United Nations Is Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity

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Please contribute to this thread any articles, past or present that will complete the picture.

This thread will obviously include the United Nations ongoing persecution of Israel. Out of over 700 resolutions against any nation the United nations has more than 300 directed at Israel.....

It's disgusting and intolerable to allow this organization under the guise of UNITED anything to take our taxes for funding its criminal and power hungry support and promotion of terrorism.

Not only that, the leaders of this United Criminals Nations should stand trial for Crimes against Humanity as well as Grand Theft.

(for Theft see post #3&4 here)
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U.N. Disgraces Itself: Sentences Sudanese to Death

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"On May 4, American ambassador Sichan Siv, walking out of the U.N. Human Rights Commission in disgust after it had re-elected Sudan to membership, said to The New York Sun, "The least we should be able to do is not elect a country to the only global body charged specifically with protecting human rights, at the precise time when tens of thousands of its citizens are being murdered or being left to die of starvation." It's "Never Again" again."

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The Sudan Genocide

"Arab Muslims Are Viciously Killing and Raping Black Muslims. So Where Is the World?"

""On Friday, Sudan escaped U.N. censure with barely a slap on the wrist, rather than the harsh denunciation it deserved. The commission voted to express 'concern' about the situation in Darfur, stopping short of a formal condemnation."

Remember the black African parents' choice: You want your children burned alive or shot to death?

Then, on May 4, the primary source of this genocide was elected to serve a three-year term on the U.N. Human Rights Commission! "

Executions, Ill Treatment and Torture in Sudan


Sudanese Arabs have turned on the black Fur minority in Darfur: Genocide Charges

World fails to stop Darfur atrocities

systematic murder & rape of hundreds of women by the government backed Arab armed militia, the Janjawid

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troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp
By Cahal Milmo
25 May 2004
UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp

Sex and death in the heart of Africa

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.

The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers.

Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers.

The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation.

One girl, Faela, 13, whose son, Joseph, is not yet six months old, has described how the social stigma of her fatherless child, the result of repeated rape by militiamen in her village, mean she is treated like a pariah in the chaotic and violent Bunia camp, which is home to 15,000 people.

She said: "It is hard in the camp for the girls like me with little babies and no husbands. We have no men to look after us. We have been dirtied by the soldiers who came to our villages. No one will take us as their wives and it is hard to get food in the camp for us."

She added: "It is easy for us to get to the UN soldiers. We climb through the fence when it is dark, sometimes once a night, sometimes more."

During a five-day period, The Independent spoke to more than 30 girls, half of whom said they made the 20-metre journey from the camp to gaps in the wire fences of the compound run by Monuc, the UN mission in Congo.

One worker, employed by Atlas, the aid group that manages the camp, confirmed that staff were aware of the trade in sex but were too frightened to tackle it.

He said: "There is nothing to stop them and the girls need food. It is best to keep quiet, though. I am frightened that if I say something I may lose my job and I have children of my own to feed."

The UN has announced its own inquiry into the allegations, warning that it will apply "all available sanctions" against those responsible. But doubts remain about the effectiveness of the investigation and the ability of the UN to bring those responsible to justice.

Dominique McAdams, the head of the UN in Bunia, said she believed that there was sexual violence in the camp, but said she had yet to see any evidence.

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_re...&host=3&dir=69

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Excerpt :
"Like other United Nations agencies, World Bank rules prevent staff from testifying in public so Wolfensohn was not at the hearing. But senior bank officials on Monday privately briefed lawmakers on its anti-corruption efforts, a bank spokesman said. "



World Bank Corruption May Top $100 Billion

Thu May 13, 4:14 PM ET

By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corrupt use of World Bank (news - web sites) funds may exceed $100 billion and while the institution has moved to combat the problem, more must be done, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday.


Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), an Indiana Republican, charged that "in its starkest terms, corruption has cost the lives of uncounted individuals contending with poverty and disease."


He commended World Bank President James Wolfensohn for bringing greater attention to the issue, but said, "Corruption remains a serious problem."


Lugar opened a hearing on corruption at the multilateral development banks, the first public examination in an ongoing Senate investigation.


He cited experts who calculated that between $26 billion and $130 billion of the money lent by the World Bank for development projects since 1946 has been misused. In 2003, the bank distributed $18.5 billion in developing countries.


