Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot

Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot: "This is the story of the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler's armies marched across Europe - a war that has not ended. But is also the story of a trail of blood that leads directly to you: to your remote control, to your mobile phone, to your laptop and to your diamond necklace. In the TV series Lost, a group of plane crash survivors believe they are stranded alone on a desert island, until one day they discover a dense metal cable leading out into the ocean and the world beyond. The Democratic Republic of Congo is full of those cables, mysterious connections that show how a seemingly isolated tribal war is in reality something very different. "

I have learnt of the Congo tragedy in some detail from this article. It portrays how governments refuse to listen to UN's warnings that the only way to end the decade old war (that killed over 4 million people and reduced the state of women and children to far worse than destitutes) is to stop buying the country natural resources which is what the various militias fight over. I keep seeing everyday in the news about how 2 Australian miners are in the process of being rescued or the count of US soldiers dying in Iraq has crossed 2000, but I wonder when the world stopped paying attention to the deaths of as many people in the World Trade Center every two days (according to the author).