by Judi McLeod
February 16, 2005
In a politically correct world, calling a spade a spade is no longer de rigueur. Weak words long ago replaced strong ones in global lexicon.
The favourite word for odious behaviour among the PC set is "inappropriate".
Every once in awhile comes a brave writer to put things back into perspective. Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin was right on the money in writing about "The UN's rape of the innocents."
"Kofi annan must have the world's thickest set of industrial-quality earplugs," Malkin wrote. "How else can he block out the cries of Congolese girls raped by United Nations "peacekeepers" sent to protect the innocents from harm?"
annan's spin doctors notwithstanding, these are not just a gaggle of peacekeepers raping their way to peace in far-flung outposts.
"Fifty U.N. peacekeepers and UN civilian officers face an estimated 150 allegations of sexual exploitation and rape in the Congo alone," says Malkin.
Not the Congo alone because another UN report cites "widespread" evidence of sexual abuse of West african refugees. Girls and women in East Timor, Cambodia and Kosovo have reported sex crimes perpetrated by UN peacekeepers.
In what has to be the ultimate classic textbook example of UN hypocrisy and doublespeak is the fate of aimee Tsesi, whose 15-year-old deaf mute daughter has a son fathered by a member of UN personnel.
Tsesi, has been turned away at the gates of the UN camp to which she had turned for assistance.
"`The UN is not able to give me food or money for my grandson,'" she told aBC News. ‘"But if the UN hadn't brought this soldier here, my daughter would not have become pregnant. and I would not be going through this suffering.'"
UN personnel have fathered hundreds of babies, but we don't read about their progeny in the deluge of media releases, dispensed daily from UN Manhattan headquarters.
The UN-decreed Year of the Child may have been more self-serving than global, and it seems that deadbeat dads are not always found in america's courtrooms.
The Times of London reports that two Russian pilots serving in the UN's peacekeeping contingent based in Mbandaka "paid young girls with jars of mayonnaise and jam to have sex with them. They filmed the sessions and sent the tapes back to Russia."
But in yet another UN-finds-out-after-horse-is-out-of--barn episode, the men were tipped off and left the area long before UN investigators ever arrived on scene.
The official response of annan to what Malkin describes as "this mother of all humanitarian abuse scandals"?
an updated "zero tolerance" policy and a few arrests in Morocco, where his son, Kojo once pitched oil deals with Hani Yamani.
at least annan hasn't yet called on a personal friend to "investigate" the humanitarian abuse scandal.
Noting that it's "time to rethink the nearly half-billion dollars in aid we send to peacekeeping operations", Malkin pointedly asks: "How much more aid must we squander on holier-than-thou wolves in do-gooders' clothing?"
The kind of peace promised by the UN, probably swiped off a Hallmark Christmas card circa mid-1940s, was always steeped more in Public Relations than it was in any kind of meaningful action.
Let the record show that mealy-mouthed annan and his dithering diplomats are up for the job when it comes to backbiting the United States of america, but absolute wimps when it comes to doing the right thing for world innocents.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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