https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b64f949d-506d-4690-a0ca-1d6fac2f1c5e On its face, nothing seems more benign and positive than “wildlife conservation.” But the Wildlife Conservation Society and the German and US governments have now been implicated in supporting organized violence against Congolese villagers, using mortars, RPGs, indisciminate fire, murder and rape. This is the finding of award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Robert Flummerfelt. Flummerfelt and his team uncovered a three-year campaign of violence by park authorities to expel Batwa people from their lands, using funding and trained by the West and conservation groups. Investigators were targeted for murder after their report came out. He joined Dispatches with Rania Khalek to discuss his investigation, the history of Western violence in the Congo and the racist settler roots of some of the biggest players in the conservation movement. Read the investigation here: https://minorityrights.org/publications/pnkb/ Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts. Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK TIME CODES 0:00 Intro 1:55 What Robert uncovered in the Congo 9:35 Western-funded extermination 14:14 Wildlife Conservation Society 19:41 Racist settler roots of the conservation movement 27:14 Militarization of conservation 38:59 Germany’s role 42:34 NGOs behaving like settler/occupiers 51:24 History of Western imperialism in the Congo 1:02:11 Rwanda and Uganda collaborate with Western imperialism in the Congo 1:07:23 UN mission in the Congo: Helpful or harmful? 1:19:40 Is ISIS really in the Congo? Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:47:44 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b64f949d-506d-4690-a0ca-1d6fac2f1c5e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.