Investigation ordered into sexual assaults by U.S. troops on U.S. troops

About time. (SFGate article)


But, you know. Our boys will be boys.

[Then Governor Jesse Ventura] a former Navy SEAL who spent time in Southeast Asia in the early 1970s, said he couldn't condone the Navy's Tailhook scandal but he understood it.

"These are people who live on the razor's edge and defy death and do things where people die. They're not going to consider grabbing a woman's breast or buttock a major situation," he said. "That's much ado about nothing."  article



CANBERRA, Feb. 7, 2004 -- Three visiting United States marines were arrested in Darwin, capital of Northern Territory, Saturday on charges of sexual assault of two women.

The servicemen had only been in Darwin for a day-and-a-half before their arrest in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to an Australian Broadcasting Corporation report, quoting a police spokesman.

They were accused of assaulting two sisters on Friday night at their apartment.

Local police and US Shore Patrol members found the two semi-conscious women, in their 20s, in separate bedrooms of a city apartment after being tipped off by a friend of the sisters.  article



March 11, 2003: Dozens of current and former female cadets at the United States Air Force Academy have come forward to report the academy's mistreatment of women who were raped or sexually assaulted by male cadets. Air Force leaders finally confirmed that these cases exist, but only after intense Congressional and media scrutiny.   article



March 8, 2003: The United States Air Force has identified about 12 cases of alleged rape or sexual assault at the Air Force Academy over the past decade that it intends to refer to Pentagon investigators, the Secretary of the Air Force has said.   article



November 03, 2001: In the 50th anniversary year of the ANZUS alliance, the girl's parents and supporters claim there is a pattern of abuse emerging in Australian ports, of underage girls being targeted for rape, often gang rape, by US servicemen.   article



June 29, 2001: Tempers flared in Okinawa amid accusations that a U.S. Air Force serviceman on Friday raped a Japanese woman in a parking lot as other Americans stood by.   article



September 16, 2000: A US army [serviceman from the 82nd Airborne Division] has already been jailed for life for raping and murdering 11-year-old Merita Shabiu [of] Kosovo.  article



July 10, 2000: I recently survived a two and half year stint in the US Navy, where I was also sexually assaulted. I definately know what it is like and the power that is abused. It is not just on the Officer level, it stems down into the enlisted ranks. I was raped by a military police officer. This is someone that I was suppose to respect and whom is suppose to uphold the law. What a bunch of B.S. But the problem did not go away after the rape. Once I reported it, my life became a living hell. Not only did this person continue to harass me, but so did my fellow sailors. The higher ups saw me as a serious problem, which I now see, as them being threatened by me. Of course another scandal would surely damage their reputation, after all, things are suppose to be better after the tailhook scandal. Once again, B.S!! Women are more afraid than ever to report assaults and harassment due to the consequences and reprimands that they will surely face after coming forward. The Navy's answer to a woman being raped is to Administratively Separate her by claiming that she has a Personality Disorder.   article



According to the September 20, 1994 Asahi Shimbun, even after the 1972 return of Okinawa to
Japanese jurisdiction, there has been an unending string of crimes by U.S. servicemen against local citizens. Homicides alone already account for 12 incidents, while there are over 500 other incidents including serious crimes such as arson, robbery, and rape.   article


1998: Computer records of Navy and Marine Corps cases since 1988 show bases in Japan with a total of 41,008 personnel, held 169 courts martial for sexual assaults, she says. This was 66 percent more than the second location, San Diego, California, which had 102 cases out of 93,792 personnel.

A similar pattern of abuse has been recorded by women's organisations in South Korea.

A Korean Congressional report estimated that more than 30,000 crimes were committed by U.S. military personnel against Korean civilians between 1967 and 1987 which included murder, brutal rapes and sexual abuse, according to Yu Jin Jeong, director of the Seoul-based National Campaign to Eradicate Crime by U.S. Troops in Korea.

...Prostitution near former or present U.S. military installation throughout Asia has had a very serious effect of women's health, including increases in HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, according to Santos.

Children fathered by U.S. military personnel are often abandoned and discriminated against by the local community, say the groups.   article



In 1988 US undercover investigators found children as young as 6, 11 and 13 year olds were being sold for sex to US sailors on the streets of Olongapo. This was covered up too until CNN brought it out in a special TV report.  article




March 7, 1996: NAHA, Okinawa (CNN) -- Three U.S. servicemen were convicted Thursday in the kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced to up to seven years in a Japanese prison.  article



....ad nauseum....

Don't ask me why they hate us. I can't figure it out.