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Facing ‘peacekeeper babies,’ UN now offers DNA testing
Associated Press ^ | Jun 13, 2015 11:04 AM EDT | Cara Anna

Posted on 06/13/2015 8:54:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The U.N. peacekeepers arrive; months later, some leave infants behind. Now the United Nations has quietly started to offer DNA testing to help prove paternity claims and ensure support for the so-called “peacekeeper babies.”

It’s a delicate step, as countries that contribute U.N. troops might not welcome a practice that could prove not only fatherhood but wrongdoing. Of the dozen paternity claims received last year, four were associated with alleged sexual abuse of a minor.

The new effort comes a decade after a groundbreaking report on sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers suggested that the U.N. secretary-general be authorized to “require DNA and other tests to establish paternity” so peacekeepers would be pressured to support the children they “father and abandon.” …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: childabuse; childrapists; dnatest; humantrafficking; itsjustsex; peacekeepers; un; unsexscandals
Yeah, “so-called,” AssPress.
1 posted on 06/13/2015 8:54:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers

Oh, like Farscape.

2 posted on 06/13/2015 8:56:11 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

So if the DNA test comes up Sebacean, what does the UN do then?


3 posted on 06/13/2015 8:58:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Since the UN is headquartered in the NYC, does it mean that the babies (and the babymomas) have a right to come to the U.S.? This would be in the spirit of the Amerasians that resulted from the Vietnam War.


4 posted on 06/13/2015 8:59:41 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Olog-hai

Same thing they always do. Write a sternly worded letter.

L


5 posted on 06/13/2015 9:01:20 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Olog-hai

They have no choice, apprehend, and train them as the next generation of Peacekeepers.


6 posted on 06/13/2015 9:05:39 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
They have no choice, apprehend, and train them as the next generation of Peacekeepers.

The new Janissaries?

7 posted on 06/13/2015 9:10:23 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Lurker

The new effort comes a decade after a groundbreaking report on sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers suggested that the U.N. secretary-general be authorized to “require DNA and other tests to establish paternity”

And they did it in ONLY TEN YEARS too.


8 posted on 06/13/2015 9:13:08 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Olog-hai

To procreate and enslave ..

What happened to protect and serve?


9 posted on 06/13/2015 9:14:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Olog-hai

if this leads going after those that serve as peace keepers who have abused the local population where they serve then I am for this.


10 posted on 06/13/2015 9:18:57 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (BUT MAK)
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11 posted on 06/13/2015 9:19:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Under no circumstances should any American soldier ever serve under the UN. Our troops become subject to rules and procedures they are not trained for.


12 posted on 06/13/2015 9:28:18 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader

Keeping it zipped is always an option.


13 posted on 06/13/2015 11:23:50 AM PDT by Wolfie
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