A typical tactic, too, if you think about it.
Whenever the U.S. wants to promote a new enemy, the horror stories about how they treat women start showing up in the agenda-pushing papers.
Remember the Taliban? Saddam Hussein? Palestinians?
It's always the "they abuse their women" bit.
I always think a) it's coming from a Zionist-controlled, anti-Muslim, agenda-pushing, enemy-creating media, and b) we poison and abuse our women and girls her in the U.S., so WTF?
The feeling here is that ALL WOMEN should be respected and loved -- period!!!!
"In Zimbabwe, the cruelty goes on" by Los Angeles Times | July 8, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - She has to stay most of each day and night at the base, a sex slave of the thuggish youth militias unleashed by the government. The Los Angeles Times interviewed her during one of the several short daily periods she is allowed to leave the base.
"I pray God most of the time. I pray, 'You are the one who knows my future. Help me. Stop this happening to me.' "
A base commander who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity said that Mugabe himself said the bases will continue to operate. Some members of the ruling party say new operations are being planned. But the commander said there was no government money to feed the youth militias at the bases and that supporting them had become a major problem.
That could be a problem for ZANU-PF: For most of the young shock troops, their main motivation is the hope of a quick dollar to feed their families, with food scarce and opportunities to get ahead almost nonexistent.
The camps were set up after ZANU-PF's defeat in the March 29 parliamentary and presidential elections to provide bases from which to target opposition activists.
Now keep in mind, readers, the agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM don't seem to concerned about Somalia or Ethiopia.
It's o.k. to approve weapons shipments to a war-criminal government!!!
Look, I don't think any one should suffer in this world, but I OBJECT to the DEMONIZING and AGENDA-PUSHING -- especially when some war criminals are OUR FRIEND (like Mugabe was once).
I guess it is the hypocrisy and duplicity that bug me the most, because if this account is true -- and I have no reason to doubt that it is -- then Mugabe is a monster!
She has to call the young men her "comrades." She cooks food for the comrades and serves them. She sweeps their floor and cleans up after them.
And whenever any of the comrades wants sex, she is raped.
Asiatu, 21, is a prisoner of the comrades at a command base of the ruling ZANU-PF, one of 900 set up by the party to terrorize Zimbabweans into voting Robert Mugabe back into power in the one-man presidential runoff election late last month.
The election is over, but the terror isn't.
"I'm still at the base. I'm being raped by four or five men daily," she whispers, bursting into tears. "Any time they want, night or day.
"To me a comrade is a murderer, someone who's cruel."
She has been at the base for about 10 weeks, ever since she was abducted in the middle of the night because her mother is a supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
When asked why she doesn't escape during her free time, she gives a chilling explanation: "They promised me if I run away, my mother will be killed."
A slight, pretty figure, about 5 feet tall, Asiatu wears a flowing black dress with splashes of red. Her braids are tied back by an extravagant puff of red tulle. Her eyes are sad and fearful. And she rarely smiles.
She says she looked forward to the June 27 runoff and the result, assuming she would be freed.
But with the election over and no sign to the end of her imprisonment, she has lost hope. She is fearful she might be pregnant, and terrified she has AIDS. She is the sole breadwinner in her family, but has not been able to sell vegetables because she spends all her time at the base.
At most of the bases, young women have been forced to serve ZANU-PF youth militias, and men forced to attend the camps daily.Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from the June 27 poll because of the violence. But Mugabe, who finished second to Tsvangirai in the March poll, pushed ahead with the runoff despite international condemnation. He was declared the winner soon afterward and hastily inaugurated.
The opposition MDC reports an upsurge in pregnancies among victims of rape. Written testimonies by victims show many cases of women raped because they or their close relatives were MDC activists. The party does not have a figure on the number of rapes reported in the continuing political violence.
Asiatu's ordeal began one afternoon when 35 ZANU-PF militia members came to her house because her mother is an MDC member.
"I was eating and they kicked my food," she says. "They started beating me, saying I was an MDC member. They said I should be killed." Three days later they came at night and forced her to go to the base. "I was just crying. I thought they wanted to kill me."
To protect her, the location of the base in Zimbabwe is not identified. She does not go by the name Asiatu in her community.
There are political meetings at the base, with songs and slogans. "I just go to save my life. But I will never be ZANU-PF," she said.
Before the election, she says, she saw hundreds beaten at the base, between 10 and 50 people a day. She says she saw two MDC activists stoned to death. The gang of militia members pelted the two with bricks and rocks, taking about three hours to kill the men.
Elizabeth, 30, an MDC activist and vegetable seller, says she was raped at the same base before the election."I'm appalled, I'm saddened, I'm disgusted.
How can people treat other people this way?
I guess I'm a loser for a reason, and why I'll be one of the first ones killed.
AlFor another example of selective MSM propaganda regarding Zimbabwe, see: The NWO's Feminist Agents
Let's get back to the agenda pushing, shall we?
