Sex tourism/paedophilia in Malindi

[Rasna Warah]

As I write this, my neighbour, an old, aging ugly Italian is having sex with his gardener. I know, because I saw him enter the gardener's quarters about an hour ago. He is still not out. I called him names from my window, even called the police who just laughed. I see it everyday. Young boys and girls being ****** by Italians old enough to be their grandfathers. I feel sick, I even vomit sometimes. Here I am in Malindi, the sin city, land of the paedophiles from Italy and god knows where. Land of immense poverty. Where foreigners can get sex for a song with a child, I am crying. I don't know what to do. What can I do? Is the govt in bed with the peadophiles? How else can you explain this modern day sexual slavery? 

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[Rasna Warah]

Thank you all for the comments. I am trying to establish contact with the gardener. The issue of course is not homosexuality, but sexual exploitation, which is rampant here. I will write about it. Meanhwhile am also in contact with the Catholic church here. I proposed putting signs up everywhere in English, Italian and Kiswahili saying HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN IS ILLEGAL. Will need sponsorship as they cost money and fees have to be paid to the county. Let me strategise more on this. 

The struggle continues... I also risk gaining the wrath of the Italian community here, but I don't care any more.

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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:58 AM, David Kuria <ati...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Rasna,

Your email raises quite a number of issues - some of them very serious:

1. Our internalization of Anti-African/black racism - Because the sexual relations were between a mzungu and a black "...the police just laughed." Age and gender do not seem to matter - "It is a Mzungu; it is to be expected" - By the way this is an extension of the same argument that says Africans are exempted from  certain human experiences - if any of us has ever held the view that same-sex sexuality is un-African or is a 'non-issue' for Africans - then we are no different from the laughing policemen/women. If we want to address the police attitude we would have to engage in a more systemic  review - we in the civil society are uniquely placed to show leadership, right from our own organizations and extending to our spheres of influence.
   
2. The second is issue is just as serious - failure to appreciate our own agency. The police have a role no doubt, but it may also be the case sitting down and talking with the children or taking any other intervention within (y)our reach could ameliorate their sense of vulnerability and helplessness. Kenyans like to outsource our agency to politicians, the executive, development partners  etc..... and this might in some way be related to the first issue and our colonial legacy.
3. The third issue is also just as serious. It is true as some say "security starts with me....yada yada" but where does that intersect and perhaps superimpose on the right to privacy. As someone whose privacy is constantly saveilled by neighbors, I cannot help but wonder - could this be the case with your Italian neighbor?
   
4. Lastly, I do not think it is necessary to call the Italian old and ugly - it distracts us from the primary message - the need to protect our children, but it could also be seen as a denigration of people who are old. For sure it is most likely that you did not want to associate old age with ugly or old age with ugly and Italian..... But I think it is important to be respectful of the dignity of all persons all the time.
5. You are very right this is this is SLAVERY - and just like Chief Kivoi (by the way was he a historical fact or a myth), of old, we are all its enablers one way or the other. How I hope we can one day look at each other, and affirm the human dignity in each other independent of our differences and diversity for when we do that, we shall not allow any form of affront to human dignity of any person.

Kind regards

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:41 AM, 'gathoni blessol' via kptj-comm...@fahamu.org <kptj-comm...@fahamu.org> wrote:

Peace Rasna,

This is to acknowledge your pain.

To embrace you,

To hear you

As you do not consent

...:::you do not consent

and you are repelling, fighting it

Malindi has been raping, and giving their children away for sexual exploitation to the peadophiles 

Some empires, entities within the Coast have been build on bodies: dead or alive of our children

The whole of the country is doing this, knowingly, unknowingly, silently

We lost our children the day we chose, who's child to put value on,

 

Gathoni JBlessol

On Friday, September 4, 2015 1:51 AM, Rasna Warah <rasna...@gmail.com> wrote:

As I write this, my neighbour, an old, aging ugly Italian is having sex with his gardener. I know, because I saw him enter the gardener's quarters about an hour ago. He is still not out. I called him names from my window, even called the police who just laughed. I see it everyday. Young boys and girls being ****** by Italians old enough to be their grandfathers. I feel sick, I even vomit sometimes. Here I am in Malindi, the sin city, land of the paedophiles from Italy and god knows where. Land of immense poverty. Where foreigners can get sex for a song with a child, I am crying. I don't know what to do. What can I do? Is the govt in bed with the peadophiles? How else can you explain this modern day sexual slavery? 

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