"A damning indictment of the part played by the country's Islamist dictatorship in the humanitarian catastrophe."
"United Nations: Sudan carried out mass-rapes in Darfur," by David Byers for the Times Online:
The United Nations today accused the Sudanese government of being directly involved in the mass-rape of girls and women in the crisis-hit region of Darfur — a damning indictment of the part played by the country's Islamist dictatorship in the humanitarian catastrophe.
A report by the UN high commissioner for human rights says it has evidence that the Sudanese Army was involved alongside Arab militia in looting at least three towns, raping girls and women and killing at least 115 people.
The attacks on Sirba, Sileia and Abu Suruj on February 8 by helicopter gunships and aircraft caused 30,000 to flee their homes, Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in her report.
The study is the latest authoritative UN report, based on eye-witness testimonies and evidence from aid workers, suggesting that President Omar al-Bashir's administration is providing help and support to the brutal Arab janjaweed militia, who have reportedly robbed villages and murdered, raped or displaced their residents.
Last year, a UN report produced photographic evidence that the Sudanese government was carrying out secret bombing raids by disguising its jets as United Nations aid planes. Sudan denies the claims.
The UN says that the crisis afflicting the wartorn Darfur region has so far killed up to 400,000 people, and displaced a further 2.3 million, and campaigners have called on governments worldwide to isolate Mr al-Bashir's regime for its involvement.
“The scale of destruction suggests that the damage was a deliberate and integral part of a military strategy,” the nine-page report on the rapes said.
Ok...Now what are you going to do?
Oh come on now, isn't this the way to spread true "World Peace"?
Senator John Kerry D-Ma was on the radio 3/20/08 saying Senator Obama D-IL would make a sterling President because he has a black face and so would make America more acceptable to these emissaries from the RoP ....
:-D RotFL :-D
And he's one of the "Best and Brightest" charged with protecting us...
:.( RotFC :.(
Mass-Rape of females as a war tactic is a commonplace. It's been done since warfare began. Women have always feared rape in times of war. Read Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" and read the atrocities committed against the Chinese females (all ages) by the Japanese soldiers. It's said that Iris Chang killed herself ( a few years ago) because the pain and suffering and horror and evil she encountered while researching her book brought her down so low about mankind that she just couldn't bear it. Read books about the Serbian atrocities against females, "Srebrenicka,"
as an example. Right now in the "Democratic (LOL) Republic of the Congo" mass rape of females is and has been taking place on orders of the psychopath President. In fact, NBC just did a huge story on it, with Ann Curry interviewing raped females in hospitals who will never have full use of their bodily functions again after being gang-raped. The horror these women endure is unimaginable.
Of course the Islamic government of Sudan is complicit in the mass rapes of the Christian and animist African females (all ages). Of course it is. Mass-rape of females is a long-established war tactic. It goes without saying.
In a scene from "The Tin Drum," the film based on Gunter Grass's novel, Russian soldiers discover a group of women in hiding and immediately start raping them. I couldn't watch it. The main reason German cinema is much more brutal than French or Italian is because it's much more Realist.
Someone told me one day that if we diplomats reach an agreement and in the interval everyone else is killed - they will declare a diplomatic success. Such is the UN. So what is the solution... Let innocent people be killed or take action. The UN can't because it is controlled by the killers. Come on US do something good - perhaps some cruise missile to get rid of the Sudanese leadership would be just for the lives it would save and the point it would make.
I don't know the people who have been killed but it still pains me nevertheless.
Some goes for Israel take out the leadership of the enemy. Top down is better than bottom up. ...and so what anothe UN condemnation.. another sh*t fit fron Rice.. NEVER AGAIN
Since a good bit of our military is tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, we don't have the troops to invade the Sudan.
Don't expect the Europeans to jump into the breach. In fact, in Sweden, there has been an huge increase in the number of rapes since the immigration of.........................................censored by PC police.
