Horror In The Congo Continues...
Sexual atrocities in Congo’s South Kivu province are “of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape,” a U.N. human-rights expert said this week. “Women are brutally gang raped, often in front of their families and communities,” Yakin Erturk said. “In numerous cases, male relatives are forced at gunpoint to rape their own daughters, mothers, or sisters.” Some of the victims said they had been forced to eat the flesh of their murdered relatives. Erturk said that because the army, police, and militias in the war-torn province were all guilty of such crimes, only international intervention could stop the abuse. A war in Congo involving seven other African countries ended in 2003, but foreign militias still roam the country. In 2005, the U.N. estimated that 45,000 women had been raped that year alone.
And we thought we had it bad here. This puts some things into perspective. But we cannot be still while out Constitution is vanishing before our very eyes in America. We have not yet become so uncivilized that these things happening in the Congo are happening here...but who is to predict our future...when even our law makers...become law breakers and condone this kind of behavior. We ourselves may only be a stroke of a pen away from such deeds by our own police or military. I'd like to think that wouldn't happen...yet it is happening elsewhere on the same planet. Instead of the billions and more spent to eradicate the people of Islam...we and other nations should pool our resources and help these other nations...if possible...because anything is possible if you want it to be. I'd rather see my tax dollars go for aiding people and stopping the rape and slaughter of others...because that is a worthy cause. I don't want to have my tax dollars needlessly used to kill the brown people whose culture is centuries older than our own. It is a travesty of justice and more.
And we thought we had it bad here. This puts some things into perspective. But we cannot be still while out Constitution is vanishing before our very eyes in America. We have not yet become so uncivilized that these things happening in the Congo are happening here...but who is to predict our future...when even our law makers...become law breakers and condone this kind of behavior. We ourselves may only be a stroke of a pen away from such deeds by our own police or military. I'd like to think that wouldn't happen...yet it is happening elsewhere on the same planet. Instead of the billions and more spent to eradicate the people of Islam...we and other nations should pool our resources and help these other nations...if possible...because anything is possible if you want it to be. I'd rather see my tax dollars go for aiding people and stopping the rape and slaughter of others...because that is a worthy cause. I don't want to have my tax dollars needlessly used to kill the brown people whose culture is centuries older than our own. It is a travesty of justice and more.Labels: brutality, Congo, Constitution, human-rights, Islam, rape
