Posted on 02/12/2005 9:47:09 AM PST by saquin
UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo.
ABC News' "20/20" program showed pictures taken from the computer of a French U.N. transport worker. The hard drive 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.
The news report coincided with the U.N.'s new "zero- contact" rule banning any interaction between U.N. soldiers and locals in Congo.
The staffer, Didier Bourguet, 41, is facing charges of sexual abuse and rape in France. His lawyer, Claude de Boosere- Lepidi, said in court last week that there was a network of U.N. personnel who had sex with underage girls and that Bourguet had engaged in similar activity in a previous U.N. posting in the Central African Republic.
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Hey, these UN sons-of-bitches didn't ask us if we also wanted to rape little Congolese girls!
A clear violation of UN protocol.
15 yr old girl - 14 months =
14 year old girl was raped.
(And if she JUST turned 15, then she was possibly as young as 13 when she was raped.)
These soldiers are from the same organization that criticizes American behavior in Iraq.
With a title like that, we expect pics..
;)
You and I hated the rape rooms of Saddam. Why should we tolerate them from the U.N.? On the basis of their human rights violations, it's critical that we stop funding the U.N. immediately, and order them out of the U.S.
AGYG
Humiliation is always wrong, no matter who's doing it.
Please. Nothing in the UN is going to change. They will announce an internal review, a committee and say they need more US billions to do better
Every member of Congress needs to get thousands of copies of this thread.
Trading in sex has been a regular thing with these UN peacekeeping missions for years. It has occasionally been discussed, but this is the first time that it has broken out into the open and acknowledge (though very grudgingly) by the media.
What else can you expect. Many of the peacekeeping forces come from backward nations with thugs as leaders. And the French are probably worse, because although they call themselves civilized and mouth all the politically correct words, they really regard the Africans as subhuman primitives. They are only in Africa for the mineral wealth and the profits.
The UN peacekeepers in Kosovo have also indulged in sex trafficking, according to earlier reports.
A U.N. job is a pretty good gig for a pre-vert bureaucrat.
is this something new for the UN? or has this happened in the Balkans, Sudan, etc?
If this is a bumper sticker, where can I get one?
"Humiliation is always wrong, no matter who's doing it."
So you equate rape as the same as humiliation?
This site has a space to send questions regarding this story to Brian Ross, ABC news. Is there someone who can paste this FR entire thread in the box for questions and send it to him?
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id=482660
Feb. 10, 2005 — ABC News' chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross traveled to Africa to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against U.N. peacekeepers stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of Congolese women, boys, and girls surround the very same U.N. personnel sent to help and protect them — and all this despite a so-called zero tolerance policy touted by the United Nations toward such behavior.
Ross speaks with families of alleged victims, adolescents who say they provide sex to U.N. workers, and U.N. officials who say they are disciplining any staff involved in the abuse. But to date, of the hundreds of allegations of sex crimes involving U.N. personnel, only two have faced any kind of prosecution.
If you would like to ask Brian Ross a question about his investigation, fill out the form below. Ross' answers will be posted on ABCNEWS.com early next week.
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OMG.
Of course rape is alot worse. My initial point was, sadly some of the people yelling the loudest on this topic are the same ones who laughed off and excused the scandals of last year as "Boys will be boys...". Both are wrong, simple as that.
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