[…] Belgian farmers, drawn to despair by low prices offered for their produce, decided that it was more profitable for them to dump 3 million liters of milk than sell it for nothing. Currently, the milk price is approximately 18-20 euro cents per liter, while the production cost is 33 euro cents. To make dairy farming business solvent, they believe that farmers should be able to sell milk for 50 euro cents per liter. But for now they can only dream about such a price. Earlier, farmers had already blocked roads and given away the milk for free. And now here's their latest decisive action - fields near the Belgian town of Ciney have been fertilized with millions of liters of milk that no one needs. […]

And here is drugoi's post scriptum (RUS) to this post:

[…] They should've asked LJ users. Our experts always have recipes for all possible situations. For example, here the experts' council could suggest giving the milk away to the starving children in Africa. Let's see who responds in the comments - and what recommendations we'll get.

LJ user drugoi has 41,453 readers among registered LiveJournal users alone, and, needless to say, many people have responded: there are 774 comments so far, and here's a translation of just a handful of them:

a_brosimov:

Would've killed them if I were God.

***

flymanager:

Indeed, they should have given it away to the needy. To export to Africa would be too costly.

lenin75ka:

Africa wouldn't allow European products in, just like Russia. The problems with sales that the local farmers are facing are much worse than those of the European farmers.

[…]

The price isn't going to go up if they give it away to the needy, because this would diminish the demand.

***

sokolhan:

It's better to sell it for 20 cents than to dump it.

***

lavradar:

Last century, during the over-production crisis, they were just dumping it into the river, so here they've actually done a pretty practical thing.

lenin75ka:

In the years of the great famine in the USSR, Stalin was offered American products for free, because the demand wasn't there at all. We were too proud and categorically refused - and showed off our “abundance” by staging feasts. So the farmers were forced to burn grain and dump milk into rivers. It seemed to have helped as a result - the demand returned.

lavradar:

Haven't heard about the “free offers” - but it's true about farmers giving away for free, only there are no sponsors to deliver it to Africa.

lenin75ka:

There were rumors in the West that many people in the USSR are starving to death, even newspapers were writing articles about it. But the USSR was denying these rumors were true. They were even staging huge feasts for European and American guests, to demonstrate that there was no food shortage in the USSR. And the West believed it. Offers of humanitarian aid from the U.S. government to Stalin stopped coming.

[…]

http://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/bernard_shaw.htm

In the open letter to the editor of the Manchester Guardian, Bernard Shaw calls the reports of the famine in the USSR false. (Thursday 2 March 1933)

pashyrey:

Famine in the USSR was caused by the fact that the harvest was being taken away from the peasants and sold to the West. They needed currency for industrialization, and gas and oil weren't so popular then, grain had much more value.

lenin75ka:

Yes, the were selling. And - it was also rotting in the fields. Moreover, the West refused to buy - they had plenty of their own and the prices were collapsing towards zero.

***

denver07:

Well… Let's take Sudan, for example. Where people are dying off like flies. And they are dumping the milk… This mentality is somewhat alike to ours.

lavradar:

Well, so why don't you sponsor the delivery to Sudan.

***

onlymax:

http://www.rg.ru/2009/07/30/moloko.html [An article published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on July 30, RUS]

An unprecedented action is planned for tomorrow in Ust-Labinsky region of [Kuban]. Villagers drawn to despair by low milk prices intend to publicly dump their produce into manure.

Same stuff in Stavropol region.

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pashaman:

This did happen before… In England… Some 100 years ago… But with vegetables. They were drowned in the sea.

[…]

And our [Russian] farmers are also selling their produce for 10 rubles [22 euro cents], and in stores it costs 30 rubles [67 euro cents].

daily_winegraph:

Ten rubles sounds like a good price. According to the info I have, it's from 4 to 6 rubles [8-13 euro cents].

kolbaska:

Four rubles per liter [8 euro cents].

***

zanozanet:

They should have dumped the milk into a swimming pool and then charged 50 euro cents for tickets there.

***

leo_nardo:

Don't they have orphanages and other preschool institutions in Belgium?

mcsdwarken:

I don't think Belgian orphanages and other institutions suffers from a shortage of milk.

***

tatti_anna:

Aren't they making anything out of milk nowadays? […] Like, division of labor - farmers are producing milk, other farmers are making cheese and cottage cheese […] People are too lazy to produce something, it's such a Russian way - to gather, have it rot, ask for more money… This has always been the cheapest option…

incogn1too:

Socialism does lead to this. Everyone wants subsidies from the state.

