Posted on 02/20/2005 9:35:18 PM PST by Coleus
“Bourguet’s case is the only one that has been prosecuted among 150 allegations against about 50 soldiers and UN civilian officials who have served in the Congo peacekeeping mission,” continued the Times. “At least seven cases of sexual exploitation and abuse have been documented against peacekeepers based in Bunia, a northeastern town.”
On February 11, the ABC News program 20/20 broadcast photographs extracted from the hard drive of Bourguet’s computer, which “reportedly contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. In one frame, a tear can be seen rolling down the cheek of a victim.”
“Peacekeepers” and civilian UN personnel would entice desperate Congolese girls with offers of food, shelter, and other necessities. One 12-year-old girl, identified only as “Helen,” told the December 18 New York Times about being lured into a “peacekeeper’s” tent when the foreign soldier offered her a cup of milk. “After she gulped it down,” the paper reported, “the foreign soldier pulled Helen … into his bed, she said. About an hour later, he gave her a dollar, put a finger to his lips and pushed her out of his tent....”
“In this same eastern outpost, another United Nations peacekeeper, unable to communicate with a 13-year-old Swahili-speaking girl who walked past him, held up a cookie and gestured for her to draw near,” continued the New York Times account. “As the girl, Solange, who recounted the incident with tears in her eyes … reached for the cookie, the soldier reached for her. She, too, said she was raped.”
Not surprisingly, given her fears of reprisal from both her family and other UN-connected predators, Solange declined to avail herself of medical or counseling services offered by a nearby UNICEF facility. The slogan of the UN Children’s Fund, incidentally, is: “Every child is our child” — a motto that takes on a grim undertone in light of the UN’s uncanny ability to foster child exploitation wherever it puts into practice its peculiar variety of benevolence.
Imagine all those unicef boxes at halloween :(
The U.N. is rotten from head to toe.
Other than that it's a fine organization.
Judging from what I hear from African friends, they are more trouble than they are worth :(
There is no longer any compelling reason to give the UN ANY money, under ANY circumstances for ANY purpose. They are the most corrupt, least efficient entity in the world - most likely to fraudulently misuse all monies made available to them.
No wonder Clinton wants a job at the UN. For the good of humanity, let's eliminate the UN.
I don't think Annan has clue one about how to head up an organization like the U.N. His little underlings are screwing up things in every nook and cranny of the planet, and he never knows...
Bye Kofi.
agreed!
Tall tree
Short rope
Scared horse.
I think it's further evidence he has the idea of how to run a criminal enterprise like the U.N. 100% down pat. Who's going to fire him? The U.S.? What are we doing about it? It's a bunch of newspaper fluff that will blow off.
Nothing will happen until the American people really care about it. And that's not happening--right now, it's "Oh, the U.N. sucks? What else is new? Guess we're screwed [shrug]"
Business as usual in D.C.
Yes, that occurred to me too. As for the public waking up, I agree. What bothers me is that we have a representative form of government, and the only time our leaders seem to take decisive action, is on matters that are suspect of going against the citizens. Does it really not occurr to our leaders that the U.N. is serious f'd up and beyond salvage?
No, as a matter of fact, they dig in deeper as with CAFTA, FTAA et al. That really sucks.
Corruption rules the world, with all-image organizations like the U.N. as big a part of this corruption as anyone or anything else. It would be nice if this story got legs, and could be used as just one more nail in their coffin.
WE MUST GET OUT OF THE UN AND GET THEM OUT OF NEW YORK!!!!
H.R. 1146 will WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations' madhouse/cesspool.
Go to: http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html . Then go lobby at http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm . Email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov . White House comment line is 202-456-1111.
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.
The whole mission of the UN is to take power, money and national sovereignty from the USA. Thus the United States must withdraw from and defund the UN and if we go, if we are lucky, the whole thing will implode.
The level of journalism sinks. Someone should tell this reporter that there is a specific difference between a 'pederast' and a 'pedophile.'
I won't explain it here, but you can consult a dictionary.
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