The Second Congo Essay

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young innocent child stranded around a sea of dead corpses. This child hears babies cry over their dead mothers, and the women scream from rape of the enemies. Bullets fly everywhere, piercing the child’s family, and bombs destroying their home. After witnessing all of this, the child realizes that there’s no such thing as love and hope in this corrupted world. The reader believes that this situation truly seems impossible to exist, but that’s where the reader is absolutely wrong. Somewhere in Africa, a war similar has happened, and it’s considered atrocious because this foolish war costed the death of millions by hunger, diseases, and especially rape. It has also become ghastly because the very root of this

This war had included nine countries from Africa to war, resulting to more death. During the war not only were there any wounded or dead soldiers, there were also citizens and families who died immensely in this war. These citizens were normal people who greeted each other and done their daily routines every day. These people had children to take care of and feed, jobs to keep, and now they had to bear the burden of war. This whole epidemic has seriously impacted the citizens more than the soldiers, who combated each other out of inconsiderate reasons. This war had created an immensely huge death toll of 5.4 million people. Out of 5.4 million, around 200 thousand deaths were caused by combat. Therefore, shockingly, the remaining 5.2 million deaths were of diseases, starvation, and plenty of other horrific consequences. Many various diseases were transmitted and spread between the victims of the Second Congo War. Such diseases were malaria, yellow fever, and Hepatitis A, and many other ghastly diseases. These infections were very deadly and became increasingly more lethal during the Second Congo War, as many people from both sides of the war were already transmitting new maladies to each other. Not only had that occurred, during this war, people who were catching these illnesses had no sanitation equipment to stop spreading their illness. Therefore, this unfortunate and fatal dispersion of infections had contributed to the war’s death toll of 5.4 million