I felt I ought not to
write something when I am filled with anger, but to say I am absolutely and
totally disgusted would be an understatement.
The uncontrolled
actions by South Sudanese troops on 11 July 2016, within close proximity of the
increasingly useless and ever-incompetent United Nations Peacekeeping Force,
resulted in multiple rapes of foreign aid workers, along with a looting spree
and murder. One shudders to think how they treated the local population…
After winning a battle
in Juba, the South Sudanese troops celebrated their victory with an
uncontrolled four-hour rampage through a popular residential compound preferred
by foreigners. One aid worker was allegedly raped 15 times…looting and stealing
was the order of the day along with the murder of a journalist.
These despicable
actions are indicative of an undisciplined rabble posing as soldiers who have
no understanding or knowledge of what the mission of the armed forces is.
Not surprisingly, when
the UN peacekeeping force stationed approximately a kilometre away were begged
for help, they refused to even respond. Several embassies were also called on
for help, but they too did not even bother to react. Perhaps they did not want to infringe on the
‘human rights’ of the out-of-control soldiers?
I consider the lack of
action by both embassies and the UN to be a display of spineless cowardice of
the highest order, and nothing else. If the UN ‘peacekeepers’ are unable to
protect non-participants, then what on earth are they doing in Southern Sudan
let alone in Africa?
This is also merely
another example of the folly of forcing the balkanisation of a country and then
allowing it to implode. I am sure Pres
Bashir—he of now simply ‘Sudan’—is smiling at the incompetence and lack of
control that has now become the norm in another state that was set up for
failure.
I wish the day will come
when African governments realise that the UN’s so-called ‘Peacekeeping
Department’ has NO desire to keep peace. Their inability to perform their
function has been proven time and again across Africa. Instead, it is a United
Nations sanctioned ‘occupying force’ that continually turns a blind eye to
atrocities committed against the vulnerable.
Instead of acting as
their name implies and assisting the innocent, they cower behind their
barricades like spineless creatures and watch rape, looting and murder take
place.
Yet, despite a seriously
blighted track record littered with failure after failure, the UN still
continues to convince African governments that it is needed, and that it is a
‘successful’ organisation. To reinforce this bluff, they are probably going to
increase their force levels and of course, their budget. This will imply that
governments must ‘pay more for less’—a corrupt business model if ever there was
one.
One only has to look at
the gross failure ‘peacekeeping’ has become in DRC. If peace was measured by
the amount of peacekeepers and the size of the budget, DRC ought to be a very
stable and peaceful country. Sadly, that is not the case.
But if our governments
wish to turn a blind eye to this grossly disgraceful incompetent organisation
of incompetents, then they will have to suffer the consequences. Equally sad is
that the ‘world’ watches and says very little to nothing. But watching these
atrocities happen and saying nothing is silent complicity in this gross
violation of all that is supposedly humanity.
One also has to wonder
who trained these scumbags. It is obvious that they are lacking in any type of
training befitting a peacekeeping force as they have yet to yield a positive
result anywhere in Africa. Where does the UN find its particularly cowardly
dirtbags who make up the misnamed ‘peacekeeping’ forces?
In the not too distant
past, commanders who watched atrocities being committed and did nothing to stop
them or intervene were considered to be complicit in the atrocities. They were
charged with war crimes…
Not so the UN.
They will probably
claim they were unable to stop the rampage, call for a ‘special UN
investigation’, and insist on an increase in ‘peacekeepers’ along with a
massive increase in their budget. And when they finally run out of Southern
Sudan, they will hail it another great success story.
The so-called UN
‘peacekeepers’ are nothing other than an international disgrace and the
perpetrators of these atrocities should, by all rights, face trial for war
crimes.
