In the News today...

(Probably news that you won’t ever hear on your regular news station and even if you did it would probably be sometime long after what is going on with Paris Hilton and Michael Vick, but maybe just before the feature on the hot dog festival in Podunk, New Jersey.)

My best friend sent me this link to the article...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/30/congo.rape.reut/index.html


Congolese women and girls being gang raped, sometimes even by their family members, and then forced to eat excrement and flesh of loved ones...



How is this not headlined news? How is this just a blurb in the lowest corner of your newspaper? How is Paris Hilton’s new wardrobe more newsworthy?



I’m stunned that I can’t find very much information on this particular article. Apparently the UN is aware that the abuse and violence against women exists in Congo (and in every other country around the world), but even the 16,000 peacekeepers that they’ve sent there haven’t done a damn thing to deter this from happening. How is this normal and OK? What in the bloody hell is the purpose of the UN sending these peacekeepers to these places if they aren’t even going to help the situation out any? And, excuse me, but where are the NGO’s, such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch? I know there are A LOT of terrible things happening in this world right now, but this is pretty appalling...even more extreme than some of the other issues highlighted on both of their websites, in my opinion.



It literally makes me want to vomit.

 

I'm gonna get sick. Really. That is DISGUSTING.

 

The Congelese Civil War has been the most deadly battle in human history since World War 2. It started in 1998, and sort of ended in 2003.

Sort of ended, meaning the government is controlled by verious ethnic armies, who have policies of gang raping to try to make the country more ethnically "pure".

Murderous clashes are common as well. This war has always been a foot note in western media. Apparently 4 million dead Congolese are worth about one paris Hilton in jail.

 

because we like to gloss over news that doesnt affect us directly. its not part of the "civilized" world so why should it be in our news? nevermind the fact that they are just as human as us, that their capacity for suffering is the same as ours. fuckign society

 

HOW can you people even THINK of the Congelese Civil war at a time like THIS!!! Nicole Richie is fucking pregnant and all you guys can think about is a stupid civil war!!!!!!

you all should be ashamed!!

 

i'm happy to see in a sidebar off that story that some kids in vegas won a letter writing campaign to have green beans mostly removed from their lunch options. apparently they were SUBPAR. can't blame them.

 

Aye, I heard about this quite awhile ago. It's very disturbing.

 

I don't understand they won't consider this and FGM genocide? Why do they get into racial relations, but not gender relations? I don't mean making all countries practice gender equality, but rather just making sure this violence doesn't happen.
If they were doing this to one race of people; both men and women we would be in there so fast, but because it's women no one cares.
If men are going to raise havoc in the world and create wars they need to protect us from their own violence. This is part of the reason I do not think women should be in the military, because in part they are cleaning up messes created over male egos.

 

What do you want the world to do?

Do you want the US to send a good 500,000 troops in there to settle things down?

That's the only real way of stopping lots of renegade armed guerrillas.

Won't truly happen... no one cares about the Congo, not enough resources, and everyone knows that Africans are inferior in the eyes of the global community.

Darfur wouldn't be so big if it wasn't a political strategy point for the liberals.

You can't fix the entire world... having the Western World butt into that situation will only increase the murder and instability. The "war" ended, that should be good enough for now.

 

Well, we went in to fight the Nazi's didn't we? What's the difference?

 

truth of the matter is, that the united nations forces in africa are no better than these guys. they do the same shit,on top of selling weapons to all sides..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6909664.stm
http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/graybill/

so,essentially the world has spoken,,an it says keep it going...

 

this makes my skin crawl....i just don't understand why...or how this could be going on. the U.S. was so fucking concerned about women in Afghanistan a few years back.it was on tv shows,news, everything. where the fuck is the awareness of this?...this is far far worse.

 

The BIGASS obvious difference.

The Nazis were a threat to global economy and to the direct security of the US and its allies.

Also, the US were forced into war by the Pearl Harbor... before that the US was only providing the allies with supplies... it had little to no interntion of actually sending troops over.

 

Sure we were.

 

The abuse and exploitation of women around the world is deplorable...this is just an extreme...

Gender equality, or even stopping the exploitation of women in general, should be an issue worth working for...but somehow it's not. I will never understand it...when 50% of the world population is abused and/or exploited, yet we can't seem to "fix" it...

*shakes head*

 

Very true. The UN is one of the most corrupt organizations on the face of this earth.

I shalt provide links so that I am not accused of "misinformation".

http://www.unisevil.com/temp213.htm
http://www.getusout.org/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/unantisem.html


The UN in Lebannon is a joke, the UN in Central America is a joke, the UN at the Suez Canal crisis was a joke, and the UN is Africa is a joke.

 

You're right..were Congo in Europe, there would be no difference

 

THE WESTERN WORLD IS IN NO POSITION TO FIX IT! (and has absolutely no want to fix it, if it doesn't have something to gain).

You have seen the results of the Western World trying to fix something...

It's not a pretty world.

 

Hey, man, whatever lies you believe, that's cool...

I'm just simply stating that the genocide that was happening over there against Jews is no different than the genocide of women and children...we went over to stop it...but we aren't doing a damn thing in Congo and practically every other third world country. Wait...what about the stuff in Serejevo...genocide was occuring there when we got involved...what's the difference in THAT???