UN Soldiers' Abuse in Haiti?

[Bim]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/03/minustah-un-haiti-abuse

Sickening is the only word that comes to my mind after reading/seeing this. Viewer beware: the article shows a video of UN soldiers apparently raping an 18 year old Haitian male.

Apparently this was also confirmed by ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peacekeepers-accused-sexually-assaulting-haitian-teen/story?id=14437122

What kind of peace are these guys keeping, i ask?

And let's not forget the UN peacekeepers are the main suspects of how the cholera ended up in Haiti in the first place. This is just... words fail me. Will anyone do anything about this?

 

[dannybananny]

And let's not forget the UN peacekeepers are the main suspects of how the cholera ended up in Haiti in the first place. This is just... words fail me. Will anyone do anything about this?

This cholera is maybe intentional because they want to depopulate and Haiti is more less forgotten land in the public eyes, and to answer your question, no one won't do anything. But this only shows that the only language that psychopaths understand is brute force and that evil can only be fought by the same.

 

[Jeremy F Kreuz]

Unfortunately this is been going on for many many years and everywhere where UN troops operate.

this is from 2005 (bold added)

Owen Bowcott, Friday March 25, 2005, The Guardian

The reputation of United Nations peacekeeping missions suffered a humiliating blow yesterday as an internal report identified repeated patterns of sexual abuse and rape perpetrated by soldiers supposed to be restoring the international rule of law.
The highly critical study, published by Jordan's ambassador to the UN assembly, was endorsed by the organisation's embattled secretary general, Kofi Annan, who condemned such "abhorrent acts" as a "violation of the fundamental duty of care".

The embarrassment caused by the misconduct of UN forces in devastated communities around the world - including Haiti, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Cambodia , East Timor and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - has become an increasingly high profile, political problem.

Allegations have recently surfaced that troops sent to police Liberia were regularly having sex with girls aged as young as 12, sometimes in the mission's administrative buildings.

In the DRC, peacekeepers were said to have offered abandoned orphans small gifts - as little as two eggs from their rations, says the report - for sexual encounters.

Used condoms, an inquiry by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services discovered, littered the perimeter of military camps and guard posts.

Alarm about the involvement of UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking first became widespread during the 1990s when investigators found soldiers were customers in brothels run in Bosnia and Kosovo which relied on women sold into forced prostitution. One recent estimate suggested up to 2,000 women have been coerced into sex slavery in Kosovo.

 

[Bim]

And let's not forget the UN peacekeepers are the main suspects of how the cholera ended up in Haiti in the first place. This is just... words fail me. Will anyone do anything about this?

This cholera is maybe intentional because they want to depopulate and Haiti is more less forgotten land in the public eyes, and to answer your question, no one won't do anything. But this only shows that the only language that psychopaths understand is brute force and that evil can only be fought by the same.

Well i'm concerned because what happens in Haiti has a direct effect in us here in the Dominican Republic, since we share the island. I keep hoping Haitians will finally get the chance they deserve for a better quality of life, but years keep passing and it only gets worse.

Jeremy: that's just disturbing on so many levels.