Posted on 10/06/2004 2:09:41 PM PDT by Lorianne
A SENIOR United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted.
Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com ...
Many of the incidents involving UN personell and DoD Contractors involved in child sex slavery in the Balkans happened in the 1990's during the Clinton administration, which hushed it up and did virtually nothing to combat/discourage either our military or its contractors from contributing to the problem of sex trafficking, child sex trafficking and slavery. The woman who tried to blow the whistle on Dyncorp, UN and US military involvement in sex trafficking in the Balkans was virtually silenced by the media during the Clinton Administration. These stories were on the back pages of newspapers at the time.
CONTRAST the silence over the complicity in buying and selling of women and girls and rapes of 12 year old girls by US military contractors (and UN personell) and our military .... with the WALL TO WALL media coverage of sexual mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Graib.
Only now, under BUSH's leadership are concrete steps being taken to do something about the sex slavery trade around the world, particularly in relation to our military and military contractos.
Why has it taken so long? Why the silence for so long? Why the contrasting uproar over alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq vs the virtual silence of gange rape of children and the buying and selling of children for sex in the Balkans?
Utterly disgraceful.
At least we are now under the Bush administration we are starting to do something about it. It's a step in the right direction at least.
Bosnia sex trade shames UN http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/inter...fm?id=160672003
Rumsfeld Warns Military, Contractors on Trafficking http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040..._423.html"
DoD Fights Human Trafficking With Training, Awareness http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225047/posts
Troops May Be Tried for Using Prostitutes http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/27-...004-369634.html
It's a nice headline. But I don't know if it's possible to "shame" the UN. They seem to be immune to shame.
The U.N. is soo corrupt. Sex trades stuff, Food for oil ... when will it end?
Bosnia sex trade shames UNAs opposed to all that stuff that the UN is rightly proud of. Which would be ... ah, um ... wait a minute ... no, I'm not backing toward the nearest exit ...
I totally agree, these people need to be brought to justice.
When they have turned the whole world into a something worse than a 3rd world country with a corrupt dictator. But that is just a guess.
Wonder what it would look like with a for sale sign in front of the UN buiding.
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