congo literally is too rich for its own good. It
boasts “abundant deposits of copper, gold, diamonds, cobalt, uranium, coltan,
and oil,” but, in tradition of the country, laid out in this article, they
continue to be obtained in an extractive manner that destroys not only wallets
but, more importantly, lives. Dictators and the elite “(bleed) the country of
billions of dollars”, while “nothing but misery and death (has been brought) to
the very people who live on top” of the whole country's potential fortune and future.
This is the true shame of the situation. Most of our
focus is on economic failure, as if an economy is a life to mourn. That
situation is of course lamentable and leads to wide scale “human suffering” (as
we saw in the downfall of South America and the unfathomable toll of the slave
trade) , but we get wrapped up in the big picture and fail to connect with the individual
human loss like Innocent.
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