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[FiggyCal]

In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the U.N. peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.

"I did not even have breasts," said a girl, known as V01 — Victim No. 1. She told U.N. investigators that over the next three years, from ages 12 to 15, she had sex with nearly 50 peacekeepers, including a "Commandant" who gave her 75 cents. Sometimes she slept in U.N. trucks on the base next to the decaying resort, whose once-glamorous buildings were being overtaken by jungle.

Justice for victims like V01 is rare. An Associated Press investigation of U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world — signaling the crisis is much larger than previously known. More than 300 of the allegations involved children, the AP found, but only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time.

"Let us declare in one voice: We will not tolerate anyone committing or condoning sexual exploitation and abuse. We will not let anyone cover up these crimes with the U.N. flag," Guterres said.

But the proclamation had a depressingly familiar ring: More than a decade ago, the United Nations commissioned a report that promised to do much the same thing, yet most of the reforms never materialized.

For a full two years after those promises were made, the children in Haiti were passed around from soldier to soldier. And in the years since, peacekeepers have been accused of sexual abuse the world over.

In one particularly grim case in Haiti, a teenage boy said he was gang-raped in 2011 by Uruguayan peacekeepers who filmed the alleged assault on a cellphone. Dozens of Haitian women also say they were raped, and dozens more had what is euphemistically called "survival sex" in a country where most people live on less than $2.50 a day, the AP found.

Haitian lawyer Mario Joseph has been trying to get compensation for victims of a deadly cholera strain linked to Nepalese peacekeepers that killed an estimated 10,000 people. Now, he is also trying to get child support for about a dozen Haitian women left pregnant by peacekeepers.

More here: https://apnews.com/e6ebc331460345c5...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

 

[King Tubby]

It's absolutely horrific, and since the UN has no jurisdiction over the peacekeeping troops it seems almost impossible to punish crimes like these without being bogged down in a diplomatic nightmare.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

What do you do when "Peacekeepers" are just rapists? They should get the fuck out if they're just going to rape children. disgusting.

 

[krazen]

Yup. Lets not forget single handedly causing a cholera outbreak killing 7k Haitians.

Saddest thing about the Haiti earthquake is to see the world basically shit on it for a few years as NGO's basically used it as a fundraising commercials; by and large billions went in and its basically in the same state.

 

[AgentCooper25]

There are two main and connected issues that allows this to happen to the extent it does.

1. In any unbalanced power situation there is always the threat of abuse. The Catholic Church for example. However most modern armies have moved away from this sort of thing when they dropped conscription and became the more P.R focused machines that they are today. However,

2. Because usually only third world nations send troops for peacekeeping missions (extra training in their mind) the professionalism/training/leadership is low at best. Then add in the fact that the U.N itself can exercise almost no authority over the troops sent by these nations and you have a recipe for disaster that gets repeated every time the U.N sends Peacekeepers.

An interesting showcase of the failures of U.N peacekeeping can be found in the book "Shake Hands with the Devil" which is about the U.N mission in Rwanda by the commander of the mission there.

 

[CREMSteve]

This is sickening.

 

[Cohsae]

Seems nothing has changed since Kathyrn Bolkovac revealed what was happening in Bosnia.

 

[Doominated]

Why the fuck do they get to bear the UN flag if the UN has absolutely no jurisdiction over what they do? Strip that shit away and let the UN make decisions, and quickly at that. This kind of shit is inexcusable.

 

[juliushandle]

Where was the Clinton Foundation? I remember how the media portrayed Hillary saving Haiti.

 

[marrec]

Seems nothing has changed since Kathyrn Bolkovac revealed what was happening in Bosnia.

How does this keep happening? I mean, I know logistically, but why isn't someone stopping this shit.

 

[Sulik2]

The sooner humanity dies off the better. We are a disgusting waste of a species. This is horrific.

How does this keep happening? I mean, I know logistically, but why isn't someone stopping this shit.

Because the majority of humanity are actually terrible people. Give freedom from consequence people do anything.

 

[Beartruck]

So the UN was Pizzagate all along? Stop the planet, I want to get off.

 

[zoukka]

How does this keep happening? I mean, I know logistically, but why isn't someone stopping this shit.

People are animals.

 

[TheMan]

Eye opening, really didn't expect this. Also didn't realize that the UN had no jurisdiction over soldiers even though it's their mission.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

People are animals.

Animals eat and fuck as needed.

We are more like a virus, a disease spreading and exterminating anything in our way.

Agent Smith was right all along.

 

[JaseC]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1359865

 

[Real Hero]

The sooner humanity dies off the better. We are a disgusting waste of a species. This is horrific.

You want those children to die? Pretty fucked up

 

[Hickbilly Deluxe]

The UN is a clusterfuck. No power to really do anything if any of a few set nations objects, no jurisdiction over its own forces, and can't be held accountable for their actions.

 

[Foffy]

JESUS.

Aren't they there to be there for others and their difficulty? You know, to ease exploitation and suffering, not be perpetrators in it?

 

[Alavard]

Where was the Clinton Foundation? I remember how the media portrayed Hillary saving Haiti.

You're really blaming this on the Clinton Foundation? Holy shit.

Since 2010, the Clinton Foundation has raised a total of more than $30 million for Haiti, including relief funds as well as projects focused on supporting Haiti’s small and medium businesses, improving livelihoods, enhancing education and exploring the nexus of agriculture, energy and environment. Today, the Clinton Foundation focuses on creating sustainable economic growth in the five priority sectors of energy, tourism, agriculture, environment, and artisans/manufacturing. The Foundation also works to develop full-cycle investing, bringing together producers, investors, and markets in a way that is socially, environmentally, and economically impactful. The Clinton Foundation has helped Haitian businesses develop their skills, increase their productivity, and connect with international partners.

How does any of that sound like they would be involved in the peacekeeping?

 

[sinkfla87]

You want those children to die? Pretty fucked up

Yeah, the misanthropy of comments like that seem weird because obviously it's a reaction of empathy given to the victims which just so happen to belong to the concept of humanity as well. I have zero sympathy for those who abuse children so a firing squad for those fuckers would be cool with me. I can't imagine the horror those kids have endured

 

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