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Rwandan Rebels Raped at Least 150 Women in Congo, Humanitarian Officials Say - NYTimes.com

 

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A mob of Rwandan rebels gang-raped at least 150 women last month during a weekend raid on a community of villages in eastern Congo, United Nations and other humanitarian officials said Sunday.

The United Nations blamed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or F.D.L.R., for the attack. The F.D.L.R. is an ethnic Hutu rebel group that has been terrorizing the hills of eastern Congo for years, preying on villages in a quest for the natural resources beneath them.

The raided villages are near the mining center of Walikale, known to be a rebel stronghold, and are “very insecure,” said Stefania Trassari, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Rape is something we get quite often.”

But she and other United Nations and humanitarian officials said that this attack was unusual because of the large number of victims and the fact that they were raped by more than one attacker simultaneously.

On the evening of July 30, armed men entered the village of Ruvungi, in North Kivu Province.

“They told the population that they were just there for food and rest and that they shouldn’t worry,” said Will F. Cragin, the International Medical Corps’ program coordinator for North Kivu, who visited the village a week after their arrival.

 

U.S. Authorities Had To Shut Down Highway On Border Because Of Wetbacks...

1 dead in Mexico shootout on border with El Paso - Yahoo! News

 

By OLIVIA TORRES and ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Olivia Torres And Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writer – Sat Aug 21, 11:49 pm ET

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A gunbattle erupted between Mexican police and gunmen near the Rio Grande on Saturday, killing one person and prompting U.S. authorities to close a highway that runs along the border in El Paso, Texas.

There were no reports of bullets crossing into the U.S. side, El Paso police Detective Mike Baranyay said.

The gunmen attacked a municipal police patrol on a boulevard in Ciudad Juarez next to the border river, said Ramon Salinas, a spokesman for Mexico's federal police.

The fighting escalated when federal police rushed to help, he said. One gunman was killed and three municipal police officers were wounded.

El Paso police closed that city's border highway for about 30 minutes because of the shooting. City police said the U.S. Border Patrol asked for the shutdown.

Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the Border Patrol, said Paisano Street was closed "in the interest of public safety." He said that to his knowledge, it was the first time a street in El Paso has been shut down because of a shooting in Mexico.

Traffic was halted on a stretch running from downtown El Paso to the city's northwest, passing the University of Texas-El Paso, which overlooks the border.

The fighting occurred in the same area where a deadly shootout between gunmen and Mexican police sent seven bullets across the border and into the El Paso City Hall on June 29.

 

Our U.S. Gov't, Is Robbing Peter To Pay Paul!

USDA Looks Good to Washington's Hispanic Farmers - Page 1 - News - Seattle - Seattle Weekly

 

USDA Looks Good to Washington's Hispanic Farmers

Despite the Sherrod brouhaha, locals say the agency serves minorities well.

Comments (7) By Nina Shapiro Wednesday, Jul 28 2010

In addition to all the other ways that the Shirley Sherrod fiasco made the Obama administration look bad, it also dredged up the U.S. Department of Agriculture's checkered history on racial issues. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack himself referred to it as justification for Sherrod's initial banishment.

But while the department unquestionably has overlooked minority farmers in the past, giving rise to lawsuits and expensive settlements, it's actually made great strides—as farmers interviewed for the Weekly's recent cover story ("This Is My Country," July 14) made clear. These days, the USDA is considered the best source of funding for minority farmers, according to sources in Yakima Valley's Latino farming community.

In fact, the USDA's Farm Service Agency has a loan program specifically targeting "socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers."

"The FSA is the only [lender] that doesn't require a down payment," notes Malaquías Flores, head of a program at Washington State University that helps aspiring Latino farmers find funding. The FSA also offers low interest rates to minority farmers, he says.

Among the farmers who got off the ground thanks to the FSA: Sergio Marquez. The Mexican immigrant initially thought he didn't have the means to take advantage of his boss's offer to buy out the farm where Marquez was working as foreman. But now he runs a nearly 200-acre apple orchard that employs 50.

Luz Gutierrez, who runs Rural Community Development Resources, a Yakima nonprofit that helps Latino farmers and other entrepreneurs, also waxes enthusiastic about the FSA program. In late June, she persuaded USDA officials, including Under Secretary Edward Avalos, to come to Yakima to talk to Latino farmers about how to sell their produce to the department, which buys food that it then donates to food banks and the like.

So while in some quarters the USDA may have a reputation as "the last plantation," as Vilsack put it recently, in the Yakima Valley the USDA seems to be viewed through more cherry-colored lenses.