May 27, 2004, Its No Longer Ironic that We are OFF the UN Human Rights Committee
There once was fool from Kennebunkport,
For whom war and torture were the first resort,
He flushed our moral authority and power,
Made the rest of humanity sour,
And those we dare accuse of abuses now have quite the retort.
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There once was a jerk from Texas,
Who spoke of the 'Evils in Axis',
Though AWOL from the Guard,
He sent our soldiers to war,
Proving once and for all he's the world's biggest jackass.
Posted by alicia at May 27, 2004 11:43 PM
Limericks? Why do you force me to resort to cheap Irish Jokes?
I thought this blog didn't encourage that sort of thing.
Maybe I'll just say na.
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Posted by Paddy O'Rhymer at May 28, 2004 01:11 PM
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Posted by the talking dog at May 28, 2004 09:53 PM
TD..That's Top Dog! Now, Crabby....Actually, Uncle Fester was my favorite, (a Dick Armitage look-alike if I ever saw one), but Morticia ruled the roost and that's okay. Crabby, you need a vacation so I hope this weekend provides that comfort. I'm going camping...Pray for our troops and their families ....TD, thanks again. You AND Mrs. TD have a grand weekend yourselves! I would have tried to stick to the limerick format, but alas I see you have switched gears, so I will too. Happy Memorial...you too, Crabby. I'll getcha next week!
Posted by alicia at May 28, 2004 10:12 PM
Is it ironic that the U.N. even has a human rights commission?
Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of sexual violence by UNAMSIL peacekeepers, including the rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Bo by a soldier of the Guinean peacekeeping contingent in March 2001 and the gang rape of a woman by two Ukrainian peacekeepers in April 2002 near Kenema (see below). There appears to be reluctance on the part of UNAMSIL to investigate and take disciplinary measures against the perpetrators.
Independent.co.uk.: Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering.
Amnesty International slammed the United Nations and NATO for not doing more to punish its people for contributing to what has become a flourishing sex industry in the Balkan country.
BBC: The UN says its staff have been illegally detained, while Eritrea accuses the peacekeepers of serious crimes including paedophilia.
An Unmee report last June quoted Eritrean women as saying Irish peacekeepers on the mission had used prostitutes as young as 15.
TCM: A UN peacekeeping soldier has been accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in Congo.The girl's family made the accusations against a Moroccan soldier serving in the mission in the eastern border town of Goma, UN spokeswoman Isabelle Broyer said.
The Independent: Nowhere is the problem uglier - or more embarrassing to the UN - than in Bosnia. The sex-slave industry scarcely existed here until the mid-Nineties."There is virtually no dispute any more that the issue of trafficking arose predominantly with the arrival of the peacekeeping troops in 1995," says Madeleine Rees, the head of the UN Office of the High Commission of Human Rights.
WEEKLY STANDARD: Two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory.
[NY Times and The Australian]
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