Film: "Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, War and Women" :
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c171.shtml
darcy, you forgot to mention the rape of children and the trafficking of young girls by UN "Peacekeepers" in the Democratic Congo. And with whom were the Peacekeepers at war, I wonder, where they had to traffic in the sex slave trade? Here is a snippet from a larger article about Dyncorp's sex trade in Bosnia:
Sex Trafficking
What's more, Kathryn Bolkovac, a United Nations International Police Force monitor, filed a lawsuit in Britain in 2001 against DynCorp for firing her after she reported that Dyncorp police trainers in Bosnia were paying for prostitutes and participating in sex trafficking. Many of the Dyncorp employees were forced to resign under suspicion of illegal activity. But none were prosecuted, since they enjoy immunity from prosecution in Bosnia.
Earlier that year Ben Johnston, a DynCorp aircraft mechanic for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in Kosovo, filed a lawsuit against his employer. The suit alleged that that in the latter part of 1999 Johnson "learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts."
The suit charges that "Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." "DynCorp is just as immoral and elite as possible, and any rule they can break they do," Johnston told Insight magazine. He charged that the company also billed the Army for unnecessary repairs and padded the payroll. "What they say in Bosnia is that DynCorp just needs a warm body -- that's the DynCorp slogan. Even if you don't do an eight-hour day, they'll sign you in for it because that's how they bill the government. It's a total fraud."
Let's see, they've killed 400,000 people, evicted 2.3 million, disguised their military vehicles as aid vehicles, committed mass rape, and the response? "Calling for" the "isolation" of the regime.
Let's see, the Muslim Janjaweed has displaced 2.3 million people with no response from the world community. According to the CIA, there are 1.8 million Muslims living in the U.S.
If you didn't look and listen you wouldn't even know this was happening. Imagine the world outcry if the U.S. or Israel did anything even remotely compared to this. The family dog would know whats going on. How often we hear of the 'holocaust' going on in phallustine, or the American gulag in Guantanamo Bay? Or those crimes against humanity perpetrated at abu gharib possibly including, yes, yes, sadly to say WATERBOARDING! The left is just sooo damn intelligent! The honorable, respectful, holy, prophetic, most reverend Wright has alluded to chickens coming home to roost. They are comming home soon, but not because of our war crimes, no because of our stupidness.
Sudanese government was carrying out secret bombing raids by disguising its jets as United Nations aid planes. Sudan denies the claims
of course they would ther just following muhamuds example
Darcy wrote:
Of course the Islamic government of Sudan is complicit in the mass rapes of the Christian and animist African females (all ages). Of course it is. Mass-rape of females is a long-established war tactic. It goes without saying.
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In a scene from "The Tin Drum," the film based on Gunter Grass's novel, Russian soldiers discover a group of women in hiding and immediately start raping them.
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Darcy, I certainly do agree that there is a long and terrible history of mass rape of women in wartime. I disagree, however, that it is inevitable.
Whenever you read about American soldiers in Iraq committing rape, they always refer to the same case--where an Iraqi teenager was raped and members of her family killed in 2006.
This was a hideous case. But it appears to be the only one documented. If those critical of the war--everyone from jihadists to Western peaceniks--could point to more instances, surely they would.
The very anti-American film Redacted features a rape scene--clearly based on the terrible 2006 crime.
Those responsible were tried and convicted. It isn't American policy to terrorise women through rape.
This is not new. You refer above to the scene in The Tin Drum where German women are assaulted by Soviet troops. This was horribly common.
There are a number of memoirs by women in Berlin during the last days of the war. When houses were searched by the allies, German families were always relieved if they were searched by American or British troops, rather than Russians, because they would not engage in rape.
No civilized nation uses rape as a tactic of war. To use it against your own people, as Sudan does, is perhaps even more horrifying.
It would be a huge mistake for us to get directly involved with troops in Darfur. We might be heros initially, but given a few weeks or months, and once the Imams get fired up in their Mosques, we'll just be another bunch of dirty Infidels occupying holy Islamic soil.
We should be aware at all times when making decisions about involvement in the Muslim world, that we are not dealing with rational people.
Hi Jauhara -
Here's the definition of hypocrisy: 1.Feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. 2. The false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion.
Such are your UN "peacekeepers." And about a gazillion other hypocrites of the world. Unfortunately, hypocrisy is a main characteristic of the human condition. I believe that's one reason people become misanthropes, along with other reasons, of course.
