News UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp: "Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering.
The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers.
Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers.
The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a 'zero tolerance' attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation."
Stories like this are so common. I don't know why people persist in making the UN out to be morally superior to anyone else. There are people who believe any war is wrong unless the UN declares it. Well, any war the US wages at least. But why? The UN represents a circle of tyrants and failed states, who put on suits and pretend to be statesmen. And our media and politicians are stupid enough to fall for it. I hate the UN.
The Independent has found that mothers as young as 13 - the victims of multiple rape by militiamen - can only secure enough food to survive in the sprawling refugee camp by routinely sleeping with UN peace-keepers.
Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers.
The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a 'zero tolerance' attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation."
Stories like this are so common. I don't know why people persist in making the UN out to be morally superior to anyone else. There are people who believe any war is wrong unless the UN declares it. Well, any war the US wages at least. But why? The UN represents a circle of tyrants and failed states, who put on suits and pretend to be statesmen. And our media and politicians are stupid enough to fall for it. I hate the UN.
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