Where is the UN? Where is Obama? Where is Hillary?

The US stood by and watched as Hutu military forces nearly exterminated an entire 'ethnic' group, the Tutsi, in 1994.  We knew, the evidence is clear today, that the Clinton administration knew and did nothing.  In truth, it did do something - it pretended the attempted genocide was not happening.  Years later, Bill would enlist his acting skills when he visited Rwanda and cried, saying he would have done something had he known.  Liar.

One person who watched all this and wrote a book, Samantha Power, pointed out these issues in A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.   Samantha Power would go on to be an advisor to then candidate Obama and she would make a nasty comment about Hillary - no doubt influenced in a small part by what she learned of the Clinton refusal to involve itself in one of the greatest tragedies of the last 50 years.  She quickly quit / was let go, by the campaign and disappeared for all of ... I can't count miliseconds - Obama won and Power went to the White House to work.  In fact, it was Power and Rice who had Obama's ear on foreign issues - not Hillary.  She was window dressing for the Clintonistas.  Hillary was living proof that you keep your friends close and your enemies even closer - no one said he listened to Hillary.

One would think given Power and her background, this admionistration would be particularly in tune with anything remotely bordering on genocide, lest Power have to write another book.

The answer - no.  This administration has no direction.  No moral compass.  It is acting to satisfy Obama's social reconstruction program, nothing more.  They have failed, and worse, they have known better and still failed (unlike the Clinton's who were driven by power and identity - Obama was presented as a man who was driven by ideals and with the advice of great people like Power, he would act to stop evil acts like ... well, like what happened on July 30th from happening again - and he didn't, and worse ... nothing.).

Now the government in Rwanda will take action and groups loosely affiliated with the government will strike back and many Hutu innocents will be murdered, and the process gains steam, and hate.



Rwandan Rebels Raped at Least 150 Women in Congo, Humanitarian Officials Say

By JOSH KRON

August 22, 2010
New York Times



GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A mob of Rwandan rebels gang-raped at least 150 women last month during a weekend raid on a community of villages in eastern Congo, United Nations and other humanitarian officials said Sunday.

The United Nations blamed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or F.D.L.R., for the attack. The F.D.L.R. is an ethnic Hutu rebel group that has been terrorizing the hills of eastern Congo for years, preying on villages in a quest for the natural resources beneath them.

The raided villages are near the mining center of Walikale, known to be a rebel stronghold, and are “very insecure,” said Stefania Trassari, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Rape is something we get quite often.”

But she and other United Nations and humanitarian officials said that this attack was unusual because of the large number of victims and the fact that they were raped by more than one attacker simultaneously.

On the evening of July 30, armed men entered the village of Ruvungi, in North Kivu Province.

“They told the population that they were just there for food and rest and that they shouldn’t worry,” said Will F. Cragin, the International Medical Corps’ program coordinator for North Kivu, who visited the village a week after their arrival.

“Then after dark another group came,” said Mr. Cragin, referring to between 200 and 400 armed men who witnesses described as spending days and nights looting Ruvungi and nearby villages.

“They began to systematically rape the population,” he said, adding, “Most women were raped by two to six men at a time.”

The attackers often took the victims into the bush or into their homes, raping them “in front of their children and their families,” Mr. Cragin said. “If a car passed, they would hide.”

The rebels left on Aug. 3, he said, the same day the chief of the area traveled through the villages and reported horrific cases of sexual violence. “We thought at first he was exaggerating,” Mr. Cragin said, “but then we saw the scale of the attacks.”

Miel Hendrickson, a regional director for the International Medical Corps, which has been documenting the rape cases, said, “We had heard first 24 rapes, then 56, then 78, then 96, then 156.”

“The numbers keep rising,” she said. The United Nations maintains a military base approximately 20 miles from the villages, but United Nations officials said they did not know if the peacekeepers there were aware of the attack as it occurred. A United Nations military spokesman, Madnoje Mounoubai, said information was still being gathered.

The F.D.L.R., which began as a gathering of fugitives of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, has grown into a resilient and savage killing machine and an economic engine in the region.

The United Nations, Congo and Rwanda began a military offensive against the group in early 2009, but since then, humanitarian organizations say, cases of rape have risen drastically.

“It’s awful,” Ms. Trassari said. “The numbers are quite worrying.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited eastern Congo in 2009 to raise awareness about widespread rape in the region, calling it “evil in its basest form,” and the United States pledged $17 million to the Congolese government to fight sexual violence.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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