Clinton Offers $17M in U.S. Aid to Combat Sex Crimes in Congo

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Clinton Offers $17M in U.S. Aid to Combat Sex Crimes in Congo

AP / Roberto Schmidt, pool

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton jokes with patients and staff of the Heal Africa clinic in Goma, Congo, on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton witnessed the horrific living conditions that many Congolese women and children are enduring in their embattled country on Tuesday and was attentive to their stories about rape and sexual violence. She announced during her visit that the U.S. is extending $17 million in aid targeting sexual brutality.

AP via Google News:

Her offer came after a harrowing meeting with victims of violent gang rapes in a crowded refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma where 18,000 men, women and children have sought shelter from revenge attacks raging in the countryside.

“It is almost impossible to describe the level of suffering and despair,” a shaken Clinton said afterward.

Under the shadow of an active volcano, Clinton toured the Magunga Camp, a dust-choked warren of tents and tin-lined huts, listening as officials and residents of the camp described the horrors of gang rapes and a litany of deaths from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhea.

Picking her way through a path littered with volcanic rock, Clinton said she “wanted to see for myself what was happening here.”

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By boggs, August 12, 2009 at 2:44 pm Link to this comment

I don’t think its wise to spend 17M to comfort rape victims when what they really need is PEACE. There will never be peace in Africa until American oil companies have extracted the last drop of oil. Only then will the militia disappear and gradually the farmland will rebuild itself and the water streams, well they may take hundreds of years to get the oil out. Anyway, until we let those people have their country without restriction, it has to be complete sovereignty, no oil co’s calling the shots on where the natives can live and keeping them at bay with a mercenary army that is trained to rape and torture.
I hope we won’t find out they were trained in our very own SOA. In the meantime I can’t see throwing millions down a hopeless cause, which will continue, as long as need oil.

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