Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

[evanovitch]

Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base
.By MICHELLE FAUL

-JOHANNESBURG — Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women <span style="font-weight: bold">and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base </span>in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said.

Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said Monday that 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 and withdrew of their own accord on Aug. 4.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, spokesman Martin Nesirky said Monday that a U.N. Joint Human Rights team verified allegations of the rape of at least 154 women by combatants from the Rwandan rebel FDLR group and Congolese Mai-Mai rebels in the village of Bunangiri. He said the victims are receiving medical and psycho-social care.

Nesirky said the U.N. peacekeeping mission has a military company operating base in Kibua, some 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) east of the village, but he said FDLR attackers blocked the road and prevented villagers from reaching the nearest communication point.

Civil society leader Charles Masudi Kisa said there <span style="font-weight: bold">were only about 25 peacekeepers</span> and that they did what they could against some 200 to 400 rebels who occupied the town of about 2,200 people and five nearby villages.

[jah_yout]

Re: Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

the fight is real

[evanovitch]

Re: Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the fight is real </div></div>


hell yes the rapes r real...as r the murder of albinos....a Kenyan juss get jail time fi trying to sell an Albino to a Tanzanian witchdoctor


u cannot blind ur eyes to the atrocities that some Africans r visiting on other Africans....and women and children r the first set upon


btw, u need to watch a documentary on Nollywood...made by the Nigerians themselves it tells u y their videos r so commercially successful in nigeria and across the continent to the extent that other African nations r going to Nigeria to learn the art of their film making

added to that , is the fact that the prosperity religion that the supposed Christian church in Nigeria has embraces is now using the movie making to fuse the suppose primitive beliefs wid dere brand of Christianity and mekking millions on it...


fasincating documentary...u wan to see how people prey on people

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">u cannot blind ur eyes to the atrocities that some Africans r visiting on other Africans...</div></div>


never dat....
nyabinghi crede is death to black &amp; white oppressors;

wi goin a afrika to fulfill the works;

membah seh joseph was sold into slavery inna egypt and a him same one returned one day to redeem his brothers;
and so it is wid rasta pickney a forward up a zion

[Wahalla]

Re: Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

Here is the question: if as soon as the rebels occupied the town, had the UN launched a pre-emptive strike what would the reaction be ?

If in the middle of the gang rape the UN launched a pre-emptive strike what would the reaction be given that Africans would die?

I mean I read posts where the UN was condemened as a occuping force in Sudan...?

Where was the Congolese authorities ???

[evanovitch]

Re: Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

the issue of a pre-emptive strike is moot given the ridiculous number of the UN force plus , if we r to believe, their own involvement in rapes in countries they occupy....the male mentality is the factor and dat is not being addressed

nor r women being treated as human beings in the equation of global politics

the incidence of rape is a known factor in circumstances such as wat continues in the CONGO...there is no forward thinking or even the pretense of addressing this issue of women as pawns in conflicts

[jah_yout]

Re: Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here is the question: if as soon as the rebels occupied the town, had the UN launched a pre-emptive strike what would the reaction be ?

If in the middle of the gang rape the UN launched a pre-emptive strike what would the reaction be given that Africans would die?

I mean I read posts where the UN was condemened as a occuping force in Sudan...?

Where was the Congolese authorities ??? </div></div>

&quot;congolese authorities&quot; is an oxymoron...
congo is so mineral-rich that in my opinion a proxy war is being fought there between the world economic powers who congo's natural resources are vital to their industries...
i read the post you speak of...at the end of the day marcus garvey was a true visionary in that he saw that the only hope for africa is in controlling its own resources/ destiny instead of foreign powers controlling thhiose things as they now do...
atrocities including rape is nothing new in africa or the world...demonic things are done everyday in war...it is the human condition;
there will be a day of reckoning