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POPSUN-Backed Troops Accused of Killing & Raping Civilians British-based organization Oxfam said. Human Rights Watch said it documented the killings of 732 civilians between January and September by the Congolese army and troops from neighboring Rwanda fighting alongside it. In the same period, it counted 701 civilians killed by the rebels they are fighting. “Some victims were tied together before their throats were, according to one witness, ’slit like chickens.’ The majority of the victims were women, children, and the elderly,” the group said. More than 7,500 cases of sexual violence against women and girls were registered at health centers during that nine-month period, nearly double that of 2008 and likely representing only a fraction of the total. Gateway Pundit Jim Hoyt http://bit.ly/6H6ewH Previously: UN Soldiers Arrested in Congo On Sex Abuse Charges UN Peacekeepers Trade Food for Sex… Again! UN Slapped with New Child Sex Scandal UN Faces Another Child Sex Scandal
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POPSHow fair is fair trade? To be honest I never felt right about the market manipulation aspect of fair trade. I know that large companies have used market manipulation to exploit poor farmers for years. However the cure for market manipulation isn't different manipulation, it is an attempt to really have a free market system.
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POPSWho are Leakey's Angels? The third of Leakey's Angels is Birute Galdikas, a German-born Canadian who was introduced to Leakey in the 1970s. Unlike Goodall and Fossey, Galdikas actually had training and experience in the field, and she approached Leakey to discuss the studying of orangutans. Her studies took place in the jungles of Indonesia. Galdikas is credited with coining the term “Leakey's Angels,” discussing the three women in a 1995 book.
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POPSYou Are A Wimp (So Am I) "Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestling match"
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POPSPeace in the Congo - When? The Congo is blessed with wonderful people and resources that ought to enrich them. Greed by corrupt corporations and individuals over those resources has driven political instability since the 1960's. That instability allowed terrorists from Rwanda and Uganda to fuel violence in the border areas. Like Darfur in the Sudan, if we look aside, the violence picks up again. Please don't look away until the world agrees to stay the course and end the violence.
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POPSThere is Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan and Then There is The Congo! The genocide of Rwanda-Burundi ended there and moved next door into the Congo where there has been ongoing wars and rebellion over its riches since the 1960's - yes, the 1960s. As per usual, it is about money and the power that lets the money flow into the hands of North American and European companies. The latest real driver of child soldiers, rape as war policy, thousands being killed weekly? Uranium and chromium are still important but the rare earths and minerals that have been powering cell phone were the latest and greatest. So who has been paying for the deaths and rapes in the Congo? You and me, texting, web surfing and twittering on our phones keeps the wars going!
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POPSCongo Basin Genocide: Truth and Reconciliation? Read and wonder will the world stand by the next genocide - well it already is taking place in the Sudan. Figuring out why we let this happen and how we play into it is step one for preventing the next one and ending this one - no?
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POPSSocialites Without Borders Teach Rwandans How To Mingle
Arriving on private jets from their headquarters in Martha's Vineyard, volunteers from Socialites Without Borders touched down in northern Rwanda early Sunday morning. Following an extravagant luncheon held in their honor, the charitable luminaries were driven by limousine to a nearby refugee camp, where they provided impoverished villagers with emergency lessons in everything from making small talk, to name-dropping, to drastically improving one's life by marrying a wealthy steel magnate. "Always remember to keep things light and breezy when mingling," Danielle Watters, a real estate heiress, was overheard advising a group of war-ravaged amputees. "Talk about where you recently summered, or what boarding school you went to. When you feel at a loss for words, perhaps try remarking on the stunning architecture of the tent you're in." Enlarge Image Table Setting Ordinary Rwandans have been urged to put aside any latent tribal hostility and never forget to place water goblets to th
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POPSDiscipling Workers in the U.A.E. with the Audio Bible Through strong partnerships with the Bible Society in the Gulf and local pastors, Faith Comes By Hearing is discipling workers with God’s Word in audio.Local pastors are using outreach and discipleship efforts there among the immigrant laborers.
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POPS"universal jurisdiction" over the world's most serious crimes In April 2000 the UN Security Council admitted responsibility for failing to stop the Rwandan genocide. The Canadian Foreign Minister, Bill Graham, said that 10 years after the genocide the international community had still not learned how to stop such killings from happening again. "We lack the political will to achieve the necessary agreement on how to put in place the type of measures that will prevent a future Rwanda from happening," he said. The head of the small UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda at the time, Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, said that no-one was interested in saving Rwandans and the bulk of his force was ordered to leave. He suggested that attitudes now had not changed.
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POPSCanada convicts Rwandan of genocide The UN estimates that more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the genocide. This case is obviously clear cut, but I wonder at countries being able to do this. I thought we had a world Court for this sort of crime.
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