Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Kosovo UN troops 'fuel sex trade'
BBC ^

Posted on 05/06/2004 8:07:25 AM PDT by konijn

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-49 next last

1 posted on 05/06/2004 8:07:26 AM PDT by konijn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: *balkans
Albania soldiers in rape scandal


The trafficking of women is a continuing problem for Albania
Albanian police say several servicemen have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a 16-year old girl.
The men are accused of raping the girl before selling her to a gang in Kosovo which forced her into prostitution.

UN staff eventually rescued the girl and helped her to return to Albania.

Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Pellumb Qazimi, who issued a public apology to the girl, has suspended the commander of the base in north-western Albania where the men were stationed.

Some reports say four civilians have also been arrested in connection with the case.

The 16-year-old was first abducted at the Bisht Palle naval base in June and sexually abused by soldiers for two months, according to a police spokesman.

She was then "sold" to Albanian hotel owners, before ending up in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren.

UN officials found her in Kosovo with irregular documents and took her to a rehabilitation centre for trafficked women in Durres.

The teenager has decided to bring charges against her abusers, police say.

Crackdown

Human trafficking and the forced prostitution of women continue to plague post-communist Albania.

Attempts by the authorities to address the problems, in an effort to join eventually join Nato and the European Union, have so far been in vain.

Criminal gangs take advantage of police corruption, a weak judicial system and lax border controls to exploit young women.

A new report, co-written by the UN and the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has estimated that 120,000 women and children are trafficked into the EU each year, most of them through the Balkans.




2 posted on 05/06/2004 8:08:26 AM PDT by konijn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: konijn
Let me see if I understand this:

Christan girls are being abducted from eastern european countries (Moldova, Bulgaria and the Ukraine) and are being to forced to work in the sex industries in mostly Muslim countries (Kosovo and Albania). The main customers are UN personnel.

1. If the situation was reversed, would it be headlines news around the world?
2. The UN is one of the most corrupt organizations that man has ever invented.
3 posted on 05/06/2004 8:14:46 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: konijn
>>>Criminal gangs take advantage of police corruption, a weak judicial system and lax border controls ...

... and corrupt, autocratic, a**holes who cling to power at the cost of keeping the impoverished nation perpetually substandard.
4 posted on 05/06/2004 8:15:46 AM PDT by GeraldP (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
This has been going on for years. TIME magazine did an expose about it years ago. It still goes unnoticed.
5 posted on 05/06/2004 8:17:12 AM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: konijn
I guess the UN had to find other funding options after the Iraq Food for Fuel funds dried up.
6 posted on 05/06/2004 8:17:31 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: konijn
I'd be interested to know if there has been a war in the 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age where the presence of troops didn't lead to an increase in the "sex trade". There's a reason why it's called the "World's Oldest Profession".
7 posted on 05/06/2004 8:19:43 AM PDT by katana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
"If the situation was reversed, would it be headlines news around the world?"

If it was unfounded allegations of Serb soldiers taking advantage of 11-year-olds forced into prostitution then it would be declared 'genocide' by the Hague and the mainstream media.

The number of places in Kosovo where trafficked women and girls may be exploited, such as nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and cafes, has increased from 18 in 1999 to more than 200 in 2003.

Was the 1999 figure before of after NATO's war? I wonder if it was 0 when Milosevic was in power.

8 posted on 05/06/2004 8:20:28 AM PDT by joan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: cyborg
Maybe if these poor and enslaved girls are forced to make a naked human pyramid, maybe the world will take notice (or at least Bill Clinton).
9 posted on 05/06/2004 8:21:45 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
>>>Christan girls ...Muslim countries (Kosovo and Albania).

Wow, this has all the insight of a broken record player.

>>>1. If the situation was reversed, would it be headlines news around the world?

Yeah, let's forget that Albanian pimps export (abduct and exploit) way more women to Italy, Greece and Britain, i.e. Christian countries, than they import from Moldova, Bulgaria etc.
10 posted on 05/06/2004 8:24:02 AM PDT by GeraldP (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
yep
11 posted on 05/06/2004 8:24:21 AM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: joan
This type of thing NEVER happened while the Serbs controlled Kosovo, the brothel would have been flattened with artillery in a second. If the Serbs come back, the problem will stop in a matter of days.
12 posted on 05/06/2004 8:25:59 AM PDT by Seselj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: GeraldP
Yeah, let's forget that Albanian pimps export (abduct and exploit) way more women to Italy, Greece and Britain, i.e. Christian countries, than they import from Moldova, Bulgaria etc.

Do have have a source? Since you do not, I will take a guess that these Muslim gangs traffic in Christian girls. If you can show the reverse - ie - mostly Muslim girls being smuggled by mostly Christian gangs - than you may have a point...

13 posted on 05/06/2004 8:28:23 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: katana
I'd be interested to know if there has been a war in the 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age where the presence of troops didn't lead to an increase in the "sex trade". There's a reason why it's called the "World's Oldest Profession".

Whoa. You seem to be confusing prostitutes ("World's Oldest Profession") with sex slaves.

Not exactly the same thing. You do understand that right?

14 posted on 05/06/2004 8:33:43 AM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
>>>Do have have a source?

How about I will be the source, since I am acquainted with some of the people who have become traffickers. They don't give a sh** about religion, all they care about is money. They could care less whether their victims are Christian or Muslim. As you well know but choose to ignore here, Albania, is slightly majority Muslim, more so in rural areas, where the majority of exploited women are abducted from.
15 posted on 05/06/2004 8:34:12 AM PDT by GeraldP (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Frank fan
Yes I do and I should have read more than the title of the article before posting. My bad.
16 posted on 05/06/2004 8:42:23 AM PDT by katana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: GeraldP
How about I will be the source, since I am acquainted with some of the people who have become traffickers. They don't give a sh** about religion, all they care about is money. They could care less whether their victims are Christian or Muslim. As you well know but choose to ignore here, Albania, is slightly majority Muslim, more so in rural areas, where the majority of exploited women are abducted from.

That is interesting as I have traveled to many Muslim countries (both in war and peace). Nearly every Muslim male I have encountered (from US college educated to the worst piece of sh*ts) view all non-muslim females as whores and prostitutes. They view having sex with them (or forcing them) as nothing more than "dealing with a insect." Muslims women are not that better off in their lives, but a muslim male would never put a muslim female in a "position" to have sex with infidels.

17 posted on 05/06/2004 8:43:02 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: GeraldP
>>>>>>Yeah, let's forget that Albanian pimps export (abduct and exploit) way more women to Italy, Greece and Britain, i.e. Christian countries, than they import from Moldova, Bulgaria etc.<<<<<<

GeraldP, I have no firm data but based on anectdotal evidence and the names mentioned in the news reports it seems to me that Muslim Albanian thugs export Christian Albanian girls to slavery to "Christian" West.

Am I right?

18 posted on 05/06/2004 8:43:52 AM PDT by DTA (you ain't seen nothing yet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 2banana
Maybe they're not stupid enough to take pictures of their disgusting behavior?
19 posted on 05/06/2004 8:44:11 AM PDT by JmyBryan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: konijn
MASTER LIST UN FOOD/SEX FOR OIL SCANDALS
20 posted on 05/06/2004 8:50:29 AM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-49 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson