with a side of outrage

[garlicbreath]

from Girls and Warzones:14: ...Yasushi Akashi's statement when he, as head of the UN mission in Cambodia, was approached by various governmental and NGO representatives about the physical and sexual violation of women and girls by UN troops. He responded he was 'not a puritan'; that 18-year-old, hot blooded soldiers had a right to drink a few beers

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[yeloson]

Yeah. The intervention is basically like To Catch a Predator- it's something, but it's like a drop in the face of a structural problem, it doesn't solve anything, really.

(ex-rootlesscosmo here)

[anonymous]

Jesus, it's awful. Still I cling to the belief that telling the truth and recording it is valuable, though I'd be in a tough spot if I had to explain exactly how. Anyway I'm glad you're translating those testimonies.

[nama_nala]

on your last note about white knights, have you been reading any of kristof's columns in the nytimes? he keeps 'buying' the freedom of cambodian sex workers and then visiting them a year later to see if they're not back in the business; lessons in individual moral strength. "X made it, Y is back in the business' type of reports. Nowadays there is tons of anti-trafficking funding coming from the US govt flowing all over the world, but no one wants to talk about structural economic violence or debt or patriarchy, just lots of bad criminal men.

i feel your pain - i tried researching this for about three semesters at school and just went nuts in fits and starts, very very slowly translating sounds about right.