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French President Frees Child
Traffickers Arrested In Chad
keith harmon snow
Op
Ed News
Thursday November 15, 2007
French NGO Charity Used “Save Darfur” Infrastructure
to Kidnap Children
The French “humanitarian” charity NGO Zoe’s
Ark (L’Arche de Zoé) involved in Chad and Darfur
is under investigation by the United Nations, France and Chad
for trafficking in black children in the widely under-reported
“L'Arche de Zoé affair.”
Having discovered and criticized the affair, the Chadian President
Idriss Déby is under attack for alleging “pedophilia”
and “organ trafficking” and for arresting seventeen
Europeans intercepted at an airport in Chad attempting to depart
to France with 103 “Darfur orphans” aged six to ten.
Some of the children were bandaged to suggest injuries that did
not exist.
Organ trafficking is the trade in kidneys and other organs—a
rampant global trade—that is driven by elite high-paying
customers in industrialized nations who can afford to pay tens
of thousands of dollars for a life-saving organ. Children and
sometimes adults in poor countries are often trafficked for organ
"donations", though most are unwilling donors who do
not survive the "donation."
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The Zoe’s Ark project began fundraising April 28, 2007
to “evacuate 10,000 orphans facing certain death”
to France and the United States. Some 300 European’s paid
2000 Euros ($3450) each as “donations” toward logistics
costs to receive an orphan. French news reports have said the
group raised and spent 550,000 Euros on the operation.
After the airplane was intercepted before its departure to France
the UN High Commission for Refugees determined the children “were
living with their families in communities”—they were
neither from Darfur nor were they orphans—and their health
was not a serious concern.
The Zoe's Ark NGO was reportedly provided logistical support
by the French military, and they had made numerous trips to villages
on the Darfur border offering enticements and taking children.
Their access to war-torn regions of the Chad/Darfur border was
secured through participation in the international relief consortium
and its security apparatus.
Outraged Chadians on the border with Sudan had already been questioning
the motives of scores of foreign aid groups that work with Darfur
refugees. The few Western press articles that have covered this
story have been very brief, and several complained that a “mob”
of Chadian mothers were protesting, the unstated suggestion being
that they were unruly misfits whose outrage and concern about
affluent whites with security details child trafficking their
children were unfounded.
International NGOs like Human Rights Watch were quick to jump
all over President Idriss Deby, complaining that Chad routinely
uses child soldiers in it's military ranks. The international
press overwhelmed the issue of white Europeans trafficking in
black children by flooding the market with stories about the hypocrisy
of President Idriss Deby.
“These people treat us like animals,” President Deby
said of the members of the association L'Arche de Zoé (Zoé's
Ark). President Deby’s lapse in etiquette in speaking the
unspeakable truth caused the attention to be shifted to Chad and
the failure’s of its president.
The United Nations IRIN Relief Network news service echoed the
widely published criticisms of President Deby. “The statements
by President Déby and other Chadian officials about L'Arche
de Zoé's treatment of children are hypocritical,”
IRIN reported, “according to many aid workers including
Chad researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW), David Buchbinder.”
IRIN quoted the Human Rights Watch expert to say: “It's
hard to take them seriously when they talk about children's welfare,
when they're definitely not protecting children the way they should.”
The suggestion of hypocrisy would almost never surface in relation
to the nonsensical comments and outright lies that have been uttered
on National television by international white leaders like George
Bush, Tony Blair or Hillary Clinton. The Human Rights Watch “expert”
exercised the badge of privilege secured by his power status as
a white human rights expert in Africa and this microcosmic action
mirrors the inequitable power dynamic that Human Rights Watch
lords over “Third World” economies crippled by U.S./European
military, economic, political and ideological might.
International complaints about "child soldiers" are
universally leveled against so-called "Third World"
countries by affluent "First World" governments, human
rights organizations and think tanks. Meanwhile, first world citizens
-- including the human rights agencies who complain -- benefit
in countless ways from the projection of U.S. military power into
the places where child soldiers are found in the ranks of military
forces. U.S. and European military forces have the luxury of using
consenting 'adults" aged eighteen and over, and these forces
are well-fed, provided college educations and the "adventure
of a lifetime" in exchange for terms of duty. However, often
child soldiers join the ranks of militaries in strife torn areas
because it is the least dangerous place to be and it offers children
both a sense of agency and a sense of real power. Meanwhile, U.S.
covert forces and Western proxy armies align against less powerful
"rebel" forces or national armies, many of which are
involved in self-defense for themselves and their families, and
trying to protect their own land or country.
The United Nations and other relief organizations initially denied
all knowledge of the Zoe’s Ark NGO but the NGO was registered
as an international charity with the U.N. Mission in Sudan.
In perfect synchronicity with the "Save Darfur" chorus,
the Zoe’s Ark website today (www.archedezoe.fr/accueil.htm)
lists 800,000 children “in mortal danger today who must
be saved now!”
Responding to the intense international pressure, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Chad and personally secured the release
of seven of the seventeen who were arrested. They all flew back
to France together on November 11, 2007.
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