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Gorilla Warfare
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.
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.
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