Abu Ghraib? One billion hours of news coverage and loathing against America. A U.S. soldier fires his weapon killing a terrorist? A billion hours of news coverage and loathing against America. United Nations staff involved in pedophilia, rape, and prostitution? Who knew?
UN: 150 sex abuse charges in Congo peacekeeping
The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary-general in the peacekeeping department.
Lute, an American, said there was photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations and most of the allegations came to light since the spring.
“We are shining a light on this problem in order to determine its scope, and we will not stop there,” Lute told a news conference. She did not say if 150 different people were involved but indicated some suspects committed more than one offense.
In May the United Nations reported some 30 cases of abuse among peacekeepers in the northeastern town of Bunia, where half of the soldiers are stationed.
Since then one French soldier was sent home and three U.N. civilian staff were suspended, with many other cases expected to follow. Reports from the region say soldiers from other nations have also been repatriated to face charges at home.
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Not to worry: Kofi Annan is on it. Of course he was on Rwanda too and 800,000 people were slaughtered. And he’s on the Sudan thing too where so far only 70,000 have been slaughtered. So no probs.
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