Amongst those sent home, a French soldier.
Posted on 11/23/2004 12:12:03 PM PST by Ginifer
The United Nations is investigating some 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Accusations include paedophilia, rape and prostitution at a UN site in Bunia, says UN official Jane Holl Lute.
She told a news conference that there was photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations.
Reports of abuse involving Monuc troops first surfaced last year, prompting the UN's internal watchdog to launch an inquiry.
"It's important that those missions be above reproach," the assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping operations said.
"We are shining a light on this problem in order to determine its scope, and we will not stop there."
After being briefed on its progress, Mr Annan expressed his outrage on Friday saying that a small number of civilian and military personnel had committed "shameful" acts of gross misconduct.
He said that those involved must be held accountable.
The UN mission in DR Congo now consists of about 10,000 troops and was first deployed in 2001, two years before a major war there ended.
Extreme sexual violence has been an integral part of conflicts throughout eastern DR Congo and many girls are reluctant to testify against those in authority.
A UN probe rejected similar allegations of sexual exploitation of refugees by UN staff in West Africa two years ago.
Pictures and Videos of a sexual nature. Nice, UN is getting their own Abu Graib.
Amongst those sent home, a French soldier.
How do they expect UN staff to operate in a foreign land without access to their culture's preferred recreational activities? ;)
Except that the panties on their heads are berets!
Click this picture & goto "last" for the latest UN scandals:
As proof, DU and the other lefty sites had about a thousand angry threads about abu Ghraib but only two replies to a single thread when this UN story was posted. They aren't going to investigate their own perverts.
What do you want to bet this too gets covered up?
US 0ut of the UN
UN out of the US!
They've been screwing the rest of us for years.
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