Sex-slave whistle-blowers vindicated (DynCorp)

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/index.html

DynCorp, a private military powerhouse, fired two employees who complained that colleagues were involved in Bosnian forced-prostitution rings. The employees went to court -- and won.

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By Robert Capps



Aug. 6, 2002 | Two former employees of DynCorp, the government contracting powerhouse, have won legal victories after charging that the $2 billion-a-year firm fired them when they complained that co-workers were involved in a Bosnia sex-slave trade.


The court actions -- one in the United Kingdom, the other in Fort Worth, Texas -- suggest that the company did not move aggressively enough when reports of sexual misconduct among its employees began to emerge in 1999. The tribunal in the U.K. found that DynCorp employee Kathryn Bolkovac "acted reasonably," but that the company did not. snip

In late June, Salon published a two-part investigation into the participation of DynCorp employees in the Bosnian sex-slave trade, based in part on evidence uncovered in the Johnston case. At least 13 DynCorp employees have been sent home from Bosnia -- and at least seven of them fired -- for purchasing women or participating in other prostitution-related activities. But despite large amounts of evidence in some cases, none of the DynCorp employees sent home have faced criminal prosecution.


Because of a combination of international treaties, jurisdictional loopholes and bureaucratic confusion, employees of private military companies such as DynCorp can escape prosecution for crimes they commit overseas. Most common crimes committed outside the United States are beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts, and the burgeoning local law enforcement systems in war-torn regions such as Bosnia are often insufficient or unwilling to police U.S. contractors.

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[DUreader]

1. mercenaries are above the law

This puts a disgusting new twist on the term 'corporate whores'

[tom_paine]

14. Not just mercenaries, BUSHEVIK mercenaries...

Doubly above the law...

[Just Me]

2. This crap has got to end,...

,...these companies should NOT be "beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts" when it is the U.S. (funded with taxpayer dollars) that contracts the vast majority of their services. Drug rings, sex slave trading, baby-buying, arms swapping, murder/assassination...this pisses me off!!!

[lebkuchen]

12. Sexual slavery will increase if bases move to Romania, Bulgaria, Poland

DynCorp probably can't wait for that move to take place.

Incidentally, DoD employees aren't above the law if they break them in host countries (recall Okinawa rapes). I see no reason why DynCorp should be any exception.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Dyn Corp links

http://truthout.com/02.24C.DynCorp.Disgrace.htm

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ROB108A.html

Private Military Company/PMC link
http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=2

[htuttle]

9. Here's another link

http://www.dyncorp-sucks.com/index.htm

[Melsky]

4. There needs to be a change in the law

those people should be prosecuted.

That is really a sad story. I'm glad the people won their lawsuit though.

I just can't imagine buying and selling a human being. That is just sick.

[bobthedrummer]

5. It's organized crime.

eom.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. DynCorp is into the Iraq colonial gravy train

From CorpWatch.com
Dated April 9, 2003

Dyncorp Rent-a-Cops May Head to Post-Saddam Iraq
Investigative Report
By Pratap Chatterjee

The scenes of looting in Iraq are heart-rending: the Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah in southern Iraq was pillaged last week by 20 armed thieves who grabbed a haul of drugs and several ambulances just as a man died in the hospital lobby from gunshot wounds. He sustained his injuries while resisting another gang that was trying to steal his car.
Basra's Sheraton Hotel saw mobs of young men stealing tables, chairs, carpets and even a grand piano. British military officials, while proclaiming they had seized control of the city, acknowledged that the telephone system had shut down this week because scavengers had ripped out all the equipment.
Commenting on the unfolding chaos an unnamed Pentagon official told the New York Times that they were seeking something more than the United Nations peace-keeping troops: "We know we want something a little more corporate and more efficient with cleaner lines of authority and responsibility."
That plan appears to be almost ready. Half a world away from the bedlam in Iraq, just outside of Forth Worth, Texas, police recruiters are currently manning the phones for Dyncorp, a multi-billion dollar military Contractor. For Dyncorp the turmoil that is emerging in Iraq could mean a boom in business.

Read more.

Here's some more info about DynCorp's business in Bush's Iraq.

[regnaD kciN]

7. How shocking...!

At least 13 DynCorp employees have been sent home from Bosnia -- and at least seven of them fired -- for purchasing women or participating in other prostitution-related activities.

Disciplined for purchasing women...how anti-free-market can you get??? Why, if you allow Big Government to prevent a DynCorp employee from purchasing a woman, the next thing you know, they'll be arresting you in the checkout line for buying the wrong brand of soap. Enough with these assaults on our great capitalist system! When sex-slavery is outlawed, only outlaws will have sex slaves!

:crazy:

[CaptAhab]

8. War on sex slavery?

Hey, I thought that what's-his-name in the White House was all about fighting sex slavery. Surely now DynCorp will get the punishment they deserve, right? Right?

[NNN0LHI]

10. Ignore this. Think rape rooms in Iraq. Americans do not commit rape

There. I feel much better now.

Don

[Barrett808]

11. More good deeds from Pug Winokur, late of the Enron board

But no worries, none of the Enron board members will ever face charges. The officers will take the fall.

[LiberalFighter]

13. This is important BUT NOT LBN --> Aug 6 2002