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When police raided his home, the man was allegedly about to rape a 12-year-old girl sent to him in a law enforcement sting operation. As the Times reported, a senior Congolese police officer confirmed the bed was surrounded by large mirrors on three sides, with a remote control camera on the fourth side. In March, an international group probing the scandal found 82 women and girls had been made pregnant by Moroccan UN staffers and 59 others by Uruguayan staffers. One UN soldier accused of rape was apparently hidden in the barracks for a year. Jean Pierre Ondekane told a top UN official that all UN "peacekeepers" in Kisangani would be remember for would be "for running after little girls," the Times reported. Most of the sexual abuse and exploitation, says the report, involves trad ing sex for money, food or jobs. However, some victims say they were rap ed, but later given food or money to make the incident appear to have be en consensual "rape disguised as prostitution." UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno told th e London paper: "The fact that these things happened is a blot on us. What is important is to get to the bottom of it and fight it a nd make sure that people who do that pay for what they have done." The UN has promised to investigate and prosecute the widespread allegat ions.
WND reported last month, the global organization is no t known for its forthrightness and candor in such internal investigation s The agency has been criticized for ignoring evidence or wrongdoing in the past including accusations of rape and murder by "peacekeepers." In fact, previous revelations of peacekeeping abuses have only been revea led by news organizations. Such was the case in Cambodia in the early 19 90s and later in Somalia, Bosnia and Ethiopia. "I am afraid there is clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have t aken place," Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted. "This is a shameful thing for the United Nations to have to say, and I am absolutely outrage d by it." Annan said the allegations concerned a small number of UN personnel and promised to hold those involved accountable. "I have long made it clear that my attitude to sexual exploitation and ab use is one of zero tolerance, without exception, and I am determined to implement this policy in the most transparent manner," Annan said. But Jordans Prince Zeid Raad Al Hussein, a special adviser to Annan and who led one investigative team, said in a confidential report obtained b y The Times: "The situation appears to be one of 'zero-compliance with z ero-tolerance' throughout the mission." The new charges of rape and pedophilia by UN troops and workers in Cong o are not the first scandal involving UN workers and troops in Africa. Former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's tenure wa s marked by scandalous charges that he played a leading role in supplyin g weapons to the Hutu regime that carried out a campaign of genocide aga inst the Tutsi tribe in 1994. As minister of foreign affairs in Egypt, Boutros-Ghali facilitated an arm s deal in 1990, which was to result in $26 million of mortar bombs, rock et launchers, grenades and ammunition being flown from Cairo to Rwanda. The arms were used by Hutus in attacks which led to up to a million deat hs. The role of Boutros-Ghali, who was in charge at the UN when it tur ned its back on the killings in 1994, was revealed in a book by Linda Me lvern. In "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide, " Boutros-Ghali admits his role in approving an initial $58 million arm s deal in 1990, which led to Egypt supplying arms to Rwanda until 1992. He says he approved it because it was his job as foreign minister to sel l weapons for Egypt.
A military court reportedly sentenced two paratroopers to a month in jail and a fine of 200 pounds for the offense. Another Belgian soldier reportedly forced a young Somali to eat pork, dri nk salt water and then eat his own vomit. Another sergeant was accused o f murdering a Somali whom he was photographed urinating upon. Another ch ild, accused of stealing food from the paratroopers' base, died after be ing locked in a storage container for 48 hours. Fifteen other members of the same regiment were investigated in 1995 for "acts of sadism and tor ture" against Somali civilians. The pattern of abuse was not confined to Belgian troops. Belgium was actu ally the third country in the peacekeeping group to charge troops with s erious crimes against Somali citizens -- including rape, torture and mur der. In 1995, a group of Canadian paratroopers were investigated for tor turing a Somali to death and killing three others. Gruesome photos were published in a Milan magazine of Italian soldiers to rturing a Somali youth and abusing and raping a Somali girl. Paratrooper s claim they were specifically trained in methods of torture to aid inte rrogation. According to one witness, Italian soldiers tied a young Somal i girl to the front of an armored personnel carrier and raped her while officers looked on. The upcoming January 2005 edit ion of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine will be the most devastati ng journalistic expose yet of the United Nations including the rapidly expanding national movement to get the United States to leave the globa l body.
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