I read awhile back about a DA (District Attorney) in Texas who was discovered to be a child predator, posting online to young boys and arranging assignations. That is a hypocrite (see above defintion). Apparently the UN's got'em too. No surprise. I'm not only an IslamoRealist, I'm pretty much a Realist about everything. "La vie un rose" is not my, generally speaking, personal philosophy. So, I see your point and am not disputing it. Appearances are deceiving.
Hi Jauhara -
Here's the definition of hypocrisy: 1.Feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. 2. The false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion.
Such are your UN "peacekeepers." And about a gazillion other hypocrites of the world. Unfortunately, hypocrisy is a main characteristic of the human condition. I believe that's one reason people become misanthropes, along with other reasons, of course.
I read awhile back about a DA (District Attorney) in Texas who was discovered to be a child predator, posting online to young boys and arranging assignations. That is a hypocrite (see above defintion). Apparently the UN's got'em too. No surprise. I'm not only an IslamoRealist, I'm pretty much a Realist about everything. "La vie un rose" is not my, generally speaking, personal philosophy. So, I see your point and am not disputing it. Appearances are deceiving.
Many apologies, Jauhara - "La vie en rose."
Don't know what I was thinking. Sorry for the typo.
One of my favorite songs, but not philosophy.
This is not new. You refer above to the scene in The Tin Drum where German women are assaulted by Soviet troops. This was horribly common.
There are a number of memoirs by women in Berlin during the last days of the war. When houses were searched by the allies, German families were always relieved if they were searched by American or British troops, rather than Russians, because they would not engage in rape. --gravenimage
So, you've seen the film. Right, I couldn't watch it after that scene.
I understand what you're saying in your whole post.
Can't wait for the tersely worded letter from the UN.
Islam....the religion of war and rape and murder and disfigurement and pedophilia and forced marriage and religious intolerance and so much more.
Our military is spread too thin to handle these punks?
HA!
Whoever believes that has absolutely no concept of the vast power that is the United States Armed Forces.
It would take the equivalent power of our combined Armed Forces little finger to obliterate these animals right down to the last scumbag.
darcy thus spake: "La vie un rose" is not my, generally speaking, personal philosophy. So, I see your point and am not disputing it. Appearances are deceiving." Forget the typo, hon....where these monsters and hypocrites are concerned, let us just say, "La Vie est Ruse" (life is a ruse)Of course, that probably ain't the French word, but if they are offended, what's new.
No civilized nation uses rape as a tactic of war. To use it against your own people, as Sudan does, is perhaps even more horrifying.
-by gravenimage
Odds are they don't consider the women they are raping to be "their own people". They are virtual strangers to those who occupy the north. They're of a different tribe or tribes. As long as tribal rivalries carry the day, multiple tribes within the same nation-state are a recipe for unending conflict and eternal civil war.
>>They're of a different tribe or tribes. As long as tribal rivalries carry the day, multiple tribes within the same nation-state are a recipe for unending conflict and eternal civil war.
Posted by: PMK at March 21, 2008 5:53 PM
Brigitte Gabriel has described the Moslem countries as "tribes with flags."
darcy,
If only each tribe had its own flag. They just don't know how to share.
Personally, I think Bashir is out of time. We need to begin drawing up plans to bomb Khartoum, and also to send some troops to the Southern side of the N-S border. That country will not know peace as long as Bashir is in power. But not because he's Islamist--the same thing happens in Congo (80%+ Christian). The Bashir regime must go because he's a genocidal lunatic!
What's taking the UN so long is trying to figure out some way to blame it all on the US.
If America acts, it is an hegemonic bully.
If it doesn't, it is complicit in genocide.
The UN prefers to wring its hands and dither rather than stop horrors.
They're best at accusing, not achieving.
There is one crucial difference between the rape that often occurs in time of war and that which occurs during jihad. In these other cases, once the war ends and order is restored mass rape ends. Under Islam, on the other hand, it is institutionalized as sexual slavery, concubinage and the culture of the harem. Furthermore, it is given scriptural sanction.
The Islamic sexual system is a major factor in the amazing expansion of Islam. And that is why it is so difficult to reform Muslim attitudes toward women. Such reform would amount to undermining one of the prime reasons for the very existence of Islam.
PMK and Darcy, point well taken. I'm sure that the "Arabs" of northern Sudan do not consider the "blacks" of southern Sudan to be "their own people" in any significant way, even when they supposedly share a religion.