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Posted on 11/17/2007 7:11:47 AM PST by XR7
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 — The United States has failed to obtain a General Assembly resolution focused on rape used by governments and armed groups to achieve political and military objectives.
A General Assembly committee has instead adopted a resolution that reiterates past condemnations of rape in general but eliminates language in the American draft making specific reference to rape employed by soldiers and militia members as a tactic for intimidation and in warfare.
United Nations officials have identified the tactic as one used frequently by government-supported janjaweed militias in Sudan to terrorize the population of the Darfur region.
The nonbinding measure was watered down in response to objections from South Africa and Angola, acting on behalf of the Africa Group, a 43-nation coalition...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You beat me to it. The Useless Nations.
At least some of the world’s objection to this has to stem from the phony charges of there being Serbian rape factories in the 90s on which slammite women moved from station to station on conveyor belts getting raped. It was easier to buy off on if you were stoned....
“Jobs program for third world bureaucrats.”
Jeane Kirckpatrick
In other words, the United States and NATO have a wolf-crying problem on this one.
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"Meesa always say if da chick don wan to know den jest foget her!" |
The "international community" continues to impress!
So rape stays in. How about waterboarding?
Maybe Brian DePalma will do a movie about this.
I can understand the UN’s reasoning. UN troops use rape as a “recreational” tactic rather than an “intimidation” tactic.
Who knew that rape had a constituency?
I don't see any evidence of that in the article. Do you have additional evidence that previous allegations of rape by NATO/US in the Balkans has anything to do with this?
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Qualifications?
Rape, murder, arson and rape!
But you said "rape" twice?
I like rape!
...Kinky!
Then their own UN Soldiers would have to stop doing it on such a grand scale in Third World Countries.
That would be like them prosecuting Kofi Annan and his equally corrupt son for the billions they stole by selling Saddam's oil back in the day.
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