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Thread #103280   Message #2122620
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
09-Aug-07 - 02:10 PM
Thread Name: Tintin In The Congo
Subject: RE: Tintin In The Congo
Tintin au Congo, the video cartoon (available on DVD, French and English, from Amazon.ca) is innocuous, as Mrrzy says.

Unfortunately, conditions in the Congo are worse than they were when it was the Belgian Leopold's property. The actions of the Belgian government can't be defended,but there is no effective government today. An estimated 3.8 million people died in the war that took place starting in 1998. It supposedly ended 3-4 ears ago, but genocide, displacement, slavery, starvation and even cannibalism continues.

I wasn't going to comment in this thread anymore but in a thrift shop I ran across the old Epps hit record from 1960, "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I Don't Want to Leave the Congo." Again, innocuous, but I am sure misplaced PC condemns it as well.