Peacekeeping Horror
Yet another report of sex abuse at the hands of U.N. Peacekeepers in the Congo, this one saying that Peacekeepers engaged in sex with girls as young as 13, trading boxes of chocolate or as little as two eggs for sex. The abuse continued even after the initiation of an official U.N. investigation.
Investigators found “freshly used condoms” littering guard posts and command centres around Bunia, where peacekeepers from Pakistan, Morocco, Nepal and Bangladesh are based. “We are shocked, we are outraged, we are sickened,” said William Lacy Swing, who heads the UN mission in Congo.“Peacekeepers who have been sworn to assist those in need, particularly victims of sexual violence, instead have caused grievous harm. It is inexcusable. We are determined to stamp it out.”…
The investigators reported that many had been raped by gunmen during Congo’s civil war. The arrival in the country of 12,000 UN peacekeepers “augmented the problem”.
The United Nations, of course, it the only organization in the world that has “moral authority”.
