Cable: UN peacekeepers traded food for sex

[kangofu]

Cable: UN peacekeepers traded food for sex
Source - AP NewsABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food, according to a United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks

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[maianarisa]

And my faith in humanity has gone down.

Also, Lester Pearson is probably rolling in his grave right about now.

[hinoema]

I echo the sentiment, but I'm excising the 'humanity' part from my repertoire. This part of humanity is no longer accepting tacit responsibility to what is, by all evidence, an almost entirely male practice of using any means possible to subjugate vulnerable members of a society for sexual pleasure.

My faith in masculinity has gone down.

[mswyrr]

My faith in masculinity has gone down.

It's helped me to think of it in terms of masculinities. The dominate mode of masculinity says find a vulnerable person (preferably female), and exploit! Exploit! Exploit! Prove your power!

But there are other masculinities, thank fuck. I just wish like hell they weren't so comparatively unpopular.

[astridmyrna]

This is disgusting.

[homasse]

I hate everything, and most of all, I hate that there are people who would take advantage of people needing FOOD to get their rocks off.

[seasight]

I just wish I was more surprised at this. :(

[abee]

GOD. FUCKING. DAMMIT.