Aimee Tsesi, of Bunia, holds her 5-month-old grandchild, Deiudonne. Seated directly behind is Tsesi's 15-year-old deaf mute daughter, who gave birth to Deiudonne after being raped by a U.N. soldier from Uruguay. (ABC News)
Posted on 02/12/2005 9:47:09 AM PST by saquin
UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo.
ABC News' "20/20" program showed pictures taken from the computer of a French U.N. transport worker. The hard drive reportedly contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. In one frame, a tear can be seen rolling down the cheek of a victim.
The news report coincided with the U.N.'s new "zero- contact" rule banning any interaction between U.N. soldiers and locals in Congo.
The staffer, Didier Bourguet, 41, is facing charges of sexual abuse and rape in France. His lawyer, Claude de Boosere- Lepidi, said in court last week that there was a network of U.N. personnel who had sex with underage girls and that Bourguet had engaged in similar activity in a previous U.N. posting in the Central African Republic.
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Oh, well, then - that makes it OK
Aimee Tsesi, of Bunia, holds her 5-month-old grandchild, Deiudonne. Seated directly behind is Tsesi's 15-year-old deaf mute daughter, who gave birth to Deiudonne after being raped by a U.N. soldier from Uruguay. (ABC News)
I guess we shouldn't hold our breath waiting for rants from Teddy Kennedy and all the or Dems about this huh?
that makes it handy - she couldn't didn't say NO
We watched a Bruce Willis movie about the genocide in Nigeria called, "Tears of the Sun," the other night. I think that the movie is a fairly accurate depiction of what is going on in multiple places in Africa. I highly recommend the movie.
The UN needs to be disbanded. It is beyond reforming. Peace keeping missions need to be formed on an as needed basis by coalitions of the willing and funded on a pay as you go basis. You can't trust bureaucrats with the kind of money that would be involved.
Not unless you can hold your breath for years; it is, after all, "just about sex" perpetrated by their own kind.
Guard it? Hell that's like letting the fox build it, staff it, and devise the security and defense systems of it.
In so many words, yep.
The world needs a CURE.. or the hope for a cure.. Kick them out of New York City.. somebodys got to be FIRST.. to set an example..
But ...but...what about Abu Graib!!!
Meanwhile Kofi Annan is getting some kind of peace prize at that idiotic conference in Munich.
You mean putting the FOX in charge of the chicken coop!
That defense attorney sounds more like a prosecuter!
Booo! Bad choice of words!!!
If it does not further the anti-American agenda, the Liberal news media does not consider it news worthy.
How awful! Imagine OJ Simpson in prison!
I'll do ya one better. We need to hammer our representatives, relentlessly, until they get the message to stop funding this clusterf@#k, and boot this hell-hole of an organization off sovereign US soil.
So get those "cards and letters" ready folks. The sooner the better.
/jasper
The extremely high cost of justice would fall and there would be less lawyers so don't expect it to happen.
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