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Explicit Photos Fan U.N. Sex Scandal
Los Angeles Times ^ | 2/12/05 | Maggie Farley

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: centralafrica; congo; peacekeepers; scandals; un; uncorruption; unitednations; unmonsters; unpeacekeepers
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To: saquin

Hey, these UN sons-of-bitches didn't ask us if we also wanted to rape little Congolese girls!

A clear violation of UN protocol.


61 posted on 02/12/2005 2:50:46 PM PST by TeddyCon
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To: mollynme; All
9 months gestation + 5 month old baby = 14 months ago the rape occurred...

15 yr old girl - 14 months =

14 year old girl was raped.

(And if she JUST turned 15, then she was possibly as young as 13 when she was raped.)

62 posted on 02/12/2005 3:10:04 PM PST by BagCamAddict (Congratulations to the brave blue-fingered Iraqis !!)
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To: saquin
Well that does it......Bill Clinton IS the perfect man for U.N. Supreme Ruler.
63 posted on 02/12/2005 3:12:47 PM PST by Osage Orange ("Political interest can never be separated in the long run from moral right" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: freebilly

These soldiers are from the same organization that criticizes American behavior in Iraq.


64 posted on 02/12/2005 3:14:40 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: saquin

With a title like that, we expect pics..

;)


65 posted on 02/12/2005 3:28:23 PM PST by Next_Time_NJ (NJ demorat exterminator)
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To: saquin
I don't want to see these photos any more than I wanted to see Abu Gharib photos. It's just wrong for the press to be able to break the Geneva Convention.
As for the UN perps. Lock them up and throw away the key.
66 posted on 02/12/2005 3:40:59 PM PST by armymarinemom (but should never follow the words 'I support the troops")
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To: JeanS
Dear Mr. President:

You and I hated the rape rooms of Saddam. Why should we tolerate them from the U.N.? On the basis of their human rights violations, it's critical that we stop funding the U.N. immediately, and order them out of the U.S.

AGYG

67 posted on 02/12/2005 3:53:35 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: saquin

Humiliation is always wrong, no matter who's doing it.


68 posted on 02/12/2005 4:15:45 PM PST by richmwill
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To: demkicker

Please. Nothing in the UN is going to change. They will announce an internal review, a committee and say they need more US billions to do better


69 posted on 02/12/2005 4:21:24 PM PST by GeronL (--I'm thinking, I'm thinking!)
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To: Jasper

Every member of Congress needs to get thousands of copies of this thread.


70 posted on 02/12/2005 4:23:45 PM PST by GeronL (--I'm thinking, I'm thinking!)
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To: saquin

Trading in sex has been a regular thing with these UN peacekeeping missions for years. It has occasionally been discussed, but this is the first time that it has broken out into the open and acknowledge (though very grudgingly) by the media.

What else can you expect. Many of the peacekeeping forces come from backward nations with thugs as leaders. And the French are probably worse, because although they call themselves civilized and mouth all the politically correct words, they really regard the Africans as subhuman primitives. They are only in Africa for the mineral wealth and the profits.

The UN peacekeepers in Kosovo have also indulged in sex trafficking, according to earlier reports.


71 posted on 02/12/2005 4:27:39 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: GeronL

A U.N. job is a pretty good gig for a pre-vert bureaucrat.


72 posted on 02/12/2005 4:29:54 PM PST by alrea (HELP WANTED. New Jersey Director of Homeland Defense: must be willing performer.)
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To: maine-iac7

is this something new for the UN? or has this happened in the Balkans, Sudan, etc?


73 posted on 02/12/2005 5:27:37 PM PST by katiedidit1
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To: saquin
My God!!! I looked at the name quick also, and thought that in Didier Bourguet.......The I was actually an L, now bizarre!
74 posted on 02/12/2005 5:29:58 PM PST by gidget7
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To: blackie

If this is a bumper sticker, where can I get one?


75 posted on 02/12/2005 5:56:57 PM PST by cjmae
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To: richmwill

"Humiliation is always wrong, no matter who's doing it."

So you equate rape as the same as humiliation?


76 posted on 02/12/2005 6:04:12 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (So I talk to myself, at least I am talking to a mind that is my equal)
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To: Liberty Valance

This site has a space to send questions regarding this story to Brian Ross, ABC news. Is there someone who can paste this FR entire thread in the box for questions and send it to him?


http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id=482660

Feb. 10, 2005 — ABC News' chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross traveled to Africa to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against U.N. peacekeepers stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of Congolese women, boys, and girls surround the very same U.N. personnel sent to help and protect them — and all this despite a so-called zero tolerance policy touted by the United Nations toward such behavior.

Ross speaks with families of alleged victims, adolescents who say they provide sex to U.N. workers, and U.N. officials who say they are disciplining any staff involved in the abuse. But to date, of the hundreds of allegations of sex crimes involving U.N. personnel, only two have faced any kind of prosecution.

If you would like to ask Brian Ross a question about his investigation, fill out the form below. Ross' answers will be posted on ABCNEWS.com early next week.


Name:

City and State:

E-mail Address:

Your Question:



77 posted on 02/12/2005 7:47:36 PM PST by CitizenM
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To: mollynme

OMG.


78 posted on 02/12/2005 7:49:00 PM PST by rintense
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Of course rape is alot worse. My initial point was, sadly some of the people yelling the loudest on this topic are the same ones who laughed off and excused the scandals of last year as "Boys will be boys...". Both are wrong, simple as that.


79 posted on 02/12/2005 7:57:28 PM PST by richmwill
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To: pbrown
Why aren't they plastered all over tv.

Because the press hasn't figured out how to blame Bush and the GOP for this. If it doesn't accomplish that fact they don't care about it.
80 posted on 02/12/2005 8:01:10 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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