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Related: About this forumPredatory Peacekeepers – UN Soldiers Are Committing Widespread Child Rape
By Claire L. Heuchan | 9:20 am, May 31, 2016
UN Peacekeepers have been raping children in the Central African Republic.
MINUSCA, the mission resulting in nearly a hundred allegations of child sexual abuse, gave soldiers the mandate to protect civilians and support transition processes following the devastation of war.
Instead, numerous Blue Helmets have used their position as an opportunity to engage in acts of rape and pedophilia. This abuse of power is no secret: it first emerged over a year ago. In fact, it is so widespread that the United Nations was subject to an independent report on the Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by International Peace Keeping Forces.
In exchange for the assistance they were deployed in order to provide, in exchange for basic necessities such as food and water, UN soldiers have been sexually exploiting children. The Blue Helmets attacked the very people they were sent to protect. Children as young as 7 have been targeted, with a girl forced to perform oral sex on French soldiers in exchange for a bottle of water and a sachet of cookies.
Three girls reported being stripped, tied up, and forced to engage in bestiality with a dog by a French military commander.
The brutality of this systematic child sexual abuse is entirely at odds with the humanitarian values the UN claims to uphold. Yet UN troops have a history of exploiting people in communities shattered by war and natural disaster, an institutional failure which is yet to see any meaningful resolution. From the international powers-that-be down to right-on liberals, many a blind eye has been turned.
The Predatory Peacekeepers campaign aims to end this abuse, and the culture that enables it, by forcing the world to sit up and take notice: to acknowledge that the soldiers positioned as good guys are too often perpetuating the worst sort of crimes against humanity, that Black African children are worthy of care and protection, that a laissez-faire attitude towards a system enabling child sexual abuse is what allows it to continue unchallenged.
Spearheaded by Samantha Asumadu and Guilaine Kinouani, the petition demands that the UN hold soldiers to account for the rape and abuse of children, with culprits fully investigated and prosecuted....
Hold the UN to account. Sign the petition here.
UN Peacekeepers have been raping children in the Central African Republic.
MINUSCA, the mission resulting in nearly a hundred allegations of child sexual abuse, gave soldiers the mandate to protect civilians and support transition processes following the devastation of war.
Instead, numerous Blue Helmets have used their position as an opportunity to engage in acts of rape and pedophilia. This abuse of power is no secret: it first emerged over a year ago. In fact, it is so widespread that the United Nations was subject to an independent report on the Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by International Peace Keeping Forces.
In exchange for the assistance they were deployed in order to provide, in exchange for basic necessities such as food and water, UN soldiers have been sexually exploiting children. The Blue Helmets attacked the very people they were sent to protect. Children as young as 7 have been targeted, with a girl forced to perform oral sex on French soldiers in exchange for a bottle of water and a sachet of cookies.
Three girls reported being stripped, tied up, and forced to engage in bestiality with a dog by a French military commander.
The brutality of this systematic child sexual abuse is entirely at odds with the humanitarian values the UN claims to uphold. Yet UN troops have a history of exploiting people in communities shattered by war and natural disaster, an institutional failure which is yet to see any meaningful resolution. From the international powers-that-be down to right-on liberals, many a blind eye has been turned.
The Predatory Peacekeepers campaign aims to end this abuse, and the culture that enables it, by forcing the world to sit up and take notice: to acknowledge that the soldiers positioned as good guys are too often perpetuating the worst sort of crimes against humanity, that Black African children are worthy of care and protection, that a laissez-faire attitude towards a system enabling child sexual abuse is what allows it to continue unchallenged.
Spearheaded by Samantha Asumadu and Guilaine Kinouani, the petition demands that the UN hold soldiers to account for the rape and abuse of children, with culprits fully investigated and prosecuted....
Hold the UN to account. Sign the petition here.
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Predatory Peacekeepers – UN Soldiers Are Committing Widespread Child Rape (Original Post)
shira
May 2016
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StarTrombone
(188 posts)1. I'd be careful
Heatstreet is owned by DowJones Co which in turn is owned by NewsCorp which of course is Murdoch and FauxNews
shira
(30,109 posts)2. Same story is all over Google. n/t
StarTrombone
(188 posts)3. Found it at Infowars too
shira
(30,109 posts)4. It's in the NYT, WAPO, CNN, Guardian, USA Today....
Human Rights Watch too.