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U.N. fears peacekeepers commit sex abuse worldwide
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| 2/26/05
| Reuters
Posted on 02/26/2005 2:21:57 PM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) U.N. officials fear the sex-abuse scandal among peacekeepers in Africa is far more widespread and appears to be a problem in each of the global body's 16 missions around the world.
As the world body seeks to crack down on the abuse, it could bar countries from missions if they fail to prosecute offenders, even though the U.N. is hard-pressed to find contributing nations, the officials said yesterday.
Rocked by widespread abuse of women and girls, including gang rape, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations also has found sexual exploitation cases in at least four other missions -- in Burundi, Liberia, Ivory Coast -- as well as more recently in Haiti, they added.
''We think this will look worse before it begins to look better,'' Jane Holl Lute, assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, told reporters. ''We expect that more information will come from every mission on allegations. We are prepared for that.'' The undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, said that up to now the U.N. had avoided identifying countries that were slow to court-martial their troops but that he had demanded action within weeks in some cases.
''They are aware of a very direct threat which is that if they don't get their act together we are going to tell them to get out of their mission,'' Guehenno said, referring to all of the peacekeeping mission and not just the Congo.
There are nearly 11,000 military personnel in the Congo to help keep the peace after a civil war. The force is the largest among the more than 60,000 soldiers in U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; kofiannan; un; uncorruption; unitednations; unpeacekeepers; unsexscandal
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We need to throw this horde of criminals out of the United States!
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:21:59 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
U.N. fears peacekeepers commit sex abuse worldwideReuters misspelled hopes.
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:22:59 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: Lazamataz
Horny lot of F***ers huh?
Lord I despise the UN and the evil malfeasance it represents!
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:28:33 PM PST
by
CaptSkip
To: Lazamataz
And BJ Klintoon hopes he gets to be UN Secretary General, because he's missing out on all the fun!
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:29:05 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
maybe we can get them a one way ticket on on of those space scuttle programs....
To: wagglebee
No controlling legal authority.
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:31:42 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG -ret)
To: Free_at_last_-2001
The hell with that! They can swim home.
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:31:47 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
The UN's answer is to send more troops...to protect the local populace...from their own troops.
Does anyone miss the Irony in this?
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:32:17 PM PST
by
Guillermo
("Now how can a Puerto Rican lose a fly ball in the sun?' - Harry Caray)
To: Delta 21
>>>> No controlling legal authority <<<<<<
Post of the Day, Week, Month!
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:35:05 PM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
To: wagglebee
What the Hell is to be expected? They impose half civilized, undisciplined,misfit troops on people that lack any defense, and can't understand why abuse occurs?
Sure, We had some bad apples, but I'll guarantee You, Ours look like altar boys, compared to theirs.
The UN is no solution, to anything.
To: wagglebee
The U.N. fears? Ha ha ha...
The U.N. fears it will get caught. That's all.
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:46:33 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:54:01 PM PST
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: wagglebee
"The undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, said that up to now the U.N. had avoided identifying countries that were slow to court-martial their troops but that he had demanded action within weeks in some cases. " No accountability, No professionalism, No ethics, No consequences for horrible performance..
This is what comes of ANY organization where the majority of members are Turd World a$$holes -- with no cultural history of Judeo/Christian morality, justice or fair play...
The U.N. can be no better than its members -- and most are human garbage.
Semper Fi
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posted on
02/26/2005 2:57:41 PM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: pbrown
Thanks. Use it all you like.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:00:02 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: wagglebee
U.N. officials fear the sex-abuse scandal among peacekeepers in Africa is far more widespread and appears to be a problem in each of the global body's 16 missions around the world. The undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno
Another frog not doing his job.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:05:24 PM PST
by
RJL
To: wagglebee
Thieves,Looters .Child rapists a Nice lot there!
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:07:18 PM PST
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods.)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:15:48 PM PST
by
4Liberty
(wages & revenues are price signals-- and some people [unions, subsidized cos] can't accept criticism)
To: wagglebee
As if this was anything new. It was commonly said to have happened in Cambodia, and that was a dozen years ago.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:22:22 PM PST
by
Flash Bazbeaux
("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
To: wagglebee
LOL This is rich. The UN officials SHOCKED, when the UN officials are in on it.
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:33:09 PM PST
by
ETERNAL WARMING
(We have the best politicians corporate money can buy)
To: ETERNAL WARMING
Sociopathic criminals are usually "shocked" when the get caught!
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posted on
02/26/2005 3:34:03 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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