Jeffrey Winters, an associate professor at Northwestern University, said his research suggested corruption wasted about $100 billion of World Bank funds, and when other multilateral development banks are included, the total rises to about $200 billion.


Damian Milverton, a bank spokesman, later disputed the $100 billion estimate, insisting it had "no basis in fact."


"We completely reject the figure offered by one of the panelists as an estimate of funding from the World Bank that might have been misused," Milverton told Reuters.


Winters testified that the World Bank's anti-corruption effort was having "minimal effects" and the banks should all focus on supervising and auditing their lending.


"The lion's share of the theft of development funds occurs in the implementation of projects and the use of loan funds by client governments," he said.


Like other United Nations (news - web sites) agencies, World Bank rules prevent staff from testifying in public so Wolfensohn was not at the hearing. But senior bank officials on Monday privately briefed lawmakers on its anti-corruption efforts, a bank spokesman said.


Carole Brookins, the U.S. executive director on the World Bank board, defended the bank saying it was leading efforts to fight corruption, but acknowledged "there is more that could be done to strengthen the system."


More than 180 companies and individuals have been blacklisted from doing business with the World Bank and their names and penalties posted on the bank's public Web site.


Between July 2003 and March 2004, it said it referred 18 cases of fraud or corruption to national justice authorities based on investigations by its anti-corruption unit.


Specific bank projects under review by the committee include the Yacyreta dam on the Argentina-Paraguay border, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and projects in Cambodia.


Hector Morales, acting U.S. executive director to the Inter-American Development Bank, testified that his institution recently accelerated anti-corruption efforts "but still has much work to do."


Corruption may have cost 100 billion to World Bank projects: US senator

Friday May 14, 4:56 AM

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Corruption may have have sapped as much as 100 billion dollars from World Bank lending projects to help poor countries, a key US senator said.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Richard Lugar said if the figure presented to his panel by one university professor were accurate, it would seriously undermine the organization's efforts to fight global poverty.

The World Bank hotly disputed the figure of 100 billion dollars, adding that there was no basis for that estimate, but said the organization was working to stem corruption.

Lugar, who chaired a hearing on corruption involving multilateral lending agencies, cited an estimate by Jeffrey Winters of Northwestern University that the World Bank had participated "mostly passively in the corruption of roughly 100 billion dollars of its loan funds intended for development."

Lugar said, "Other experts estimate that between five percent and 25 percent of the 525 billion dollars that the World Bank has lent since 1946 has been misused. This is equivalent to between 26 billion and 130 billion dollars. Even if corruption is at the low end of estimates, millions of people living in poverty may have lost opportunities to improve their health, education, and economic condition."

"We completely reject the figure offered by one of the panelists," said World Bank spokesman Damian Milverton. "It has no basis in fact."

Milverton said the Bank had no estimate of its own on funds lost to corruption, but said officials took this seriously and had barred 180 companies and individuals from doing business with the Bank because of corruption or other wrongdoing.

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Poorest pay for World Bank corruption: US senator

by Emad Mekay
The World Bank has lost about 100 billion dollars slated for development in the world's poorest nations to corruption since 1946, nearly 20 percent of its total lending portfolio, according to a US. Senate committee. Inter Press Service May 14/2004

WASHINGTON: World Bank has lost about 100 billion dollars slated development world's poorest nations corruption since 1946, nearly 20 percent its total lending portfolio, according U.S. Senate committee.
"It critical every development bank dollar reaches its intended recipient," said Sen Dick Lugar, chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday. "Unfortunately, not happening – corruption remains serious problem."

Lugar cited one panellists source massive figure. Jeffrey Winters Northwestern University, who testified before hearing, estimated World Bank "has participated mostly passively corruption roughly 100 billion dollars its loan funds intended development."

Other experts estimate between five 25 percent 525 billion dollars Bank has lent since 1946 has been misused. amounts 26-130 billion dollars.

"Even if corruption low end estimates, millions people living poverty may have lost opportunities improve their health, education economic condition," Lugar said.

A World Bank spokesman vehemently disputed estimate. "We completely reject figure offered one panellists," said Damian Milverton. "It has basis fact."

Corruption has become global issue developing countries, watchdog groups some economists complain poor nations lose huge funds multilateral development banks (MDBs) like World Bank because misuse money. Yet taxpayers those borrowing countries have still repay banks.

