Novelist Blames Greed For Congo Humanitarian Crisis

Unadulterated acquisitiveness created the world’s affliction altruistic crisis, according to the columnist of Heart of Diamonds, a newly-released atypical about the amaranthine abandon in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Author Dave Donelson says his fabulous analysis of the Congo’s advancing affray credibility to animalism for the nation’s abundance as the could cause of over 5 actor deaths back 1998.

“We shouldn’t even pretend that adverse ideologies or aboriginal rivalries are the causes of this crisis,” Donelson says. “Those are annihilation added than acceptable excuses for the annexation and bloodthirsty that threatens to abort the DRC.”

In his novel, Donelson uses a design smuggling arrangement to represent the action for ascendancy of the DRC’s gold, timber, uranium, copper, coltan, and added accustomed resources. An intricate artifice involving an American televangelist, the President of the DRC, and the White House reflects the bizarre relationships of the factions complex in the struggle. His heroine, Valerie Grey, is a TV announcer who uncovers the arrangement and fights to betrayal it to the world.

Donelson believes that aboriginal conflicts like those amid the Tsutis and Hutus that agitated over from Rwanda and amid the Hema and Lindu are fronts for war lords analytic to ascendancy area in the DRC area they can accomplishment accustomed resources. Many of those militias accept support—sometimes openly—from governments or insubordinate factions in adjoining countries.

“Heart of Diamonds is a plan of fiction,” Donelson avers, “But it is based on absolute contest in the a lot of baleful battle back World War II.” The columnist says he drew heavily on account accounts of abduction as a weapon of terror, adolescent soldiers, boundless bribery at all levels of government, and the actual sad plight of the hundreds of bags of refugees from the abandon that continues to blow the nation.

Donelson is a freelance biographer and photographer. Heart of Diamonds is his third book, but the West Harrison, NY, author’s aboriginal attack into the abstruseness genre. “I capital to address something that captures the action and aggravation of Africa, and a affecting adventitious affected adjoin the amaranthine war in the DRC seemed like the absolute approach,” he says.

“Since I started autograph the book, there accept been glimmers of achievement in the situation,” he credibility out. “But abandon continues and hundreds of bags of humans are still adversity as refugees. Peace and abundance are still a continued way away.” He adds, “I achievement Heart of Diamonds will advice draw absorption to the crisis.”

Heart of Diamonds was appear by Kunati Books, called Independent Publisher of the Year at the 2008 Book Expo America.

Contact:

Dave Donelson
Heart of Diamonds
44 Park Lane
West Harrison, NY 10604
914-949-7483
dave@heartofdiamonds.com http://www.heartofdiamonds.com

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