Comments on: AMD, Congo, and the perils of code names

AMD moves to retire "Congo" code name quickly after bloggers complain about link to country suffering epidemic of sexual violence and war.

[solitare_pax]

Hopefully they won't choose "Love Canal" for their next codename...

[rhsc]

Way to make controversy where none exists, bloggers. It's a code name. It's inherently meaningless and designed not to reflect any detail of the product.
Calling the chip 'Congo' doesn't mean it rapes women with blood diamonds and illegally mined tungsten.

Complaining about that name is like drawing a phallus in a coloring book and then calling the coloring book inappropriate for children, in that it only became inappropriate after you applied yourselves to it

[BAMAToNE]

Absolutely agree with you and bsharkey below. Ridiculous.

[MickBurke]

I'm waiting for the 'brutally killed hump back whale' processor.

[bsharkey]

the hypersensitive, politically correct ********** "win" again. congrats on your latest big victory, ladies.

[Sam Papelbon]

apparently people in the congo also have very colorful hands.

otherwise, this is a nonstory.

[phylum--2008]

How dare the "Congo Resources" blog use the name "Congo" in its title! What a complete rape of the Congolese culture. When will we as a society learn that we must completely forego mentioning the name -- indeed, we must completely deny the existence out of sympathy and solidarity - of any oppressed peoples, nation, or species? (standing on soapbox, doggedly wagging finger in direction of PC blogger...)

It's times like this when I wish Jonathan Swift were still around to blog...

[Martin_V]

Worst one was probably Oracle's ECM codename 'Tsunami'. Apple was also C&Ded over the Dylan name for a programming language by Bob Dylan's people.

[MJPCongo]

MJPC blames the Congolese Government for the Deteriorating Situation in East Congo(DRC)

"There is no excuse for missing to pay salaries to soldiers in lawless eastern Congo for six months"

Following the deteriorating situation in east Congo, the MJPC called today for the Congolese Government to urgently pay the salaries to thousands of soldiers who have not been paid for over six months in eastern Congo, take swift action to enforce the International Criminal Court's (ICC) warrant against Bosco Ntaganda and to hold accountable perpetrators of sexual violence against women for their acts.

"Failing to hold accountable individuals who commit war crimes and crimes against humunity continues to be the leading cause of widespread and systematic sexual violence acts against girls and women in the easten Congo" said Makuba Sekombo, Community Affairs Director of the Mobilization for Justice and Peace in the DR Congo (MJPC).

Mr. Sekombo again criticized the government of Congo for not only the continuing failure to protect women and young girls from sexual violence, but also for "encouraging conditions that create opportunities for sexual violence to occur". "There is no excuse for missing to pay salaries to soldiers in the lawless eastern Congo for six months" said Sekombo. The MJPC has also renewed its call for the Congolese government to take urgent needed action to end human rights abuses in east Congo, hold perpetrators accountable and ensure reparation for the victims of sexual violence.

The MJPC has been urging the Congolese government to compensate the victims of sexual violence in order to also help combat impunity in eastern part of Congo where sexual violence against women and children has been widely used as weapon of war for more than decade. The MJPC online petition calling for help to put pressure on Congolese Government to compensate victims of sexual siolence in Eastern DRC can be signed at http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/26180.html


About MJPC

MJPC works to add a voice in advocating for justice and peace in the DRC particulary in the east of DRC where thousands innocent civilian including children and women continue to suffer massive human rights violations while armed groups responsible for these crimes go unpunished

For more information about the MJPC and its activities, visit http://www.mjpcongo.org. or call Makuba Sekombo @ 1-408-8063-644 or e-mail: [e-mail]. The online petition calling on the Congolese Government to put urgently in place a comprehensive program of compensation for the victims of sexual violence in eastern Congo can be signed at http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/26180.html