Posted on 05/31/2008 8:45:24 AM PDT by indcons
An international watchdog must be set up urgently to investigate widespread cases of child sex abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers, a British charity said today.
Save the Children demanded action after its research found that starving and desperate youngsters as young as six were being coerced to sell sex for food, money, soap and even mobile phones in war zones and disaster areas.
Hundreds of young people from Ivory Coast, Southern Sudan and Haiti were involved in the research behind the conclusions.
One of them was 'Elizabeth', who was 12-years-old when she was snatched from the roadside early one morning last June and dragged into the bush by 10 UN peacekeepers who raped her one by one.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops have traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the BBC has learnt.
These militia groups were guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses during the Democratic Republic of Congo’s long civil war.
The trading went on in 2005. A UN investigative team sent to gather evidence was obstructed and threatened.
The team’s report was buried by the UN itself to ‘avoid political fallout.’”
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6681457.stm]
Typical, too. All these do-gooders without borders.
“Widespread child sex abuse by UN peace troops and aid staff, says charity”
Standard Operating Procedure for too many of The Blue Helmets
Calling Texas CPS.....
Just wait until Obama and/or Hillary with full cooperation from the Rat dominated congress decimates the U.S. military to levels worse than ‘The Carter Days’ and surrenders our national sovereignty to the whims of the ‘Nations United Against America’.
How prepared will you be when the Blue Helmet Brigade comes marching through your town to enforce the international law of the New World Order??
I fear for this Republic…
This has been widely known for years, but widely ignored or treated as an occasional aberration, because the MSM is in love with the UN.
Probably they share the same tastes in sex.
The scary part is that this has been reported in every nation to which the UN has sent troops/aid staff for years. It’s been at least as long as I have been paying attention to their activities. Yet not a single thing has been done about it and, after the initial outrage of each report, it just fades away.
Now that’s a pretty picture Ben. Warms the heart it does.
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