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sergey_sht:

By the way, in 2002, when the EU refused to buy powdered milk from Ukraine, which resulted in a similar situation, our folks slaughtered the cows - so radical. And this reflects on the raw products market still. And [the Belgians] are just dumping the milk, drawing attention to themselves, but they aren't SLAUGHTERING the herd! It remains to be seen who is acting smarter in such a situation.

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red_tengu:

They used to get good subsidies from the national government and the EU, and now the subsidies have been significantly cut (WTO and the crisis) - and the farmers' revenues have fallen. No one wants to buy such expensive milk. In Latvia, by the way, milk prices are even lower - approximately 6 euro cents, and there were cases when farmers weren't getting anything for their milk - like, not fat enough, etc.

***

golovach_igor:

Why do they need so many farmers if no one needs milk? All Belgian farmers should urgently turn into citizen journalists, bloggers, sell their tractors, buy a camera with a laptop, and they'll have enough money left to buy a ticket to [Perm] - quite a competition that's gonna be!!!!!!!!

***

rolliks:

A good way to get money for the milk:

Day One. In a convoy of milk trucks, we drive into Brussels - and water the streets [with milk].
Day Two. In a convoy of milk trucks, we drive into Brussels. It smells. We still water the streets [with milk].
Day Three. We approach Brussels. The stench is terrible. Brussels residents meet us at the city edge with money. We sell the milk.

“EU offers reassurance to Ukraine,” read a BBC headline. “EU offers no promises to hopeful Ukraine,” wrote the Irish Times. “EU Makes Positive Noises But Offers Only Vague Deal to Ukraine,” stated Deutsche Welle. “Nervous EU offers Ukraine hope for the future but no seat at the table,” concluded The Times.

The negative part of the assessment of the Summit's results stems from the EU's decision not to include the term “membership perspective” in the description of Ukraine’s future relationship with the EU - a phrase, which, according to Vitaly of The 8th Circle, “would identify Ukraine’s EU aspirations as something more than a hypothetical idea”:

[…] To myself, I thought that this is not surprising. With the EU still digesting the 2004 and 2007 enlargement waves, experiencing the Romania-Bulgaria fatigue syndrome, and dealing with an internal problem caused by Ireland’s vote against the Lisbon constitution treaty, any talk of further enlargement perspective for other states, especially those like Ukraine with 46 million citizens or Turkey with 70 million, must be nauseating. Although, smaller states, like Serbia with a population of 7 million, have a more realistic perspective as we have recently learned from Mr. Barroso […].

The 8th Circle points at another alleged reason for deciding against Ukraine's “European perspective” - the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine - but argues that “what Ukraine is going through right now SHARES quite a bit with the European values”:

[…] Furthermore it is puzzling why the withdrawal of one section from the ruling coalition, and the consequent potential for a pre-term election is NOT an example of shared values between the EU and Ukraine. As a democracy with competitive, free and fair elections, Ukraine is attempting to find an institutional solution that will accommodate all of its political actors.

It is a democratic process through which every democratic state must pass through if it is to move beyond the adjective - “transitional.” Well consolidated democracies, such as Canada and Japan are currently going through the same coalition formation/pre-term election process, and Belgium in the past year took 196 days to form a coalition, which almost beat their 1977 record of 208 days. […]

J Clive Matthews of Nosemonkey's EUtopia thinks that the EU should adopt a more practical approach to dealing with Ukraine:

[…] So Ukraine’s less welcome than tiny Albania and Macedonia? Less welcome than Serbia, a country built on a genocidal civil war and still in dispute with much of the EU over the status of Kosovo?

Yeah, cheers for that. Really encouraging. Nice one.

The promise of future EU membership can be a force for good, inspiring positive shifts towards greater democratic freedoms. But the promise has to be made. Taking a carrot and stick approach is a tried-and-tested method for getting people to do what you want - and that goes for countries too. Yet in the case of Ukraine, the EU’s carrot would appear to be largely imaginary - while at the same time, Ukrainians know that Russia has both stick and carrot, and isn’t afraid to use either.

Taras of Ukrainiana takes a harsh stance on the performance of Ukraine's politicians:

[…] Sure, Euro-beggars can’t be Euro-choosers. Especially if you come to the negotiation table in such a grotesque disarray.

