Report: U.N. Troops Exploited Congo Girls

[complain jane]

Report: U.N. Troops Exploited Congo Girls

By LEYLA LINTON
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - United Nations peacekeepers in Congo sexually exploited women and girls, some as young as 13, a U.N. watchdog office said Friday in a new confirmation that efforts to curb abuses by U.N. troops are not working.

Peacekeepers regularly had sex with Congolese women and girls, usually in exchange for food or small sums of money, investigators from the world body's Office of Internal Oversight Services found.

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http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050108%2F0011725529.htm&sc=1105

[complain jane]

1. Is this the latest smear against the UN?

[lenidog]

4. No this has been something

brewing for a long while. Even before Bush came to office.

[jpgray]

2. I forecast a lot of outrage from the US

Yet we are employing Dyncorp for this Iraqi adventure, aren't we?

:crazy:

[naryaquid]

3. Who/what is Dyncorp?

[jpgray]

6. US security contractor, involved in pubescent sex trade in the Balkans

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/

[maddezmom]

5. please check your link, not working for me

TIA :)

[complain jane]

7. Sorry, I fixed it.

Happens to me all the time when I post links on DU for some reason unless I just post the link itself.

[NNguyenMD]

8. Just a reminder the UN does not officially have any "troops"

of its own, and if these pedophilic bastards get away with sexual exploitation of war refugees, its the military authority of their native country who are to blame, not the UN.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Correct, yet wait for the RW spin from the likes of NewsMax et al

[GOPFighter]

10. I wish they had mentioned what country's troops...

...were involved. And I wonder just how hard the U.N is trying to thwart this problem. Granted, it's probably hard to stop. Throw a bunch of young men with horns, away from home, with a bunch of desperately poor young girls and you've got a problem. The only deterrent is harsh punishment.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

11. yeah, peacekeepers from WHAT Country?-UN=bad-US=good

When the U.S. takes over another country, and when we hear about it from the U.N. as the world comes together to stop us, at least here at home people will have no problem supporting our invasion and ignoring anything the U.N. says.

[LynnTheDem]

12. Are they raping them, like US troops in Iraq & Afghanistan?

Are they also raping the female soldiers, like US troops in Iraq & Afghanistan?

Pentagon unveils rape policy - New rules follow scandals in Iraq

Victims'-advocacy groups say dozens of women serving in Iraq and Kuwait have reported being assaulted, primarily by male military colleagues. Last year, Pentagon figures showed that more than 100 service personnel in the Persian Gulf region - including Iraq and Afghanistan - reported being sexually assaulted.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050105/REPOSITORY/501050349/1037/NEWS04