Marnix Peeters: “You cannot wave flags in front of Gaza without someone eventually saying: ‘But where is your red line for Eastern Congo?’”

Marnix Peeters, an interviewer and reporter at this newspaper for many years, looks at things very sharply as a columnist. This week he asks himself why there are massive protests for Gaza, but not for the forgotten wars in Africa. “For twenty-five years, six million innocent civilians were slaughtered for our convenience. But there was not a living soul to be found on the Suikerrui.”

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