"So, not only are impoverished cheated out development benefits, are left repay resulting debts banks," Lugar added.

The estimates emerged first series oversight hearings into anti-corruption efforts World Bank other multilateral development banks (MDBs), which include Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, European Bank Reconstruction Development.

Testifying Thursday's hearing were U.S. representatives World Bank IDB, well four outside experts.

Manish Bapna, executive director Washington-based watchdog group Bank Information Centre (BIC), said corruption threatens core mission those banks: poverty alleviation.

"While MDBs profess 'zero tolerance' corruption their projects programmes, rhetorical commitment has not always been meaningfully implemented," Bapna said.

Corruption can undermine development impact banks' projects, example, if contractors use diluted cement civil works like road-building, officials perm illegal timber harvesting restricted forest areas, grant profitable public contracts well-connected cronies government officials.

Another example mentioned hearing project Lesotho, Africa. Last year court country convicted director Lesotho Highland Water Authority, well two international contractors who had paid bribes, corruption awarding contracts. World Bank financed part project.

Professor Jerome I Levinson Washington College Law American University referred particular case, suggested remedy such actions.

"The World Bank, potentially, has an effective, if draconian, remedy," he said. "It could place international contractors on a proscribed list barring them bidding on any future World Bank financed projects anywhere world."

The bank says its list barred companies individuals now includes 90 names.

Levinson noted such projects are usually financed administered through an auxiliary parent company, which is created just carry out particular project then dissolved once work completed. That parent should held responsible any corrupt activities, he added.

"If are serious about addressing cancer corruption projects even partially financed with public international funding, I think reasonable insist upon entire project being subject procurement guidelines assure transparency award international contracts thus minimise risk corrupt payments connection with such contracts," he added.

Some witnesses urged multilateral banks ensure funds released non-specific purposes are not subject corruption, suggested audits how money eventually spent, admitting last step could prove difficult.

"Realistically, however, weakest link system," Levinson said. "Money fungible. extremely difficult, if not impossible trace . . . disbursed funds."

Winters, on other hand, suggested MDBs supervised an independent auditing body.

"The MDBs must much better job supervising auditing projects loans," he said. "But only effective way protect against corruption development funds establish an international auditing body independent MDBs private sector auditing firms – nearly which have deep conflicts interest."

Milverton said World Bank already has multiple layers oversight mechanisms, including audits, an inspection panel reviews complaints against Bank projects, institution's governing board, among others.

Carole Brookins, U.S. executive director World Bank, told hearing combating corruption building good governance have been major priorities Washington-based institution since 1996.

"The World Bank continues leader among international development institutions broad range country-based initiatives strengthen governance, build effective local institutions increase transparency," she said.

In last fiscal year, MDBs financed projects worth more than 35 billion dollars areas public administration, transportation, health education, among others.

The United States contributes more than one billion dollars year banks, with large majority money going World Bank's International Development Association, which lends very poorest countries subsidised rates.

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Originally posted by KSO
troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp
By Cahal Milmo
25 May 2004
UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp

Sex and death in the heart of Africa

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.

The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers......

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_re...&host=3&dir=69

PROOF OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BY UNITED NATIONS

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The UN is a Failed Organization
by Rachel Neuwirth
May 23, '04 / 3 Sivan 5764


The United Nations recently passed another blatantly anti-Israel resolution in support of extremist Arab Palestinian claims. There is no longer any point in entering into any serious dialogue with this organization.

In countless ways, over many years, the UN has proven to be a discredited organization, with lawless elements, which can no longer claim to have any moral standing. Very few of its 191 members can be counted upon to put principle ahead of crass expediency.

The hopeful vision that accompanied its founding in 1945 has long since evaporated. It was the United Nations that recognized Israel in 1947. Therefore, the UN has a duty to protect her from forcible extinction and to live up to and enforce the UN Charter. If the UN fails to protect any of her members, including Israel, then all that remains is a stench along the East River.

Mass murder has taken place over the years in a number of places, with no timely response from the UN. There has also been a UN failure to hold responsible human rights violators, and to oppose rogue states seeking the acquisition of weapons of mass murder. The self-interests of dictatorships, police states, anti-Western, anti-democratic and Arab/Islamic-driven theocratic hell-holes continue day in and day out to paralyze any possibility that the UN could ever encourage true justice. Here are just a few examples of major crimes that were ignored by the UN:

* Genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge, estimated at two million people.

