Posted on 11/26/2002 4:44:51 PM PST by knighthawk
Senior United Nations officials in Bosnia are warning of a dramatic increase in trafficked women passing through the Balkans and into western Europe.
The UN mission which has responsibility for dealing with the issue is due to hand over the role to the European Union at the end of the year.
But the head of the UN's anti-trafficking unit in Bosnia says the EU is not taking the issue seriously enough and lacks the political will to do so.
Celhia de Laverene says the EU plans to close down the only designated unit which deals directly with the problem.
She says this will lead to substantially more women becoming the prey of highly-organised criminal gangs.
Growing problem
Many of these women and young girls, some as young as 14-years-old, are taken from their homes in eastern Europe and brought to Bosnia before being forced into prostitution.
Many are then moved on by the gangs into western Europe.
The EU plans to have just 500 police officers in the country; 1,000 fewer than the current UN mission.
The UN believes this will not be enough to tackle such a growing problem.
However the EU police mission insists sufficient resources will be put aside.
High stakes
But at a meeting in London earlier this week, European ministers admitted that criminal gangs in the Balkans were currently better organised than the authorities trying to tackle them.
This will be the first time the EU has sent its own police force abroad.
The stakes are high, and they will be keen to show they can deal with a problem which not only affects Bosnia, but Europe as a whole.
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At whom are we pointing fingers here? You will not read these two handy descriptive terms anywhere in this post. They are: Albanian and Muslim. For that matter, these PC nincompoops cannot even bring themselves to sayBosnian.
I do not mean to let criminals of other cults and and nations escape unblamed. However, the plain fact of the matter is that Europe is now over-run with Albanian Muslim gangsters who are armed and ferocious in ways of which the Mafia never dreamed. In fact, Europe's international diligence in arresting and jailing the usual suspects has only succeeding in clearing the way for this wave of Muslim scum.
Time to start rounding up Albanians and putting them back on the reservation.
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