U.N. unqualified for relief effort

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 29, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

Is the United States turning over millions of dollars to the United Nations and its agencies to relieve the immense suffering of millions victimized by the 9.0 South Asia earthquake and resultant tsunami?

Forget the "oil-for-food" scandal in which U.N. officials and their designates received millions in payoffs.

Forget the lack of accountability this global agency has demonstrated over the years.

Forget the fact that the United Nations has never, ever in the history of the world done more good than harm wherever it has been deployed in humanitarian efforts.

Let's just for a moment look at what the United Nations is doing right now in the Congo.

U.N. officials there have turned a relief effort into one giant sex slavery ring.

The London Times reported before Christmas how a U.N. logistics expert from France working in a $700 million-a-year rebuilding effort in that country turned his bedroom into a studio for videotaping and photographing sex sessions with young girls.

When the police arrived, the man was allegedly about to rape a 12-year-old girl sent to him in a sting operation, the report said. Three home-made porn videos and more than 50 photographs were found.

And this was no isolated incident in the Congo where there is "rampant sexual exploitation of Congolese girls and women by the U.N.'s 11,000 peacekeepers and 1,000 civilians."

So far, investigations have already turned up 150 allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers and U.N. staff. They include allegations of two Russian pilots based in Mbandaka paying young girls with jars of mayonnaise and jam to have sex with them. They reportedly filmed the sessions and sent the tapes to Russia.

A Moroccan peacekeeping contingent based in Kisangani reportedly hid one of its soldiers in the barracks for a year when he was accused of rape.

And this horror has been continuing for years – so far with not one U.N. official or contractor punished.

More than two years ago, Maj.-Gen. Jean Pierre Ondekane, who later became minister of defense, told a top U.N. official that all the mission in the Congo would be remembered for "for running after little girls."

Most of the sexual abuse and exploitation, says the report, involves trading sex for money, food or jobs. However, some victims say they were raped, but later given food or money to make the incident appear to have been consensual – "rape disguised as prostitution."

Is this what we can expect when the United Nations goes to work in Thailand, in Sri Lanka, in Indonesia and other locations hard hit by perhaps the worst natural disaster since the Flood?

So why is the U.S. turning over U.S. taxpayer dollars to an incompetent, morally corrupt, unaccountable agency?

Giving these predatory monsters our money and a new relief mission is tantamount to giving them a new license to rape and pillage people who need love and compassion.

This is why the United Nations needs to be destroyed, dismantled, obliterated from the memory of the people of the Earth. As long as it exists, it will siphon off vast amounts of money, manpower and resources that might otherwise accomplish some good.

No matter what horrors the United Nations perpetrates on innocent people, there is no accountability, no punishment, no consequence. That's why it is inevitable that we will only create new victims of this global monstrosity by sending more relief money

Forget the UN ! As individuals we can support many good NGO's
that specialize in disaster relief .
Here is a list of some :

http://www.redcross.org/ (Red Cross United States)

http://www.icrc.org/eng (International Red Cross)

http://www.redcross.or.th/english/home/index.php4
(Thai Red Cross)

http://www.careusa.org/ (Care USA)

http://www.catholicrelief.org/
(CRS – very good one for India)

http://www.directrelief.org/sections/our_work/asia_earthquake.html
(Direct Relief International )

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/disaster_assistance/help/index.html
(USAID – United States State Dept )

http://www.americares.org/ (AmeriCares)
This is a very good one!

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/press_releases/AsianFloods

Additional Relief Agencies now going into operation
in the affected areas :

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
http://www.aah-usa.org
American Jewish World Service
45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018
800-889-7146
http://www.ajws.org
ADRA International
9-11 Fund
12501 Old Columbus Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-2372
http://www.adra.org
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-241-7000
http://www.afsc.org
Catholic Relief Services
PO Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
800-736-3467
http://www.catholicrelief.org
Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
PO Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
International Medical Corps
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 300
Santa Monica CA 90404
800-481-4462
http://www.imcworldwide.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
41-22-730-4222
http://www.ifrc.org/
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Middle East Crisis Response
PO Box 630225
Baltimore, MD 21263-0225
877-803-4622
http://www.iocc.org
Lutheran World Relief
PO Box 17061
Baltimore MD 21298-9832
800-597-5972
http://www.lwr.org
MAP International
2200 Glynco Parkway
PO Box 215000
Brunswick, GA 3121-5000
800-225-8550
http://www.map.org
Mercy Corps
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org
Northwest Medical Teams
PO Box 10
Portland, OR 97207-0010
503-624-1000
http://www.nwmedicalteams.org
Operation USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Ste. 200
Los Angles, CA 90069
800-678-7255
http://www.opusa.org
Relief International
11965 Venice Blvd. #405
Los Angeles, CA 90066
800-572-3332
http://www.ri.org
Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org
US Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-FOR-KIDS
http://www.unicefusa.or
World Concern
19303 Fremont Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98133
800-755-5022
http://www.worldconcern.org
World Relief
7 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
443-451-1900
http://www.wr.org
World Vision
PO Box 70288
Tacoma, Washington 98481-0288
888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org

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