* North Korea starved to death about two million of its own people.

* Saddam Hussein gassed Kurds and slaughtered the Marsh Arabs, while devastating their fragile ecosystem.

* Failure to oppose the spread of WMD in Pakistan, North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya, etc.

* Moslem genocide of about two million black southern Sudanese Christians over an 18-year period. Currently, one million people in Sudan have been driven from their homes, with the threat of murdering another 400,000 by the end of 2004.

* Slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda.

* Constant terror attacks on Israel, plus the usual calls from Arab and Muslim countries for the destruction of Israel.

* Failure to implement its own resolution for Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon following Israel's exit over four years ago.

The membership list of the UN's Human Rights Commission roster says it all. Included are Libya, Syria and Sudan - rogue states that support terror and major violations of human rights. This list is more appropriate for a lineup before a vice squad than for human rights guardians. The foxes are guarding the UN hen house.

In addition, it was recently revealed how Saddam Hussein figuratively 'bought' the UN under the UN's 1995 Oil for Food Program. He was allowed to illegally divert 10% of all transactions to himself and apparently to officials of various collaborating governments, including France, Germany and Russia. Also dipping his fingers into that "oily tithe" was none other than Kofi Annan's own son, one of those on the "Oil for Food" monitoring agency.

Entirely legally, the UN itself received a "commission" on all "Oil for Food" transactions. This became a major revenue source for the UN, giving it a substantial vested interest in continuation of Saddam's regime, under lucrative (for the UN) sanctions.

In return for billions in bribes and legal revenues, the UN and some members of the Security Council opposed any US military action against Saddam Hussein.

After all, why would they not want to drag on the search for a peaceful solution with more years of useless inspections. The Iraqi oil flowed out of the ground and the revenue from that oil flowed into secret bank accounts. Hungry Iraqi children became dead Iraqi children, and America became the ever-convenient "fall guy."

The record is clear. Too clear. It is time to stop the pretense that the UN is anything other than a hopelessly corrupt, ever mischievous, ever-conniving, ever anti-democratic, failed organization. It is time to stop looking to it for any honest brokering and to establish an alternative mechanism for dealing with the world's ills, and this time, let it be "by invitation only."

The UN must be radically overhauled in a way that requires member states to be at least on the road to democracy and all voting rights to be restricted to established, representative democracies. If not, it is time to put the old slogan into effect: get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.

http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=3710

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Presumed guilty
Oliver North

August 8, 2003


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Sentence first, verdict afterwards!" the Queen decrees in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," a miscarriage of justice to which poor Alice attempts to object. "Hold your tongue!" the queen retorts, before adding, "Off with her head!"


That may be amusing in a children's book. It is far less so when it describes the judicial philosophy of the United Nation's misbegotten International Criminal Court (ICC).

Created by the so-called Statute of Rome in 1998, the ICC was ratified by fewer than one-third of the world's nations, representing only 17 percent of the world's population. In the closing moments of his ill-fated regime, Bill Clinton made the United States a signatory. But in May 2002, President George W. Bush formally withdrew U.S. recognition from the court and dispatched Undersecretary of State John Bolton to inform United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan of the decision. Bolton describes that act as "the happiest moment of my government service." He ought to be happy.

The noble-sounding ICC presumes to punish four offenses: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression, although it has yet to define what that is. But since the court opened its doors for business in March this year, just as coalition forces were closing in on Baghdad, all the anxieties about the ICC being used for politically motivated prosecutions and as a global emergency room for international ambulance chasers have proven to be right. Contrary to Anglo-American judicial tradition, the ICC recognizes no statute of limitations on its jurisdiction. And in typical U.N. overreach and pretension, the court claims jurisdiction over countries that are not even signatories.

The ICC is not yet six months old, and it is already being used as a forum for interfering in, and impeding, the legitimate actions of sovereign states. The Athens Bar Association has filed a 47-page criminal complaint with the court against British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, alleging Britain's military actions against Iraq constitute "crimes against humanity and war crimes." It is the latest of more than 500 complaints filed with the court thus far.