In the meantime, let our oligarchs buy a little more of Monaco. Maybe then we’ll have our chance to join the EU? […]

Part of the passage above is actually a reaction to Victor Yushchenko's seemingly awkward and inappropriately positive response to what Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly said on behalf of the EU at the end of the Summit. Ukrainiana posted a news report broadcast by one of Ukrainian TV stations and provided an English translation of the Ukrainian voiceover translation of Sarkozy's words:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy: This association agreement [to be signed in 2009] does not close any paths, nor does it open any paths. That’s all we could give.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko: We very much appreciate what we reached today.

It turns out, however, that Sarkozy's remark has been mistranslated, and the incorrect translation was then featured prominently in the Ukrainian and a few Western media outlets (more about it - here). The original statement - “[…] cet accord d’association ne ferme aucune piste, que même il en ouvre” - apparently translates as “[…] this association agreement does not close any route, it even opens some.”

“Well, let's see what that means in practical terms,” concludes Ukrainiana after posting a correction.

The 8th Circle believes that the EU should “stay engaged with its Eastern Neighborhood” and that the Polish-Swedish Eastern Partnership project might be “a good small step in that direction.” Here is why:

[…] This partnership more than anything will show that the EU retains its leadership role in Europe by staying actively engaged with “neighborhood countries” that are at various stages of democratic and economic development.

[…]

Note that the question is not about making a promise of membership or candidateship - like the one made by Barroso vis-a-vis Serbia - rather it is about signaling to politicians in Kyiv and the Ukrainian population that if they want to and if they reform accordingly, then the EU is a viable option. […]

On Feb. 24, B92 blogger Jelena Milic wrote about a scandalous report by a Russian state TV host Konstantin Syomin about the 2003 murder of prime minister Zoran Dindic:

[…] Today I've read in Kurir the contents of a protest note by the Serbian embassy in Moscow, which, on recommendation by foreign minister Vuk Jeremic, was sent to […] the national television and its editor instead of Russia's government.

Protest note of Serbian embassy:

“Belgrade - yesterday, on request of foreign minister Vuk Jeremic, the Serbian embassy in Russia sent a protest note to the editor of national television “Russia” because of the insulting statements by one of its news hosts, announced Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It says in this protest note that the actions of journalist Konstantin Syomin, who had insulted Zoran Dindic and justified his assassination, are absolutely unacceptable for Serbia.
The note also expressed disappointment because of the comment on the Russian national television, especially at the moment when Serbia was facing the problem with the sovereignty over Kosovo. Serbian embassy demands that “Russia” TV Channel publicly dissociate itself from journalist Syomin and familiarize the Russian public with the contents of the protest note.”

[…]

In Belgium, the Serbian embassy is demanding apologies from a Flemish TV station. Goran Miletic used the incident to discuss double standards in Serbia's treatment of certain issues:

It would be nice to write about president Boris Tadic's statement that hatred, which was followed by ruining of property, aren't part of “the right Serbia.” That, simply, is not true because at least several thousand young people (of 300,000-500,000) threw at least one stone or did something more than that. But the ugly picture that went to the world hurt the majority. It is the same with war crimes. It's not a problem that Serbs had actually commited them […], not a problem how many times and in which way they had commited them, nor is it a problem that we've been hiding war criminals for so many years. The problem is that the ugly picture about it went to the world. In both cases - Yes, we are guilty. That can be the only right message to one's own people.

[…]

Here's what happened in Belgium yesterday:

“The Flemish television (VTA) should send an apology to the Serbian embassy because of the way of it portrayed Serbs in a program about the Eurovision [Song Contest].”

This TV station broadcast two make-belief characters, two Serbian girls named Mirjana and Milena, who were drinking vodka, smoking, looting mobile phones, then hiding them under fur caps. This program provoked protest of Serbian residents in Belgium and an official protest of the Serbian embassy.

[…]

I believe that the majority in Serbia were horrified by this news. However, the same Serbs are not horrified when people are talking in Serbia that Roma are thieves and dirty people, Albanians are always ugly people, separatists and terrorists, gays are people who spread AIDS and ruin the healthy Serbian beings. […]

Below are a few snippets of this lively discussion, all translated from Russian.

LJ user iraan reported from Kosovo on Feb. 15:

[…] In Kosovo, everyone is promising independence - even this hotel ad.

