THE U.N.'S CONGO CRIMES (Michelle Malkin brings us up to date)

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THE U.N.'S CONGO CRIMES

 

By Michelle Malkin   ·   January 07, 2005 08:13 PM

 

Shame, shame, shame. This just in from UPI:

The U.N. watchdog office says peacekeeping troops have continued to abuse girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes paying two eggs for sex. U.N. peacekeeping officials say member states providing the soldiers must send sterner commanders and toughen punishment for perpetrators.

A report from the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services says, its "investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of local Congolese women and girls found that the problem was serious and ongoing. Equally disturbing was the lack of a protection and deterrence program."

Although troops knew an investigation was being conducted in eastern Bunia from June to September last year, they continued their activities, the report said.

The OIOS investigated 72 allegations, resulting in 20 case studies, the report said. Of these cases, perpetrators were positively identified in six, not identified in 11 and the accusations were not fully corroborated in two.

 

Voice of America's report adds the following:

Speaking to reporters Friday, lead investigator Barbara Dixon said her team concluded that sexual exploitation by blue-helmeted U.N. troops is a serious and ongoing problem.

"In our view, the problem is and continues to be widespread,” she said. “We focused on Ituri province, it seems there are allegations that cover all of the Congo, and as some of you have pointed out, it's not just limited to the Congo."

The U.N. report documents cases in which peacekeepers lured poverty-stricken teenagers into sex for small amounts of money and food.

At least two civilians working in the Congo peacekeeping mission have been charged with pedophilia. One was sent home to France where he is in jail awaiting prosecution. Another has been fired and sent home, where charges are pending. At least three other civilians and three soldiers are also facing charges in their home countries.

 

The United Nations. It's your world.

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[dufekin]

Michelle Malkin reveals just a tiny sliver of the unique moral authority of the United Nations. Maybe it's time for the NYPD to do a crackdown on their headquarters--no diplomatic immunity for sex criminals!

[rockprof]

Not just evil but stupid. The rate of HIV infection in the Congo is very high.

[SkyPilot]

She is so smart, and such a cutey.

It is hard to believe this 95 pound woman scares the hell out of Chris Matthews so much that he shouted her down to the point of lunancy last fall.

[patriot911]

"...sexual exploitation by blue-helmeted U.N. troops..."
They're appearantly already suffering from some nasty kind of VD. You'd think they would have learned a moral lesson.

On a serious note, lack of morals aside (like *that's* a news flash), where the hell is the discipline with these bozos? If that's the kind of soldier you get from a secular, internationalist culture, then I thank God we've got W for a commander-in-chief.

[dts32041]

I didn't know there was a Michelle Malkin rule similar to the AC rule?

[RaceBannon]

Her work doesn't get enough exposure.

[steenkeenbadges]

What on earth are U.N. "peacekeepers" fighting for? Honor -you can forget that. Country? Which country? God? They're mostly a bunch of loose cannons in a quasi-military case study in multiple personality disorder. No discipline, no loyalty, no pride.

And no good.

[cake_crumb]

"Not just evil but stupid. The rate of HIV infection in the Congo is very high."

Oh, UN staffers get free condoms from their bosses.

[JustAnotherSavage]

"Her work doesn't get enough exposure."

Very true. I click on her website nearly every day now, I may make it my home page. I think she has a chat group there too.

www.michellemalkin.com

[cake_crumb]

It's not just the "peacekeepers", it's the UN staff.

The Security Council voted last year to send more blue helmets, with accompanying staffers and staff-hangers on to Congo because the first group wasn't achieving the objective - DUH.

The UN NEVER achieves it's objectives, because it's part of the problem. Even if their intentions are honorable when they send vote to send people into a particular country, the problems are never solved because the UN is PART of the problem of corruption, illegal weapons sales, the drug trade, slave trade...you name it, UN people have been caught doing it.

[guinnessman]

If you want to give her more exposure, call your local editor and ask him to pick up her syndicated column

[infowarrior]

What on earth are U.N. "peacekeepers" fighting for? Honor -you can forget that. Country? Which country? God? They're mostly a bunch of loose cannons in a quasi-military case study in multiple personality disorder. No discipline, no loyalty, no pride. And no good.

What they are doing now, is merely keeping on a < sarcasm > "glorious" tradition of service in that particluar country.< /sarcasm > Never let us forget what the UN did in Katanga province in the 1960's, wher "brave soldiers" in UN blue helmets bombed schools and hospitals to force the breakaway Katangans to submit to Patrice Lmumba's Marxist government (so much for their much-vaunted "local determination" practices...)

the infowarrior