We will have to await the course of fighting lawyers to learn how this story plays out; but even now there is plenty to tell and plenty to cogitate. It all relates to helping the democratically elected government of the DCR kill seventy of its own. In short the story, as I pick it up from a number of sources, goes thus: In 2004, rebels capture the town that controls the supply route to Anvil’s Congo mine. Anvil provides transport for government troops (thugs) brought in to flush the rebels out. The thugs move fast: they shoot upwards of seventy people and re-open supply lines. Anvil says the government requisitioned such transport, and they had to obey. Not so, say the NGOs, who claim Anvil sought government aid in flushing out the rebels. (more…)
