UK targets child abuse in Asia

[emad]

Rosie Cowan
Thursday February 10, 2005
The Guardian

The Foreign Office and UK police have begun a joint initiative to help south-east Asian countries combat the child sex trade, and to catch British paedophiles abroad.

Unicef estimates there are 1 million child prostitutes in south-east Asia, and up to 35% of all sex workers in the Mekong area, which includes Thailand and Cambodia, are under 17. Thousands of foreign paedophiles are enticed there by cheap long-haul flights, internet chatroom contacts and the belief they can escape prosecution.

The National Criminal Intelligence Service has sent a police officer and a consultant psychologist to help train 53 law enforcement officials from 11 countries, including Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, to interview paedophiles and spot internet grooming.

The FBI and Australian federal police are assisting with the 12-day course in Bangkok, and the 53 will train others in their home police forces.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1409694,00.html

[bobthedrummer]

1. This is a world-wide problem, usually a resort of war. More effort, like

the UK is showing, is needed to help these poor kids caught up in the sex industry catering to pedophiles:puke::argh::nuke:

[emad]

2. Interesting choice of words. To paraphrase, London's catering

industry harbors an estimated 30 convicted paedophiles who entered the UK during the cold war years as illegal East European and Latin American immigrants, reinvented themselves, acquired new identities and erased their disgusting past histories.

During John Major's tenure of No10 there were a number of police ops in London to weed these bastards out and several successful stings caught the vice rings that these supposedly clean restaurateurs operated.

Some trails led to UK politicians - notably Jeffry Archer and Jonathan Aitken. Others were put on hold. A notable example of this is the one that Aussie rock start Michael Hutchence was part of.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Somebody warn Neil Bush n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Why doesn't the UK target Blair's cabinet?

Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room

January 29, 2003

A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography:

"The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person. There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur."

The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister.

The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.

http://www.counterpunch.org/james01292003.html