[SauronOfMordor]

Realisticly speaking, the article's title is trying to paint a picture of forcible rape, while the actual text shows the situation was actually one of girls (some underage) trying to survive through prostitution, and the UN troops securing sex by sharing their rations and pay.

The article noted that often the identification of the troops involved was difficult because it was too dark. If it's too dark to identify the guy, then how was the trooper supposed to be able to accurately tell the age of the hooker?

I dislike the UN as much as anybody here, but much of this is a hit job. Troops far away from home will tend to try to hook up with the local girls unless kept on a very tight leash.

[kcar]

Well, how would we know if this piece is a "hit job" if the there is no mechanism to call the UN into account? Everything and anything can just be dismissed as political. For US soldiers, nothing can be dismissed. Even allegations proven totally false are repeated as though refutations were never advanced.

Next, if your whole mission is to provide humanitarian aid obtained from other people's funds, requiring sex in exchange, or even appearing to, is hardly professional. Hopefully this isn't something that the US military would condone. Sexual bribery of underage girls is not the same as "hooking up" with the locals.