A picture of a roadside ad for a hotel in Kosovo's capital Priština accompanied the post; the ad read:

INDEPE
NDENCE

HOTEL AFA IS READY

On Feb. 17, the day Kosovo declared independence, LJ user iraan wrote:

…Priština. Today
…celebrations are in full swing here already. Here you go, my dear ones

In the comments section, she later added two photos of happy-looking men waving Albanian flags. LJ user cqdx - who served in Kosovo (RUS) as part of Russia's peacekeeping mission, but is currently based in Geneve, Switzerland - noted:

[…] If at one point Yeltsin's Supreme Council hadn't chickened out and instead accepted Serbia as part of Russia, there wouldn't have been today's [orgy] in Kosovo. […]

In another Feb. 17 post, LJ user iraan made this observation about the flags she was seeing in Kosovo's capital:

…there are more stars and stripes in Priština than even the black eagles. It is obvious who the papa is and who is directing the process.

LJ user vikrussia left this comment:

How sad. I am speechless. There was hope until the very last moment. And now there's only one thought in my head: this is what they are going to do to us, too - “in a civilized manner,” [pretending to observe principles] of “legality” and “law.” The Slavic world has died. God has turned away from us. We have to figure out what for.

Serbia-based LJ user sanielisse wrote this on Feb. 19:

I've been reading and watching the news non-stop for the second day in a row. […] Kosovo, an independent state?
On Friday and Saturday, they began sending SMS's - “pray fro Kosovo… […]”
Where were you before? Why didn't you pray every day in Serbian temples for the rescue of Kosovo and its relics, and its Serbian people?
A female student at the university declared to me today: “I want to live and not to think about Kosovo…”
It's easy to sell your past. But then you'll be walking through a swamp.
After these words I joined the protest rally with my friends. My heart was aching…
Is this a protest, or a funeral of Kosovo, or a holiday? Not very clear… God, what can one understand here, in Serbia, when the president declares, “Be peaceful…” How could those who carried out the pogroms on Sunday night stay peaceful if the country's heart and soul had been torn out?
And if today you stopped those who were yelling “Kosovo is Serbia's heart” and asked WHAT IS KOSOVO, would many of them have an answer?
And no one but [Bishop Artemije] has mentioned that it's not just an attack on Serbia. It's a new blow to Orthodox Christianity.
[Abkhazia's Sergei Bagapsh] and [South Ossetia's Eduard Kokoity] said beautifully today: Serbia is a country well-established politically, it's not in turmoil, and a piece of it is being cut off only because two ethnic groups look at each other through gun muzzles… And what can be said about Georgia, a country that isn't well-established yet, which is permanently on fire, and into which North [sic] Ossetia and Abkhazia are being squeezed? […]

LJ user dreamy_tanger left this comment:

[…] Why wasn't your heart aching when [Slobodan Milošević] organized the genocide of Albanians and Bosniaks? Was Orthodox Christian “compassion” an obstacle? As for Kosovo, there's no use worrying about it anymore, it has not been part of Serbia de facto for a long time, now at least they'll be obliged to observe minorities' rights as an independent state.

LJ user drugoi, on Feb. 16, posted five photos of the pre-independence celebrations in Kosovo, titled his post, “Farewell, Serbia?” - and received four pages of comments. Here are some of them:

drakon_1 [Israel-based]:

Hurrah!!!

dtxysq [Russia-based]:

Hurrah?

sergey_sht [Ukraine-based]:

He doesn't live in Kosovo.
“Freedom and land to Palestine!”

drakon_1:

Palestinians, too, should have a state of their own, with clearly defined borders - I don't see any contradiction in this.

sergey_sht:

Albanians also should have a state of their own with clearly defined borders. But for some reason they want Kosovo, too, just like Arabs want Jerusalem.

Don't you understand that it can't be just ‘We want it and that's it.' It's not as simple over there.

dao_b [Russia-based]:

Russians also should have a state of their own with clearly defined borders. But for some reason they want a small Russian republic on the territory of Moldova, too.

Don't you understand that it can't be just ‘We want it and that's it.'

***

polinsky_yard:

[…] Well, good luck to them.
Why are we saying farewell to Serbia as if it's something that belongs to us? We have no more rights for it than Americans.

terskiy_kazak:

Oh-oh, are you serious?! [Count with me]: faith, language, history… Damn, we are the same people with Serbs! It's somehow awkward to even discuss this subject: it's like proving that the Earth is round…

LJ user shupa (originally from Belarus, currently based in Prague, Czech Republic) wrote this in the yugo_ru LJ community, whose focus is on “culture, history and literature of the former Yugoslav states”:

Someone has reminded us here today: “I'm reminding you that Kosovo is a historically Serbian territory, which, in the past half a century, has become dominated by Albanian population.”

