Love Story: So tell me, how not to love this 'bad ass black guy'

[NoelVermillion]

Yes, you are right on.

"...Abbie loves the man who sacrificed his scholarship in the United Kingdom to be with her."

What damn "scholarship" he is talking about? Look at his stupid face....those high school "scholarship" which is a savings bond by his parents saving....also call scholarship.

I know of a Singapora lady who said she got a "diploma" in nutrition from a USA corresponding school. When I look at the scan copy, I saw subjects like English 101, Health Food 201 etc. I told her that is just high school diploma i.e even lower than secondary 4 standard in Singapore for many of the subjects...like English 101 is just like secondary 2 std.

She got a rude awakening.

Singaporeans are so naive. Do not know the world. To them when they hear the world diploma they think it is like a diploma from the Singapore poly and the world "graduated" meant "graduated from a "university"....and now in this case "scholarship" is like President scholarship......bull shit!

No wonder old fart LKY can bully and cheat the majority of Singaporeans!

I see it as more of our SPGs being dumb and think that every chapalang university in a white country is better than our Singapore university. Same applies for diploma.

 

[Watchman]

White Anglo-Saxon: Redneck, Trailer Trash, White Trash, Honkey, Cracker
Italian: Dago, Wop, Gumba, Spaghetti Head, Greaseball
Puertorican, Latino: Spic, Greaser, Grease Monkey
Mexican: Wet Back, Beaner, Pollo
Black: Nigger, Jungle Bunny, Coon, Negro, Mooli, Darkie, Nappy Hair, Liver Lip, Spade
Arab: Camel Jockey, Sand Nigger, Rag Head, Dune Coon, Towel Head
Indian Native American: Tanto, Red Skin, Savage, Casino Indian
Indian Asian: Curry Head, Marsala, Hindu, Banji, 7/11 Indian
Jew: Kike, Jew Bird, Heime, Matzo ball, Heeb
Japanese: Jap
Chinese: Chink
Vietnamese: Charlie, Gook
Korean: Pan Face
German: Kraut
Polish: Polock

 

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In eastern Congo, more than 15,000 women were raped last year. Assaults included a four-day mass rape of more than 300 women by rebel groups.

Even by the horrific standards of this conflict-ridden country, the number is staggering. According to U.N. officials, more than 15,000 people were raped in eastern Congo last year.

Gallery: Congo's Resilient Rape Survivors

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Tantini Kahindu, 16, sits in her house in the village of Luvungi that was attacked on July 30 by Hutu rebels and local militias. Sept. 4, 2010. Photo: Marc Hoffer, AFP / Getty Images

To understand the scope and brutality of the sexual violence, consider this: Over a period of four days in August, a coalition of rebel groups systematically raped more than 300 hundred women in the remote area of Walikale—an incident that probably constitutes the largest mass rape in recent Congolese history.

“Almost all the victims were raped by the attackers in groups between two to six people,” a U.N. investigation found. “Before the sexual act, the attackers put their hands in the victims’ vaginas, purportedly looking for gold or money.”

Sadly, the attack was far from an isolated incident. Over the past years, the Congolese conflict, which for many years eluded much international attention due to its complexity and remoteness, has increasingly hit the headlines for its extreme viciousness, especially when it comes to sexual violence.

Last week, Roger Meece, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, told the U.N. that the security problem in the eastern part of the country is “enormous.” Although good data are hard to come by, a demographic survey published in August by U.S.-based researchers suggested that over a third of the women in the region may be survivors of sexual violence.

“Before the sexual act, the attackers put their hands in the victims’ vaginas, purportedly looking for gold or money.”

The numbers are mind-boggling and beg an explanation to the question: Why hasn’t the U.N., with almost 20,000 peacekeeping forces in the country, been able to stop the violence?

To answer that question, it’s important to avoid reducing the conflict to the spectacle of savage rebels and innocent victims. The violence is far from wanton and senseless but has taken place against the backdrop of a brutal civil war in the eastern Kivus region. In this context, civilians are seen as legitimate military targets.

This bloody conflict is fueled by a bitter competition between local and national elites over power and resources. A weak state and an abundance of mineral wealth compound the problem. Together, these factors have allowed over 20 different rebels groups to set up bases.

