The Independent has lifted another corner of the filthy veil concealing the UN, the body that the world chooses to regard as the antidote to brutality and tyranny, and morally so much superior to the US:

'Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering. The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers. Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers. The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation.'

This is the body to which -- heaven help us! --a frighteningly demoralised America has entrusted Iraq. When are people going to wake up to the fact that the corrupt, incompetent, terror-promoting UN is the world's problem, not its solution, and that what we need is a United Democratic Nations instead ?

Posted by melanie at May 27, 2004