Athens may be the birthplace of democracy, but these days it's a hotbed of anti-Western sentiment that deems Prime Minister Tony Blair to be a greater world menace than Saddam Hussein (the Mother of All Dictators); Muammar Ghadaffi (the U.N.-appointed Human Rights Czar); Yassir Arafat (the Nobel Committee's choice for Terrorist of the Year in 1994) or Kim Jung Il (the real "Human Scum"). Even Lewis Carroll couldn't conceive of such abject absurdity.

The Greek lawyers say they wanted to name U.S. officials in their complaint but reconsidered because the United States has not ratified the treaty. But that hasn't stopped others from filing dozens of complaints with the court against U.S. officials -- both military and civilian.

In Brussels, twice liberated by U.S. arms and home to both NATO and the European Union, America-haters got around the ICC ratification issue by claiming that Belgium's 1993 law against war crimes had "universal jurisdiction." When charges were brought against President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Blair, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Attorney General John Ashcroft and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on June 18, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded the Belgian law "absurd" and threatened to boycott NATO meetings. The Belgian government relented and offered diplomatic immunity for world leaders and government officials in the country.

The flood of anti-American legal activity inspired by the ICC is complicating an already difficult diplomatic environment as the United States tries to respond to challenges in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Liberia -- and fight a global war on terrorism. At a recent press conference, Rumsfeld observed: "It seems not to have any endpoint. It seems not to have any focus. A politicized or a loose-cannon prosecutor in a court like that can impose enormous difficulties and disadvantages on people, individuals, governments."

In order to protect U.S. military commanders from the ICC, the Bush administration has been forced to negotiate bilateral accords with 53 countries (and counting) in which U.S. forces are stationed or deployed, in order to guarantee their immunity from the very things about which Rumsfeld warned. The Bush administration has suspended over $70 million in aid to 35 countries for refusing to grant ICC immunity to U.S. citizens. And, as a pre-condition of U.S. participation in the current Liberian peacekeeping mission, the United States required that the United Nations "immunize" American military personnel from prosecution by the ICC.

All of these measures to protect American citizens have been met with extraordinary hostility at the United Nations, where criticism of the United States is unabated. Instead of America-bashing, Kofi and his cronies need to wake up to reality. For example, U.N. Resolution 1455, requires all United Nations member nations to report by August 1 on what actions they're taking to identify Al Qaeda and Taliban members and to freeze associated financial assets. Yet, two-thirds of the members -- including Iran, North Korea and Libya -- failed to do so.

No wonder Saddam Hussein flagrantly flouted over a dozen Security Council resolutions. He knew that the United Nations was more interested in reigning in the United States than it was in pulling the plug on his reign of terror.

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UN is guilty of sins of omission
by Judi Mcleod

April 5, 2004

It has to be the Lip Service Epic of all time: The one minute of silence the world will observe at 12 noon, April 7, the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide of Rwanda.

The International Day of Reflection on the Genocide of Rwanda originated with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a March 26 one-day memorial conference, in New York.

The conference began with Annan "accepting blame" for the slaughter of 800,000 civilians.

"The international community is guilty of sins of omission," Annan told the crowd gathered in the Big Apple for the summit.

No kidding, Kofi!

Head of the UN peacekeeping department at the time of the Rwanda massacres which saw children hacked to death by machete, Annan said he did what he could.

Like refusing to send more troops as requested by retired Canadian General Romeo Dallaire telephoning from the actual death arena? Or like keeping mum about how the Black Box flight recorder from a shot down 1994 aircraft was discovered in a locked file cabinet in the UN peacekeeping department?

In a speech that could have been delivered by Neville Chamberlain, Annan said: "I believed at the time that I was doing my best. But I realized after (emphasis ours) the genocide that there was more that I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."

Mouthing platitudes never makes up for lost lives.

It was 10 years ago that the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a mysterious plane crash. "Before the wreckage even stopped smoking, the killing began," said CTV.ca in a Breaking News item. "Spurred on by hateful radio broadcasts. 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in just 100 days."

Close to three million others were left homeless.

Annan’s Lenten New York mea culpa came in yet another UN conference that has the same hollow ring as the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. In Johannesburg UN delegates dined on caviar, steak and lobster within mere miles of starving African children.

The New York memorial conference on Rwanda attracted the likes of UN sycophant Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, who told the assembly that the world has yet to learn many of the important lessons of Rwanda.