• Full coverage of Congo: Stories, Pictures, and MorePerhaps the most important group is the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Rwandan rebels numbering around 3,000 to 4,000. Last year, after over a decade of violent antagonism, the Rwandan and Congolese governments decided to patch up their differences and launch joint military operations against the FDLR. While they managed to demobilize or kill around half of the rebels, it came at the cost of displacing a million people and killing thousands.

It was in this context that the Walikale mass rape occurred. While the exact motive of the attack is not yet clear, it seems that the FDLR, together with rag-tag Congolese militias, carried out the rapes as revenge for an attack by the national army that had left several of their soldiers dead. According to the customary chiefs of the area, the FDLR wanted to humiliate the community for their “support” to the Congolese army, which had just moved one of their units out of the area.

Since the attack, the U.N. peacekeeping mission has come under fire for not having intervened. While the mission has certainly been guilty of inaction in the past, this time it appears that the peacekeepers were mostly guilty of not doing enough to find out what was going on.

The 80 Indian soldiers based nearby knew that the FDLR had entered the area and had begun pillaging, but reportedly had no idea of the scale of sexual violence. They told humanitarian workers to keep out of the area and conducted a brief patrol, but did little to investigate. The U.N.’s own report is revealing: The peacekeepers had no training in protecting civilians; they only had one interpreter and barely interacted with the locals. All of which adds up to severe negligence for sure. But not complicity in mass rape.

It is, moreover, unreasonable to think that the U.N. will ever be able to adequately intervene to protect civilians in the eastern Congo once fighting has begun. The area is as large as Florida with only a few hundred miles of passable roads. This year, the Indian government withdrew nine helicopters, which has further reduced the U.N.’s capacity to intervene in remote locations.

“Protecting civilians in imminent danger, which is our mandate, doesn’t make much military sense,” a U.N. official told me, requesting anonymity, as he was not authorized to speak to the press. “Once the fighting has started, it is usually too late and too difficult to stop it.”

• The Daily Beast’s complete coverage of CongoProtecting civilians has to entail deterring violence before it has broken out. The U.N. took welcome steps in this direction when it arrested one of the Congolese commanders who had helped the FDLR carry out the rapes. Last week, the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest of the FDLR political leader Callixte Mbarushimana in Paris for his role in supporting the military operations.

It remains to be seen if these arrests will have an impact on military behavior—some diplomats have questioned whether these few arrests will really have an impact if hundreds of other perpetrators go unpunished. And little progress has been made with one of the main abusers: the Congolese army, despite years of training by American, Belgian, Angolan and Chinese officers.

Real change will only come if justice is swift and predictable, and when commanders realize that they are responsible for the acts of their men. In other words, a state and justice system has to be built where there is little sign of one. That will take years.

Jason Stearns is the former head of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Congo and has been working on the conflict for ten years. His book on the war, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, will be published by Public Affairs in March 2011.

 

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[Khun Ying Pojaman]

His Chinese brother:

 

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[hotbot]

abbie ah,abbie...why u so like dat? you are my kind,bah...bah...
btw,what did you see in the blackie?:o

 

[metalslug]

Any more criticism...?

 

[Cestbon]

Wish them happy ending.
But most probably end up sad story after few year.
Hope she will come and write about her love story after 5 year or so.

 

[Papsmearer]

That shit skin is a snake that makes up dumb stories to try and lie to idiotic women.

Wah, why u criticize your own kind, Rasta nigger?

 

[cooleo]

Wish them happy ending.
But most probably end up sad story after few year.
Hope she will come and write about her love story after 5 year or so.

Assuming they allow drug mules to write e-mails from prisons. lol

 

[streetsmart73]

Wish them happy ending.
But most probably end up sad story after few year.
Hope she will come and write about her love story after 5 year or so.

hi there


1. just take a good look at the nigger!
2. she would probably end up in some jail in mexico being his mule for trafficking or what.
3. stupid sheep!

 

[wikiphile]

hi there


1. just take a good look at the nigger!
2. she would probably end up in some jail in mexico being his mule for trafficking or what.
3. stupid sheep!

Either that or sold as a sex slave to his homeland, wherever that is. If these kind of bak chye can fetch a high premium down there, why not?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Wah, why u criticize your own kind, Rasta nigger?

No lah i was scolding that yellow_people that's a nigger. An indian nigger.