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| UNICEF Says Qaida Sexually Abused Yemen Children |
| 2014-06-18 |
| [An Nahar] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... children's agency accused Yemen's al-Qaeda affiliate of sexually exploiting children, pointing to incidents in the south in 2012 in a report published Tuesday. Al-Qaeda loyalists forced around 100 girls, some as young as 13, to marry its fighters in the southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... in 2012, UNICEF said. Taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from power, al-Qaeda seized large swathes of the south and east. Al-Qaeda gunnies seized swathes of Abyan province, east of the main southern city of Aden, in 2012. Both girls and boys had been "exposed to sexual violence in conflict situations in Yemen," the report said. "One of the forms of this violence is the forced marriage of up to 100 girls in the province of Abyan, attended by the heads and fighters of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... ," the U.N. agency said, using a front name adopted by al-Qaeda loyalists. "Seven cases of forced marriage involving girls under 13 have been verified," UNICEF said. In addition to that, "two girls were given as a gift" to members of the network by their brothers who had just joined the organization. In other cases, fighters paid dowries of up to $5,000 (3,700 euros) to marry the daughters of families from the region, some of which earn little more than $12 per month, UNICEF said. Most of the girls married off to al-Qaeda gunnies were abandoned by their husbands when the army retook the area in June 2012, the report said. Some of them had given birth, the report added. UNICEF said it was more difficult to document the sexual abuse of young boys recruited by the jihadists, but that it had recorded three cases in 2012. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The UN bitchn' about competition? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-18 19:25 |
| #3 Question: Is there ANYTHING Qaida doesn't violate or abuse? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-06-18 09:31 |
| #2 What is wrong? They just followed Muhammad's example. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-06-18 09:29 |
| #1 Well that's just the last straw, isn't it? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-18 08:17 |