"If it doesn't involve panties on their head... what's their problem?"
Posted on 11/24/2004 10:14:23 AM PST by drpix
U.N. accused of rape, pedophilia, prostitution - Civilians, staff in Congo under internal investigation
The United Nations claims it is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape. The charges include accusations of pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary-general in the peacekeeping department.
Lute, an American, said there was photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations and most of the charges came to light since the spring. In May the United Nations reported some 30 cases of abuse among peacekeepers in the northeastern town of Bunia, where half of the more than 10,000 soldiers are stationed.
The U.N. internal oversight office is expected to release a report soon on the abuse in Bunia. In addition, the peacekeeping department is sending at least two other teams to Congo to deal with various aspects of the problem, Lute said.
But the United Nations is not known for its forthrightness and candor in such internal investigations. The agency has been criticized for ignoring evidence or wrongdoing in the past – including accusations of rape and murder by "peacekeepers." In fact, previous revelations of peacekeeping abuses have only been revealed by news organizations. Such was the case in Cambodia in the early 1990s and later in Somalia, Bosnia and Ethiopia.
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another proud chapter in UN history.
If the UN isn't being totally useless as it was in Uganda and is now in Sudan, then its operatives are out doing this. Kofi, kofi, kofi.
If the Associated Press (AP) hasn't printed then I'm not buying this story....
Get the UN out of the US....Eviction notice served today would be nice.
Gee, I wonder if they'll be 40+ days of front-page news coverage, ala Abu Ghraib...or if we'll ever even see the video evidence.
Beat me to it, you bastard! And we were supposed to let the UN handle it because they are so much more sophisticated and humane so something like Abu Ghraib wouldn't happen. Well they were right, it didn't happen. But instead apparently something far worse...
Of course, this will be the very last time we hear about either Lute, OR the UN abuse "video."
In the meantime, Disney, Paramount, and the DNC are all bidding for the video of Abu Girhaib.
I don't think we have enough rope here in the US to give proper justice to this bunch of crooks!
LOL!! GREAT PIC!
UN forces are basically mercenary forces. Mercenaries are not guided by patriotic values. Their discipline is not up to the standard of a national force.
Rape, pedofilia, prostitution, fraud, embezzelment, and Genocide. Hey have they missed anything in their tear through the lawbooks?
JH
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dollars to donuts you won't hear a liberal outcry about it.
"U.N. Accused of Rape, Pedophilia, Prostitution"
Sounds like Hollywood.
I'll bet you the UN drives an SUV also.
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