Gorilla Burger And Priorities

Gorillas have been killed for food by rebels lurking in the jungles of the eastern Congo. Soldiers of a local warlord, Laurent Nkunda, are blamed for the latest killing. Nkunda is a renegade soldier who commands thousands of fighters in the vast country's east who have in recent years assaulted cities and clashed sporadically with government forces.

Robert Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society says:

"We need to impress on Nkunda and his men that it is inexcusable to destroy national and world heritage of such critical importance...."

Interesting take by Mr. Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society.

The idea that Nkunda and his rebels have attacked cities, no doubt killing, burning, raping, plundering--the usual rebel thing--doesn't appear on Muir's radar, but killing a gorilla has his panties in a bunch.

I suppose it's because those gorillas are a "protected" species, and humans aren't.

A good solution would be to send Mr. Muir of the Frankfurt Zoological Society into the jungles of the eastern Congo, find Nkunda and his gorilla-eating rebels, and impress on them how inexcusable their conduct is.

That would be fun to watch.