Yet Another UN Scandal
From the Indpendent (UK):Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering.
The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers.
Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers.
The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation.
Matt's Chat
I'm quite sure that on tonight's news, we'll hear Nancy "Botox" Pelosi and Teddy "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy denounce this. But I won't hold my breath.Why won't American media cover UN scandals? Britain doesn't seem to have a problem doing so...
Mark's Remarks
This goes far beyond Abu Gharib in my opinion. Making mothers sell their bodies to UN peacekeepers simply to feed their children? Is this what the UN endorses? Where is the outrage over this? Where is the demands for full accountability? After all, we pay for this crap the UN is doing, as we are the largest contributor to the waste of space that is the UN. Of course, the Liberal Press cannot challenge the UN, for it is their ideal....A world government which does nothing but posture, which only issues warnings but never enforces, a world government which is, in many ways, a joke.
Think about it...this is who John Waffles Kerry and the Dimocraps want to turn our national security over to. They allow their soldiers to rape 13 year olds, and to rape children. Yet no one says or does anything about it. Think about that before you vote for John Kerry and his leftist pals.
