Anthony Weiner: “between 300 and 1,000 people were killed in attacks on more than a dozen villages in northeastern Congo last week.…”

“between 300 and 1,000 people were killed in attacks on more than a dozen villages in northeastern Congo last week. According to witnesses on the ground, the coordinated attacks started with a whistle blow and lasted between five and eight hours. UN and International Red Cross observers say that they have witnessed the results of the killing, 20 mass graves. Mass killings such as this have become a regular occurrence in the Congo Civil War, which killed more than 50,000 last year. Yesterday, up to one thousand people were killed in the span of a few hours, yet these stories don't even make the front page of the papers here in the States. How many people have to die before we will take action? How many lives need to be shattered before we will stand up and say, ``Enough!'' How many more massacres can we sit by and watch before we will realize our mistakes? The United States' failure as a world leader in human rights is demonstrated in our lack of will to stop massacres that have occurred in places like Congo, Kosova, Rwanda, Iraq, and many others. But it is also seen in our denial of those massacres that we know have taken place. Every year since I was elected to Congress, I have joined my colleagues in the House of Representative to hold this annual vigil commemorating the Armenian Genocide for a simple reason, because there are those out there who deny that it ever occurred.”