What kind of term is that - “historically XXX territory”? If we start looking for all the historical territories and all those who are occupying them now, then Russians should be kicked out from behind [the Urals] or even closer (definitely [Smolensk], [Prussia], [Ingria]). And I'm not even talking about [the Americans]. Anyway, let's all return to the borders of the 14th century, when [the Grand Duchy of Lithuania] stretched from one sea to the other :)

The most important thing now is for them not to start killing one another again. As for all this screaming - we are not giving Kosovo away, Moscow is behind us - these are indeed [calls to action]. There must be plenty of them on the other side, too, only we don't see or hear them, and “the other” side isn't really advertising them. […]

LJ user michail wrote this:

[…] Serbian [dear brothers] deserve our sympathy, of course. But, honestly, would all that's happened be possible if Serbs hadn't exchanged their resistance will for the sweet promises of the Eurocommissars? One's gotta pay for “the European choice.” […]

I suspect that we need the proverbial solidarity with [dear Serbian brothers] more than Serbs do. I haven't forgotten yet that the [Russian mass awakening] began with the [1999 NATO bombing of Belgrade]. We were throwing stones at the U.S. embassy then and singing [Kosovo Front] all together - was it in vain? Cannon fire in Serbia awoke the Russian bear, ridding him of a whole package of the most dangerous illusions of the 1990s. […] And, thank God, it was someone else's war that served as a catalyst for national awakening. […]

LJ user michail ended his post with a video of a Corsican band “L'Arcusgi,” which included a Corsican female singers' performance of “the famous ‘Hegoak' - a patriotic anthem of [the Basque Country].”

Israel-based LJ user aristocrate was not sincere when he congratulated Europe on the birth of its “new child”:

I congratulate Europe with a new child - Kosovo!

And since the EU has so happily supported the unilaterally declared independence of a new Muslim state on its territory, I'm also wishing it to have many, many more kids: independent Catalonia, Corsica, Wallonia, Flanders, the Basque Country, Wales, and, somewhat later, Normandy, Ruhr, Gascony, Wallachia, Prussia, Sicily, etc.

You deserve it, idiots. […]

LJ user varfolomeev66, a Russian journalist, was “more concerned” with the fate of Russia than with that of “the USA and the leading European states. He wrote:

I'm trying to understand: our diplomats and those who sometimes listen to their recommendations - are they fools or enemies?
I'd like to have a look at the authors of the thesis on the “precedent-making nature of Kosovo case,” about which Putin and [Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov] have been talking incessantly for the past few months. Do they understand what they are doing?
I assume they […] were trying to intimidate Europe and America this way: like, Wales and Montana will follow Kosovo's example. But [they] ended up prescribing treatment that's worse than the disease itself.
The president, who has called the unilateral separation of Kosovo a precedent, has given [freedom to act] to our own, home-grown separatists. If, for example, Ingush, Karelian or [Primorye] comrades decided to split from Mother Russia, they would remind those who'd try to stop them that Putin himself had shown them the way! Wasn't it Putin who said that other peoples may follow after Kosovars - and we are following them!
[…]
Instead of emphasizing the uniqueness of the Kosovo case along with the countries of the West and talking of the impossibility of repeating it, our regime is voluntarily provoking our own secessionists. […]

LJ user freetatarstan - which is actually a “journal for those who support the idea of independence of [the Republic of Tatarstan]” - wrote:

KOSOVA!

Remember how some observers used to assert that as soon as Russia starts being nice to Abkhazia and Ossetia in response to Kosovo's independence, the national autonomies of the Russian Federation will raise their voices as well…
Well, what can you say to this… We wouldn't want to disappoint them… […]

Congolese bloggers–the opposition in particular–have little love for Louis Michel,a frequent target of their bitter criticism, not to mention the occasional effigy paraded at protests organized by the Congolese community in Belgium.

In 2006, during the run up to the presidential elections in the DRC, Katombe wrote that Louis Michel, himself a descendant of Leopold II, is the real leader of Congo, not Joseph Kabila whose candidacy they say Michel supported:

Dans la rue, à Kinshasa, lorsqu’il est posé aux congolais la question de savoir qui dirige le pays, univoque, la réponse tombe : ‘‘Louis Michel’’. Comment s’en étonner lorsque l’arrière petit-fils de Léopold II de très triste mémoire se prononce à chaque étape du processus et réussit toujours à faire prévaloir ses thèses?

