Lingering Thoughts on Maus II

I am really interested in why it was written as comics.  I know it was written by a comic artist but it is interesting because each group was depicted as a different animal.  I found it really disconcerting that something so horrible was depicted in a somewhat comical format.  It stuck with me a lot better than any other book I had read about it.  I tend to find second-had accounts fascinating and they stick with me much more than any other way that things are depicted.  Especially if they are written as novels or in some why that is not really fact heavy.  I'm not entirely sure that I like it written as comics.  It definitely disturbs me.

Congo Today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8530000/8530686.stm
Many children in the Congo are being accused of witchcraft and the number is growing.  There is little sense of family and community so sometimes the children's family will try to burn them or throw them out if they are accused of witchcraft. 
Why is there still thought of witchcraft today?     How would a stronger sense of community and family change the lives of the children who are accused? 


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/africa/04congo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=democratic%20republic%20of%20the%20congo&st=csehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/africa/04congo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=democratic%20republic%20of%20the%20congo&st=cse
Even though the UN is in the Congo and trying to keep peace, there is still a lot of rape and murder going on.  Around 200 women were raped and many people were killed in a village that had UN peace keepers just down the road. 
Why is the UN failing to keep peace and stop the rapes and murders?  What could the UN and other countries do to help the problems in the Congo?