"Or, to put it more starkly, we have learned what we need to do but I suggest, colleagues, 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 ever happening again."

For readers beyond the borders of Canada, that’s "starkly", Liberal Bill Graham style.

Even as Annan was receiving the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize 2001 for the Rwanda exercise, Gen. Romeo Dallaire was becoming suicidal after having watched, first-hand hundreds of thousands of Rwandans being slaughtered. Today, he says he cannot forget a massacre infused "in the pores of my skin."

The world-respected Canadian general, who led the peacekeeping mission into Rwanda in 1994, turned up at UN headquarters last week to give his take on the April 7 memorial.

"The principal objective is one, to not let the Rwanda genocide die, to let it disappear from the sights of the developed world in particular, because we tend to have a very short memory," Dallaire told CTV’s Canada AM.

He said the second goal is to take "a hard look at the prospects of such a terrible event happening again."

Dallaire, who had in Rwanda arrived three months before the massacre, reported directly to Kofi Annan, who was then in charge of the UN Peacekeeping department. On site, Dallaire could see that a genocide was coming. He pleaded with the United Nations to send more soldiers and allow troops to shoot not just in self-defence.

But the Calvary never arrived.

On April 21, the Security Council refused to help and instead cut the 2,000-strong force to just 270 troops. Dallaire has said that a force of 5,000 could have stopped the blood bath.

Of himself, Kofi Annan once said, "I’m not one of those people who believe you have to pound the table to be tough."

According to the Independent "When the first cruise missiles slammed into their targets in Baghdad, (Annan) retired to his expansive 38-floor office at UN headquarters, sat at his mahogany desk and slowly smoked a cigar."

Annan has declared April 7, 2004 the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide of Rwanda. There will be one minute of silence observed by the world at 12 noon that day.

Make that one minute of silence for 100 Rwanda days of hell, declared by the Lip-Service King of time immortal.

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 25 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard and the former Brampton Daily Times.

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UN guilty of 'sins of omission' yet again

By Anne Penketh Diplomatic Editor

23 April 2004
You would think that the United Nations would
be galvanised by a report from its own team
accusing a government of committing
atrocities that may amount to crimes against
humanity.
"This is a matter of concern to all of us," said
the Pakistani ambassador, Shaukat Umer,
yesterday in Geneva, where the UN High
Commission for Human Rights is holding its
annual session. But Mr Umer was not
referring to the allegations in the report, he
was fulminating about the leaking to the press
of the UN team's report on "ethnic cleansing"
in western Sudan.
Thus these bloody events may end up joining
the list of human rights atrocities that the UN
has been alerted to, but failed to act on. In
Rwanda in 1994 as the genocide broke out,
appeals for reinforcements from the
commander of the peacekeepers in Kigali
went unheeded. The UN secretary general,
Kofi Annan, admitted last month "the
international community is guilty of sins of
omission". The UN had to admit similar sins
of omission after the massacre of 8,000
Bosnian Muslims in the "UN-protected"
enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.
Part of the problem lies in the UN system,
which only allows its investigators to
investigate alleged atrocities with the consent
of the country involved. In the case of Sudan,
the Khartoum government first barred the UN
team from travelling to Darfur, which led to its
members interviewing refugees in Chad. The
government has now agreed to admit the UN
team - but not in time for it to report back to the
commission this week, delaying any action
until next year.
A UN team dispatched to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo to investigate human
rights abuses by the then government of
Laurent Kabila met a similar fate in 1998.
Despite being barred from entering the
country, the rapporteur concluded the
atrocities constituted crimes against
humanity. With an estimated three million
dead during the civil war, only now is the
International Criminal Court deciding whether
to follow up accusations of genocide.

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Here's more, this one is about UN involvement in the Balkan sex-slave trade:

The Economics of Immorality

May 30, 2004


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by Samuel L. Crapps, II

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When people’s actions are based on self-interest, people respond to incentives, that is, to costs and benefits. When the costs of an activity are raised or the benefits reduced, people do less of the activity. Economists have found that they can use this simple idea of action based on costs and benefits to construct a model (or theory) that explains how many markets work. This model, the model of supply and demand, is perhaps the most basic of the models economists use to explain the world around us. - Professor Robert Schenk, Saint Joseph’s College-Indiana

The global media criticism of the atrocities committed at the Abu Ghraib prison by a small percentage of American soldiers continues unabated. Scarcely a day goes by before “new images” are found and prominently published in major newspapers, or broadcast by major television networks. President Bush stated quite clearly that these actions “(do) not represent the America I know” and reasonable citizens agree with that statement. Yet, if the world chooses to judge America through the actions of a few rogue troops in Iraq, it should give equal prominence in its judgment to another human tragedy caused by uniformed men in another part of the world.

