nope...
Posted on 08/04/2009 7:20:17 PM PDT by Cronos
It was around 11 p.m. when armed men burst into Kazungu Ziwa’s hut, put a machete to his throat and yanked down his pants. Mr. Ziwa is a tiny man, about four feet, six inches tall. He tried to fight back, but said he was quickly beaten down.“Then they raped me,” he said. “It was horrible, physically. I was dizzy. My thoughts just left me.”
For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men.
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Aid workers struggle to explain the sudden spike in male rape cases. The best answer, they say, is that the sexual violence against men is yet another way for armed groups to humiliate and demoralize Congolese communities into submission.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
aid organizations say that the military maneuvers have provoked horrific revenge attacks, with more than 500,000 people driven from their homes, dozens of villages burned and hundreds of villagers massacred, including toddlers thrown into open fires.
Aid workers here say the humiliation is often so severe that male rape victims come forward only if they have urgent health problems, like stomach swelling or continuous bleeding. Sometimes even that is not enough. Ms. Van Woudenberg said that two men whose penises were cinched with rope died a few days later because they were too embarrassed to seek help. Castrations also seem to be increasing, with more butchered men showing up at major hospitals.
Last year, Congo’s rape epidemic appeared to be easing a bit, with fewer cases reported and some rapists jailed. But today, it seems like that thin veneer of law and order has been stripped away. The way villagers describe it, it is open season on civilians.
Muhindo Mwamurabagiro, a tall, graceful woman with long, strong arms, explained how she was walking to the market with friends when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of naked men.
“They grabbed us by the throat and threw us down and raped us,” she said.
Worse, she said, one of the rapists was from her village.
“I yelled, ‘Father of Kondo, I know you, how can you do this?’
THIS IS HAPPENENING in THE U.S.
At this rate they might as well hand it back to the Belgians...and they were real bast*rds.
The horror, the horror.
Indeed.
In fact, for a long time the Congo was the personal property of the Belgian King.
Yes, well, it’s obvious that we need a NEW WORLD ORDER where all citizens live under UN law and we all sit around a campfire (... guess that’s out ... carbon & all ... maybe bust of leader) and sing about how happy we are all sharing & what not. Of course there will be no work because 1) it disrupts mother earth 2) Harmful chemicals & all that ... well we have huts & warmth of sun (now that we got that global warming going).
kum -—ba -= yahhh yahhh —
10 years ago while in a motel on vacation at a beach with my mother, during the night we were awakened by the sound of a man crying and screaming and begging for others “not to do that, please don’t do that,please, please don’t”. And we heard a bed rocking. Obviously the head boards were on adjoining walls... I called the desk and said I heard someone in trouble in the room next door. Then we tried to go back to sleep.
the next morning when we checked out, I asked the desk clerk if anyone had been injured. He said “no, just some guys having fun”
That sickened me and I have never been back to that motel..
More AIDS checks from Hussein are on the way!
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It was on the ocean and had been owned by the same family for 40+ years (that’s why we were there, it was my mother’s favorite).
Now, looking back, I wish I had called the police. Believe it or not, 10 years ago, I wasn’t thinking that the desk clerk wouldn’t intervein. I actually had not considered that homosexuals would attack non-homos... that has been a fairly recent discovery. I actually can’t imagine anything more sad or demeaning.
It really placed a chill on me. I haven’t even been back to that particular beach.
amen!!
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