Posted on 05/11/2011 1:58:03 PM PDT by george76
Has anybody seen Bill Clinton and John Edwards?
Not forests, jungles.
why is our African President not doing something to stop this?
While I don’t doubt that mass atrocities are being committed in the DRC, there is a lot of literature pointing to the fact that these figures are being plucked out of thin air.
One rape is a rape too many.
Frankly speaking, we don’t know how many women are being raped in the DRC and the numbers quoted are almost certainly exaggerated. I have seen aid agencies inflating figures about disasters in Africa. Examples abound: the controversy about the 2005 “famine” in Niger, the population of the Kibera slum in Nairobi (aid agencies estimated its population at 1 million, the “Map Kibera” project estimated its population at 235 - 270,000 and the Kenyan government census figures were 170,000).
There is also no consensus on exactly how many people died during the Civil War in the Congo - estimates range from 100,000 to 5 million.
This is not to disparage the work of NGOs in Africa but we need to understand that there is a professional aid industry and a little bit of exaggeration helps. A good number of Harvard MBAs and marketing professionals work in this industry and they know that nothing attracts donations like scary statistics and pictures of dead, dying or starving African babies.
They should distribute these for all the women to wear. LOL
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rapex-A-Female-Condom-Like-Anti-Rape-Device-49887.shtml
Device contains hundreds of needles that attach to male and can only be remove by a surgeon. LOL
Preferably with flies walking on their faces. The AIDS "epidemic" is a classic of fraudulent statistics, btw, drummed up to soak the idiot liberals of the West.
Oprah always wanted to return to her 'homeland'. Wonder why she doesn't?
Maybe Whoopi should join the PEACE CORPS in AFRICA.
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