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You’ve got to be kidding. The DRC is an unfree authoritarian state and one of the poorest countries in the world to boot. It’s in a completely different tier from Serbia.

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You mean the other Congo (RoC). DRC refers to the smaller, moderately good one that isn't currently being invaded by the Rwandan army.

No, that's backwards. DRC is the big one, RoC is the small one.

I feel so incredibly embarrassed at my mistake here and understand the outrage.

The DRC is two, maybe three orders of magnitude below Serbia in living standards and civil liberties and is no basis for comparison.

Don't worry, the professional civil rights NGO got it wrong too.

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