On May 6, 2004 Amnesty International released a report titled “Protecting The Human Rights of Women and Girls Trafficked For Forced Prostitution in Kosovo” and concluded that the presence international civilian workers, including members from the United Nations Mission (UNMIK), and military peacekeepers in Kosovo has a direct correlation to the increase of the illegal smuggling and subsequent sexual slavery of women in that embittered country. "Women and girls as young as 11 are being sold into sexual slavery in Kosovo and international peacekeepers are not only failing to stop it, they are actively fueling this despicable trade by themselves paying for sex from trafficked women," said Kate Allen, Amnesty International's director in Britain.

The economic model of supply and demand is quite effective when utilized as a behavioral tool in both the case of Abu Ghraib and in Kosovo. When it is used against the soldiers who have chosen to misuse their authority against Iraqi detainees, the incentives were clearly a sense of empowerment over a former enemy, pleasure from multiple acts of humiliation, and a degree of gratification from a false belief that there would be no accountability for those ill made decisions.

The cost that eventually translated into the payment for these behaviors is motivated by a code of moral decency and personal accountability that is one of the founding principles that define the best of America in both its civilian and military hierarchies. This to date has been shown in the suspension of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the former commander of the sixteen detention facilities in Iraq along with six other officers under her command who are under administrative investigation, and the pending court martial of six members of the 800th Military Police Brigade who directly abused the detainees. A critical point that the global media seems loathe to mention is that the efforts taken here to rectify the abuses at Abu Ghraib from the highest levels of the American government is exclusively for the past indiscretions of its rogue soldiers or reservists.

This is a far cry from the case in Kosovo where the behavioral model of supply and demand is unfortunately used to illustrate an ongoing and expanding market for one of the oldest professions in its most insidious form when children are actively involved. We should not be surprised by these behaviors when we consider that part of the membership of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) includes Germany where legislation was passed to give labor and social security rights to prostitutes, and the Netherlands where prostitution is legal in specifically designated regions.

When we focus specifically on Germany alone we find a country, according to Deutsche Welle (“What German Prostitutes Want”) that has “some 400,000 prostitutes and an annual 1.2 million men who use their services.” Even more disturbing is the related article, (“Stolen Youth: Child Prostitution Plagues German-Czech Border”) that describes the growing German pedophilia trade along its border with the Czech Republic where according to criminal psychologist Dr. Adolf Gallwitz, “we have men who have a fixation on children and also exploit them. They come from the social mainstream and are totally inconspicuous…but we also have men who turn this into a real family event and bring their wives along.”

The distinction between an America where the cost of inappropriate behavior in its military ranks is translated into the very real actions of court martial, incarceration, internal investigations, loss and or reduction of rank, public disclosure of the soldier or reservist involved with the related embarrassment to themselves and their families, and a Germany where prostitution is recognized as a social service no different than programs for the disabled, housing, or meals could not be more pronounced. This desperate plight of girls and young women who are falsely lured to Kosovo and then are subsequently broken through beatings, rapes, and starvation will not end until the demand for this insidious market is abated through a much higher degree of personal accountability in conjunction with the willingness of military leaders, political leaders, and the international media in Germany and beyond to publicly deal with those who choose to compromise human dignity in this manner.