Here are some reactions to the YouTube video from Le renouveau congolais's readers, most of whom condemned Michel and applauded the outbreak:

kid:

merci beaucoup mes freres on sais que vous n'êtes pas dûpes de tous ces voleurs de l'occidents qui pillent notre pays sans remord pour sa population.

muntu mukaji:

Vous êtes des anges si pas des petits-Dieu,votre action est à repété même infines fois.Que l'UÉ se sente aussi humiliée. Par cet acte des dignes fils et filles du Congo, ceux qui ne savent pas réellement notre problème le sauront. Un voleur semblable à tous voleur du marché et à tout pick-pocket.Un Cléptomane qu'il faut soigner Louis Michel, Menteur, muivi wuetu amu wa kwutayi kwatayi ewu. L'honneur du Congo n'en suoffrira pas bien au contraire. Ayoki.

Souve:

Vraiment je tres content de voir cet acte d' humiliation de cet individu L Michel.
Si nous tous, nous avons cette idee de defendre une cause Congolaise voir meme Dieu va nous aider.
Merci pur le courage et le risque……

Not everyone was as enthusiastic about the protesters' behavior.

Katy:

Etant présent lors de la conférence, j'aimerais mettre en avant le manque de tenue et les propos totalement incohérents tenus par les représentants de la communauté congolaise.

La conférence ne s'est en rien transformée en une humiliation de Mr. Michel mais bien en une humilation du peuple congolais. En manquant de respect par rapport au speaker, ceux-ci sont passés pour des personnes sans aucune éducation.

La réputation du Congo risque d'en souffrir…!

Crispin:

Le Seigneur Jésus-Christ nous demande de bénir et d'aimer ceux que nous estimons être nos ennemis.

Et,ce n'est que par la mise en pratique de ce commandement que la bénédiction divine descendra sur notre TRES chère RDC.

L'Amour est une arme plus forte que les marches,les accusations et les revendications…car nous sommes tous des pécheurs.Je souhaite le partage de la nationalité,spécialement avec nos frères BELGES,…L'histoire étant inséparable…

Joseph, who blogs at Le renouveau congolais, disagrees:

La bible declare: Combat le bon combat. Donc, les congolais, comme a' l'epoque de Josue', ont droit de se battre pour la conquete de sa terre, nation qui est la Rdc, prise en otage pwr la comunaute' europeenne, les Usa et certains vosins malveillants.

Tenons bon: Avec Dieu nous ferons des exploits et il ecrasera nos ennemis (UE, Usa, Rwanda, etc…dans le corps quon apelle Joseph Kabila leur instrument d'operation.

Vive l'Eternel, vive le congo et vive les vaillants filles et fils de la Rdc. Votre recompense sera tres grande.

YouTube users also offered their commentary, all of which was hostile, and sometimes violent:

chretien2007:

je salue le courage de fils digne du congo por l´acte que vous vennez de realisé a londre c´est qui nous reste se d´assasiner c´est troubadoure qui est louis michel et c´est colabo.courage mes frere du sang car nous vaincront

synergieagissante:

Bravo mille fois a tous les Congolais de Londres. Louis Michel et sa troupe devront savoir que tot ou tard ils paieront. Ca ce n'est que le debut du commencement.

chopperred1:

Bravo a Londres. Toute la diaspora congolaise doit suivre cet example!

H2JKAY:

Louis Michel est il Africain ??? pourquoi parle t'il au nom de l'Afrique. Ces Europeens leurs grands parents ont pille, viole et torture l'Afrique, leurs parents ont fait de meme maintenant c'est leurs enfants… Si longue soit la nuit le jour viendra

DixonKanyinda:

Je ne comprend pas pourquoi ce sont les Louis-Michel et autres blancs europeens qui doivent tjrs etre porte-paroles de l'Afrique et plus precisement du Congo/Kinshasa.

pktn2000:

Bravo chers compatriotes! C'est déjà ce qu'il faut faire: faire entendre la voix et la cause du peuple congolais dans le monde. Le congolais commence bien à se débarrasser de la peur! L'Idiot de Kinshasa a de mauvais jours devant lui! Vive le Congo et son peuple!

Finally, user demsmwalimu offers this music video, “Justice Populaire” (Popular Justice), by Ndombolo as a video response. Before you hit play, you might try standing up. Get ready to dance :-)