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"Madam President, as we leave for our Christmas vacations and our fat turkeys and whatever we eat in the festive season, we must also go with the thought that, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many people will die during the same period.
Nearly five million people have been killed there since 1999, and it is estimated that 45 000 – the size of a small English town – 45 000 people get killed there every month. As we celebrate Christmas, we ought to think about this and wonder whether these people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ourselves are still living on the same planet.
For twenty odd years or more, the United Nations has been trying valiantly to bring this situation to some stability, but only with 20 000 soldiers. How on earth can they manage to keep the peace with 20 000 soldiers? We need to help the UN do an effective job and arrest those people who are behaving with impunity and who are raping and killing women and children. We need seriously to end this now."@en1
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