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oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon Aug 15, 2016, 05:56 PM Aug 2016

South Sudan Troops Raped, Beat Foreigners as U.N. Force Ignored Calls for Help: AP

Source: NBC News (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya — The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.

"Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head," she remembers him saying.

She didn't really have a choice. By the end of the evening, she had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-sudan-troops-raped-beat-foreigners-u-n-force-ignored-n630876

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South Sudan Troops Raped, Beat Foreigners as U.N. Force Ignored Calls for Help: AP (Original Post) oberliner Aug 2016 OP

This happens without the AK saidsimplesimon Aug 2016 #1

But there was an armed UN peacekeeping force just minutes away oberliner Aug 2016 #3

The UN is a shadow saidsimplesimon Aug 2016 #4

K&R, shame uppityperson Aug 2016 #2

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)

1. This happens without the AK

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 06:06 PM

Aug 2016

all over the world. There is so much violence against women, I have limited resources and work for a better North and South America.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. But there was an armed UN peacekeeping force just minutes away

Reply to saidsimplesimon (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 06:35 PM

Aug 2016

And they refused to intervene and potentially help prevent these atrocities.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)

4. The UN is a shadow

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 06:40 PM

Aug 2016

of its' potential, imo. Tell me, for all the billions invested, what have they accomplished? I can't donate directly to causes for fear of a "terrorist" connection.

Forgive me for being cynical.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

2. K&R, shame

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 06:33 PM

Aug 2016

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