Samuel L. Crapps, II

[Batman]

Originally posted by David_in_NYC
Here's more, this one is about UN involvement in the Balkan sex-slave trade:

The Economics of Immorality

May 30, 2004
by Samuel L. Crapps, II
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On May 6, 2004 Amnesty International released a report titled “Protecting The Human Rights of Women and Girls Trafficked For Forced Prostitution in Kosovo” and concluded that the presence international civilian workers, including members from the United Nations Mission (UNMIK), and military peacekeepers in Kosovo has a direct correlation to the increase of the illegal smuggling and subsequent sexual slavery of women in that embittered country. "Women and girls as young as 11 are being sold into sexual slavery in Kosovo and international peacekeepers are not only failing to stop it, they are actively fueling this despicable trade by themselves paying for sex from trafficked women," said Kate Allen, Amnesty International's director in Britain.............
....... This desperate plight of girls and young women who are falsely lured to Kosovo and then are subsequently broken through beatings, rapes, and starvation will not end until the demand for this insidious market is abated through a much higher degree of personal accountability in conjunction with the willingness of military leaders, political leaders, and the international media in Germany and beyond to publicly deal with those who choose to compromise human dignity in this manner.

I wonder if the uproar over the Arabs of Iraq being mistreated and abused versus the silence over women and girls who are abused in the Westernized location have to do with gender.

**Is it more ok to abuse women and girls more than it is to abuse men?

**Is it the fact that the men are Moslem and the women are of Western cultures????

In any case this article demonstrate that the United Nations Personnel feels that it has nothing to worry about in abusing civilians of victimized nations and refugee populations. It shows once again as in the Sudan that the United Nations is guilty of misusing its funds (which pay for training/salaries of these 'peacekeepers') and aiding in the promotion of abuse of the weakest class, women and children of war torn areas.

[Oh Jerusalem]

We're on a hot streak here!

SEX & DRUGS AT U.N.

By JAMES BONE

June 1, 2004 -- Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions - despite an attempt by the world body to block their book.

"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.

The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve as peacekeepers; and that incompetent U.N. security has cost lives.

Their first-person account of a decade in U.N. service also includes candid details of drug use - particularly a marijuana cocktail called "The Space Shuttle" - and casual sex.

"Almost a million civilians [whom] our peacekeepers were supposed to protect died in two genocides," said Dr. Andrew Thomson, one of the co-authors. "We didn't set out to write a scandalous book about the U.N., but this is a matter of historical record. Did the U.N. really think that none of us would come home angry and write about it?"

The book takes its title from an episode in Somalia in which Heidi Postlewait, an American secretary, seeks consolation with a local interpreter after a sniper attack.

"I can feel this pounding inside me and I can't wait. It has to be right now, not in 10 minutes, not five. Now," she writes. "An emergency. Emergency sex."

At one point, the former New York social worker has sex with a soldier at their Mogadishu base.

"After, we lay back naked, sweat drying, smoking cigarettes. Nice," she writes. "Then I spotted an observation tower not 50 feet away, where two soldiers with night-vision goggles were peeping down at us . . . I think they set me up."

Particularly galling to the fieldworkers is the murder in Mogadishu of a young American colleague, shot dead as he rode in a U.N. convoy.

Kenneth Cain, an American human-rights official, complains bitterly that the board of inquiry ignored failings in U.N. security.

"The board is stacked with U.N. officials who oversee security," he writes. "I don't trust these f- - -s for a second to truly investigate and hold one of their own accountable."

Bulgaria has denied that it sent freed prisoners as peacekeepers to Cambodia, but some of the other allegations in the book have been substantiated.

For instance, an inquiry into the bombing of the U.N. office in Baghdad last year found the whole U.N. security system to be "dysfunctional."

The U.N. hierarchy tried to block the book using a rule requiring that U.N. staff get approval before writing about their work. Permission was denied.

[Batman]

Originally posted by Oh Jerusalem
We're on a hot streak here!

SEX & DRUGS AT U.N.

By JAMES BONE

June 1, 2004 -- Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions - despite an attempt by the world body to block their book.

"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia.

The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve as peacekeepers; and that incompetent U.N. security has cost lives.

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The U.N. hierarchy tried to block the book using a rule requiring that U.N. staff get approval before writing about their work. Permission was denied.

This is a great start but only the very tiny tip of this monstrous iceberg called the United Mafia Nations. (which is what the UN deteriorated into)

I hope journalists and other UN witnesses worth their salt will tackle this and survive to see it to the end.

[David_in_NYC]

Originally posted by Batman
I wonder if the uproar over the Arabs of Iraq being mistreated and abused versus the silence over women and girls who are abused in the Westernized location have to do with gender.

Nope. The exclusive criterion for reportage of human rights disasters is an affirmative answer to the question, "Does this hurt George Bush?"