Gorilla Warfare

[danalwyn]

National Geographic reports that Mai Mai guerrillas have launched several attacks on ranger stations in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week, killing one World Wildlife Fund worker and injuring several others.

To make a bad thing worse, they have threatened that any attempt by the rangers, or other government forces, to retaliate in this matter will result in them slaughtering the park's population of endangered mountain gorillas. The Mai Mai are apparently already famous for killing a great number of Virunga's hippo population both to make money and gain Western attention. Presumably, they feel that this is a logical extension of that policy.


There's low, there's despicable, and then there's this. I'm really hoping that the Congolese military has gotten good enough in the past few years to track these guys down.

Comments

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

The problem is that any retaliatory strike has to be a concerted effort from all sides -- it's a relatively simple matter to cross into Uganda, Rwanda, or even Burundi from that location, and the Congolese military can't follow without creating an incident. It's a despicable situation.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

Or you have to out-guerrilla the guerrillas. That's certainly how I prefer to run my Counter-Insurgency, but that takes a relatively skilled and determined group of people, which may not be available. I've never been a fan of the brute force approach.

[lacontessamala.livejournal.com]

I think we're overlooking the obvious solution: get in there and train the gorillas to kill interlopers with giant clubs. Just because it was in a lame Michael Crichton book (http://www.amazon.com/Congo-Dylan-Walsh/dp/B000QC4C7Y/ref=sr_1_2/105-6213208-3133264?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1180149049&sr=8-2) first doesn't mean it's not a good idea.

[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

This is one of the few times when I think the use of mutant gorillas is justified.