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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Michelle's On the Case

Michelle Malkin is all over the UN sex abuse scandal.

Excerpts from her column:
Fifty U.N. peacekeepers and U.N. civilian officers face an estimated 150 allegations of sexual exploitation and rape in the Congo alone....

Hundreds of babies, fathered by U.N. personnel, have been born to Congolese girls and women....

[T]here was an entire network of U.N. personnel who had sex with underage girls in Congo and the Central African Republic. Investigators are now digging into claims of U.N. infiltration by organized pedophiles....

The Times of London reports further that two Russian pilots who served in the U.N.'s peacekeeping contingent based in Mbandaka "paid young girls with jars of mayonnaise and jam to have sex with them....

Human rights groups say such monstrosities have been tolerated by U.N. brass for years. Joseph Loconte noted in the Weekly Standard last month that the Congo revelations come three years after another U.N. report found "widespread" evidence of sexual abuse of West African refugees. Girls and women in East Timor, Cambodia and Kosovo have reported sex crimes perpetrated by U.N. peacekeepers....

In 2001, American whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska policewoman who worked for U.N. security in Bosnia, uncovered scores of sex crime allegations and prostitution rings in the Balkans involving her fellow U.N. employees. Girls were forced to dance in bars for U.N. personnel and beaten or raped, Bolkovac reported....

This stuff has long been bubbling just below the level of public consciousness. What was needed was people like Michelle Malkin to bring them to the surface.

Think about the extent of corruption at the UN, then remember the recent spate of stories about major business corporations, and our Universities, and the journalistic community, and nearly every major institutional structure that organizes our lives, then ask yourself, "what the h**l is goin' on here?"

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