Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base - Yahoo! NewsRwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.
Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said aid and U.N. workers knew rebels had occupied Luvungi town and surrounding villages in eastern Congo the day after the attack began on July 30.
More than three weeks later, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo has issued no statement about the atrocities and said Monday it still is investigating.
Cragin told The Associated Press by telephone that his organization was only able to get into the town, which he said is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from a U.N. military camp, after rebels ended their brutal spree of raping and looting
Africa has to be the most vicious place on Earth.
A lot of times in situations like this the UN peacekeepers are unable to leave their base--
Another example as to why the UN is a piece of **** organization.
The UN was never setup to be world police, so this comment is far off base.
Clearly not, which brings into question the existence of peace keeping soldiers under the UN.
PeteEU said:Where there is war and conflict, such things happen. Blaming the UN or anyone else but the rapists is just lame and partisan bs.
When UN Peacekeepers are completely incapable of keeping the peace you should know something is up. The idea that the UN is a "peacekeeping" force is a joke.
They are there to serve a diplomatic function at the behest of the government. They don't function in lieu of a nation's own army or security forces.
Maybe you should look up what a peacekeeper actually does.
United Nations peacekeeping is a unique and dynamic instrument developed by the Organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict create the conditions for lasting peace.
The term "peacekeeping" is not found in the United Nations Charter and defies simple definition. Dag Hammarskjöld, the second UN Secretary-General, referred to it as belonging to "Chapter Six and a Half" of the Charter, placing it between traditional methods of resolving disputes peacefully, such as negotiation and mediation under Chapter VI, and more forceful action as authorized under Chapter VII.
Today’s peacekeepers undertake a wide variety of complex tasks, from helping to build sustainable institutions of governance, to human rights monitoring, to security sector reform, to the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants.
When UN Peacekeepers are completely incapable of keeping the peace you should know something is up. The idea that the UN is a "peacekeeping" force is a joke.
Source: Voice of AmericaUN Secretary-General 'Outraged' by Congo Rapes, Launches Investigation
24 August 2010
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he is outraged by the rape and assault of more than 150 women by armed militants in eastern North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. Ban is sending a top U.N. official to investigate the attacks.
According to news reports, the rebel attacks took place between July 30th and August 3rd. The United Nations said it has a small peacekeeping base about 30 kilometers from the village. But according to spokesman Martin Nesirky, rebels blocked access of villagers to a nearby road and they could not report the attacks to outsiders. Nesirky said the peacekeepers learned of the rapes from a medical worker on August 12th, two weeks after they began.
The United Nations is providing medical help to the victims of the attacks.
A lot of times in situations like this the UN peacekeepers are unable to leave their base or are actually explicitly prohibited from communicating with locals, for whatever reason. I was listening to NPR a few days ago and they were reporting on a massive increase in rapes at Hatian refugee camps (set up following the flood), some of which were directly adjacent to UN bases but were unable to assist because they were ordered not to even communicate with the locals.
Failed there.
More forceful action meaning sitting and watching.
Well we know from this article alone that while these 200 women are getting raped by black men and there rights are being violated, the UN has done nada, because it is unable too for whatever political redtape BS. Which proves my point, that they are absolutely useless.
Not to mention they open the gates for anyone to enter there "peaceful enviournments" which soon turns into a bloody massacre (bosnia).
United Nations Peacekeeping
I'm trying to remember the exact quote from a movie, and it was a priest saying it so it may even be biblical in nature(I'm not sure), but it was something along the lines of "We should all fear evil men, but what we should fear more is the indifference of good men."
That certainley applies to this situation. What is more important, a list of rules that don't allow you to engage people partaking in violence against others? Or safeguarding the lives of those who are unable to defend themselves from such atrocities? We cannot profess to be a society that believes in human rights, and then say "oops, rape is occuring next door, can't do anything about it since its outside our AOR. That's believing in culture over humanity. I don't care if they are chartered "peacekeeping" forces that are defined by certain roles. As human beings, they should have prevented this.
I'm trying to remember the exact quote from a movie, and it was a priest saying it so it may even be biblical in nature(I'm not sure), but it was something along the lines of "We should all fear evil men, but what we should fear more is the indifference of good men."
That certainley applies to this situation. What is more important, a list of rules that don't allow you to engage people partaking in violence against others? Or safeguarding the lives of those who are unable to defend themselves from such atrocities? We cannot profess to be a society that believes in human rights, and then say "oops, rape is occuring next door, can't do anything about it since its outside our AOR. That's believing in culture over humanity. I don't care if they are chartered "peacekeeping" forces that are defined by certain roles. As human beings, they should have prevented this.
UN peacekeepers 'failed' DR Congo rape victims[SIZE]
UN peacekeepers have "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said.
Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of systematic rape by armed rebels was far worse than feared.
He said that up to 500 women and children were now believed raped in recent weeks - more than double the previously reported figure.
He called for the prosecution of Rwandan and Congolese rebels who are blamed for many of the attacks.
"At the same time a concerted response from the government, from the international community is needed to maintain pressure on the perpetrators of these rapes and to bring them to justice," he told the BBC's World Today programme.
Mr Khare, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, was sent to DR Congo by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to investigate the attacks in July and August.
BBC
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