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 Led by Adolf Hitler, the Nazis committed an unpardonable crime against humanity.Fuelled by hatred for the Jews, the vampires exterminated about six million Jews in gas chambers. Half a century after this gruesome tragedy, similar criminals, this time on the African continent are doing the exact same thing. Not long ago, the Hutus of Rwanda agreed that the Tutsis, ethnically related to the Banyamulenge of the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), were 'cockroaches' that did not deserve to live and therefore had to be exterminated. The genocide that lasted a mere 100 days claimed the lives of a million people!

 On Friday August 13, 2004 another shameful incident occurred on our continent. At a refugee camp in Gatumba, Burundi, ethnic cleansers headed by a self-proclaimed born-again christian and leader of the Palipehutu-FNL, murdered in cold blood well over 150 children, women and men in their sleep.

 The situation in Darfur, Sudan is no less disgraceful.A bunch of demented militias calling themselves the Janjaweed have killed about 30,000 people,forced a million out of their homes and left an estimated 2.2 million in dire need of relief.

 I won't even bother to ask the obvious question,that is, what has the African Union or the UN done concretely to halt this carnage? I would rather ask the less obvious one: when are we going to stop portraying ourselves to the world as a bunch of demented barbarians?

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