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February 11, 2005

The UN: We're Not Just About Billion-Dollar Corruption Schemes. We Also Rape Children.

Widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of Congolese women, boys and girls have been made against U.N. personnel who were sent to help and protect them — despite a so-called zero tolerance policy touted by the United Nations toward such behavior.
The range of sexual abuse includes reported rapes of young Congolese girls by U.N. troops; an Internet pedophile ring run from Congo by Didier Bourguet, a senior U.N. official from France; a colonel from South Africa accused of molesting his teenage male translators; and estimates of hundreds of underage girls having babies fathered by U.N. soldiers who have been able to simply leave their children and their crimes behind.

Ravaged by decades of civil war, and one of the poorest countries in the world, Congo has relied on the United Nations for both military protection and humanitarian aid.

"The U.N. is there for their protection, so when the protectors become violators, this is particularly egregious," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch who investigated the allegations on behalf of her organization. "This is particularly bad."

William Swing, a former U.S. ambassador to Congo who now heads the U.N. peacekeeping mission there, admitted the sexual crimes were a black mark on the United Nations.

"It pains us all," he said. "It's absolutely odious. And we're determined to wipe it out."

But Swing said the problem was just recently brought to his attention, and that only a small percentage of the 11,000 U.N. personnel in Congo were involved.

"A few people have managed to basically cause disgrace for the mission and for the U.N., and that's why we're determined to conquer it. I have sent a dozen home," Swing said. But human rights investigators have reported a far wider, even systemic problem, recording more than 150 allegations against U.N. employees in Congo.

And there is what human rights investigators have called "survival sex."

Thanks to ScottJ.

I'll tell you one thing-- we wouldn't be having these sorts of problems if Jeff Gannon had been elected President in 1948.

posted by Ace at 03:22 PM

Comments

UNICEF: United Nations International Child Exploitation Force.

As Kofi said: "Even if it saves only one child for our personal pleasures, isn't it worth it?"

Posted by: Joe Mama on February 11, 2005 03:28 PM

Catchiest. Headline. Ever.

Posted by: fat kid on February 11, 2005 03:30 PM

In related news: Michael Jackson has just replaced Ted Turner as the single biggest American doner to the U.N.

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Posted by: never never amish on February 11, 2005 04:00 PM

But you forgot, "And we're still morally superior to the US!"

This stuff has been going on for years. How come it only comes out now, and not during the election?

When the revolution comes, I'd like to break with the line-up-the-lawyers-and-shoot 'em-first tradition, and replace them with the UN techno-crati.

You think they'd let us borrow Usay's "plastic" shredder?

Posted by: Iblis on February 11, 2005 04:03 PM

300 years from now: Headline Muf-a-shria the new lunatic left demands that their feelings be heard. I am in so much pain due to this atrocity 300 years ago, I can’t sleep at night.

Or we could do something about it now…. Well the loony tunes bunch will never agree but…..

Posted by: Greg on February 11, 2005 04:16 PM

Just Announced: R. Kelley and Jerry Lee Lewis will be performing USO style shows for UN peacekeepers in the Congo. Tickets available through TicketMaster.

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Posted by: amishs big adventure on February 11, 2005 04:25 PM

Oooh I bet Roman Polanski is rushing to the Congo to make a movie about it now.

Posted by: HowardDevore on February 11, 2005 04:59 PM

Let me see if I've got this right: Less than 30 out of a total of 100,00 of our soldiers were involved in the Abu Ghraib "scandal", and we've been torn apart internationally for it.

Yet apparently hundreds(?) of U.N. soldiers commit REAL crimes, and the international reaction is to say "Oh, my", wring their hands, and decide something, sometime must be done about it.

If they pass a resolution condemning the crimes, don't look for anyone to get too excited about seeing any enforcement of the resolution. That was the reaction of Saddam, until "W" said "enough"!

Meantime, all the Jacksons and Polanslis and Lewis' of the world have their own little harmless playground, with official U.N. backing. Such a deal!

Posted by: Carlos on February 11, 2005 07:31 PM

Carlos,
I agree with your comments, but like to add one thing;
For the Soldiers that got 'caught' in the 'AbuGrab' scandal; They're going to jail! As for the U.N. people in the Congolese Scandal - to quote the U.S. Ambassador there in charge: 'I've SENT a DOZEN HOME....'!
I would have thought some would be PUT IN JAIL? Or otherwise put throught the International Court of Justice that the U.N. and E.U. love to wave in out faces?
Sicko's.

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UN and the liberals need to be sent to Iran with only a roll of toilet paper and a cross tatooed on their foreheads.

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"It's f**king f**ked."
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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs.
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