Rapist British Soldiers Leave Legacy of Pain in Kenya

What makes me so unhappy about this report?  Everything.  No really, every little thing about it triggers me to death.

First of all, I wish this was news.  As the reporter notes, some of the kids in this story are adults now.  This has been an ongoing problem for decades.  People have been living their whole lives with this.  And the rapists who started it all whistled off back to their happy-go-fucky lives in England without concern.

Then there's the fact that this is almost exactly like what happened with my countrymen in Vietnam -- and other places.  It's directly, exactly the same results for the women and children, and the same zero consequences for the men.

Also the reporter started out by citing RT, Russia Today.  I'm pretty sure RT isn't covering the shit show that is the Wagner Group's interaction with the women of the Central African Republic.  I'm not even going to look for links about that because my mental health can't take it. 

This report is talking about the ordinary abuse and exploitation of women that happens all the time when large groups of men aren't tightly controlled.  That's just plain and simple.  It's obviously worse when they're soldiers in a different country where they're being trained to dehumanize the locals anyway.  But you can look at how the crime statistics boom anywhere in America when the oil industry moves in and they bring their work crews to any community.  The sexual assault statistics in particular skyrocket from the sudden influx of the usual suspects.

The only reason this doesn't happen to Saudi women is because of the extreme amount of social controls in place for everyone including the troops. But what Wagner has done to African women?  Is off the charts of disgusting behavior.  RT can place themselves on permanent mute.

Also it's just another slap in the face to the colonized people.  Just another reminder that the British weren't invited there to fuck everything up and kidnap everybody.

And lastly, for me personally, it's just another reminder that with rape, the perpetrator walks off to have a nice day.  And the rest of the world punishes the woman and whatever child she may have had, as if they were unfamiliar with the concept of what actually happened there.  It's not that they don't know.  It's that they don't want to think about it.  So they reflexively blame her.

Scapegoating isn't a conspiracy, it's an emotional reflex reaction.  Unfortunately it continues to happen all over the world because people suck.