Note: Senator Boxer is a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and I am eager to read her response to this letter on brutality against children in South Sudan. I will post it when it is received.
James Patterson, Diplomat
Life Member American Foreign Service Assoc.
San Francisco CA 94107-4232
June 26, 2015
Senator Barbara Boxer
United States Senate
Washington DC 20510
Dear Senator Boxer,
The San Francisco
Chronicle recently reported that 129 children were killed in fighting in
South Sudan. Little boys were brutally castrated and left to bleed and little
girls were gang raped and killed based on reports from United Nations
children's agency UNICEF. The agency reports other children were burned alive.
UNICEF reports South Sudan's military was responsible for
these atrocities. I know Secretary of State John F. Kerry has spent
considerable diplomatic effort in South Sudan since April 2014. Still, the
South Sudan military is engaged in a horror campaign against innocent children.
I urge to ask Secretary Kerry to do more to stop these
horrific crimes against humanity in South Sudan. Further, the U.S. government
should not be funding South Sudan's military to commit such barbarous
acts.
Please inform me what you can do to save the children of
South Sudan. I would appreciate the courtesy of an email response to
JEPDiplomat@gmail.com I am writing because I have had difficulty submitting
questions over your website. Thank you
for your assistance with this deeply troubling issue of violence against
children in South Sudan.
Yours truly,
James Patterson, Diplomat
John Diaz
San Francisco Chronicle
Foreign Policy
Washington DC
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