"Mugabe aide urges world to accept vote" by Nelson Banya, Reuters | July 8, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe urged the world yesterday to accept President Robert Mugabe's reelection and said any move to impose United Nations sanctions on his government would hurt everyone involved.
This week, the UN Security Council is due to discuss a United States and British-based proposal for financial and travel restrictions on Mugabe and his top officials as well as an arms embargo on Zimbabwe. World leaders at the Group of Eight nations summit in Japan also raised the prospect of more sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Sanctions? THAT'S IT?
I guess those raped women and girls don't matter all that much, huh?
Hell, I'm ready to invade the place over it!!!!!!!
David Miliband, Britain's foreign secretary, called yesterday for the world to unite on the sanctions proposal.
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(Blog author just shaking his head)
And check this out; you want information about the Sudan?You gotta go to the Living/Arts section for a feel-goody!!!
Yes, readers, I am worn down by the Zionist press and their prop spew!
"DIGGING DEEP: Curry students band to build a well in a classmate's Sudan village" by Linda Matchan, Globe Staff | July 8, 2008
MILTON - They're liberal arts students, for the most part, taking courses like "Major British Writers" or "Introduction to Psychology."
And though it's far from their academic interests, they're also taking a crash course in Well Building 101.
Drilling rigs, hand pumps, water tables - they are major preoccupations these days at Curry College, where students have rallied around a fellow student who fled Sudan as a boy, and are building a well in his native village.
Peter Nhiany is one of the so-called "Lost Boys of Sudan," the name given to thousands of South Sudanese children who trekked for months in the 1980s in the wake of civil war and spent years in refugee camps. In 2001, 4,000 of these children were resettled in the United States, and there are now about 200 in Greater Boston.
With the support of international aid workers as well as families in Lincoln, Nhiany attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and is now a junior majoring in communications at Curry. About a year ago, a teacher told him about a club he might want to join. Called ONE Curry, its mission is no less ambitious than helping eliminate global poverty. The club was small - eight members on a good week - but stalwart. It was founded by John Abdulla, now a senior, who'd heard Bono deliver an impassioned speech at a U2 concert about the ONE campaign to end poverty, and threw himself into the cause.
Alleviating extreme poverty is a tall order for students whose base of operations is a lush, sheltered campus in a suburb. Nhiany gave them a primer on South Sudan, as he remembered it. A surviving uncle tells him he was only 3 when his village of Bor was invaded by northern Sudanese militia, who burned homes, massacred villagers, and destroyed their animals. He fled, joining 20,000 children who walked 1,000 miles across Sudan, eating leaves and sucking on wet mud to stay alive. Many didn't make it, but those who did reached the border of Ethiopia where Nhiany spent two years in a refugee camp. They were driven back to Sudan by the Ethiopian Army, wandering this time to Kenya, where they received asylum for nine years in a United Nations refugee camp.
Nhiany, who is not sure of his age ("I think I'm, like, 23"), said he desperately wanted to help his village, now resettled by Sudanese returning from Kenya. The students tossed out ideas. Launch a food drive? Start a school? Collect books?
"Peter very humbly looked at us and said, 'How can my people have an education if they can't even thrive? They need water,' " recalls Laura Cluff, vice president of ONE Curry. "We all just sort of dropped our jaws, and said, 'You're right.' "
In an interview, Nhiany spoke passionately about the subject of wells and water. He recently learned that his parents and several brothers and sisters were still alive in a Ugandan refugee camp. He visited them last October, and was horrified by their deprivation. His mother and sisters have tuberculosis, and their only source of drinking water was a ditch.
"If you could see it, you will cry," said Nhiany, a tall, robust young man with high cheekbones and a mild manner who is working two maintenance jobs to support his family. "It is like, brown, totally brown." The situation is even worse in his village in Sudan, he said, where the Nile River nearby is contaminated.
"I said, why don't we join hands and build a well?" Nhiany recalled. They all agreed. But how?
Luckily, others in the Boston area had figured it out. The students consulted Ron Moulton, a Bedford business and technology consultant on the board of Village Help for South Sudan, a nonprofit group building a school and well in Wunlang, another village in South Sudan. The students met with Moulton several times, and learned the process was complicated but not impossible - they'd need a reliable contractor, a drilling rig, and a lot of money.
So far they've collected about $3,800 through school fund-raisers, but they have a long way to go: The Wunlang well cost $12,000, "and the costs just keep rising," says Nhiany. They've met with members of the Milton Rotary Club; the organization has a foundation that could provide a matching grant, though they have to raise $10,000 to qualify.
In the meantime, the project has paid off in other ways, as students have embraced Nhiany as a close friend.
"Our relationship is much stronger than club members sharing a common cause," says Cluff. They call Nhiany "Petey" and hang out with him; Abdulla went with him to a Lost Boys reunion.
"He is so honest," says Cluff. "The way he speaks about his culture, about how loves his people and Sudan so much, without getting dramatic about it - he inspires me so much. He teaches us every single day."
Says Nhiany: "I was a lonely kid, but this is a good place for me to be. I never thought people would be interested in me."