Report: Soldiers made kids have sex for food

[NaturalHigh]

Paris (CNN)—Hungry, homeless young boys in the Central African Republic were forced by French soldiers to perform sex acts on them in return for food or money, the director of an advocacy group said Thursday, citing a confidential United Nations report on alleged abuses.

Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World, told CNN the report detailed testimonies from six children interviewed last year by staff from the U.N. children's agency UNICEF and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The children give harrowing accounts of their own experiences and abuses they had witnessed, and they recounted the experiences of friends of theirs, she said. "There are a few cases where a boy describes the sodomizing of a friend by soldiers who are threatening to beat him if he tells anyone about what they are doing," Donovan said.

The allegations concern French soldiers deployed to the Central African Republic as peacekeepers.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/world/france-un-car-sex-abuse-claims/index.html

If this is true, they need to throw these guys under the jail!

[diabeticman]

1. K&R for visability. This makes my skin crawl.

[NaturalHigh]

3. Mine too.

If there's a hell, one would think these people have a reservation.

[Omaha Steve]

6. x 3

[Agschmid]

2. Wtf.

[JimDandy]

4. WTF #2!

[malaise]

5. It's true

and it's part of the imperial/colonial mentality.
This shite has been going on for centuries

[closeupready]

10. +1.

[Jefferson23]

7. Wow, the peacekeepers provided the trauma and exploitation/abuse...sickening. n/t

[riderinthestorm]

8. Despicable!

[951-Riverside]

9. European soldiers are absolute monsters in African nations they occupy

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- Belgian military officials Thursday promised a thorough review of training exercises, following the publication of photos of alleged atrocities by elite paratroopers during the 1993 U.N. Somalia peace mission.

Defense Minister Jean-Pol Poncelet said he was considering disbanding the elite Belgian paratrooper unit at the center of the scandal. The newest photos, published Wednesday in the daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, include one of a Belgian paratrooper urinating on the face of a dead Somali.

Photos released earlier show two paratroopers holding another Somali over an open fire, allegedly "roasting" him until he was severely burned. Two paratroopers were arrested last week and charged with assault and battery in the incident.

Paratroopers acquitted 2 years ago

Members of Belgium's elite paratrooper unit served in the United Nation's "Operation Restore Hope" mission in Somalia in 1993. Two years ago, 15 paratroopers were put on trial for other abuses during the U.N. mission, including torture, killings and the mock-execution of children. Most were acquitted.

But the photographs, which came to light in the last two weeks after two former paratroopers came forward anonymously, bolster accusations that Belgian soldiers tortured and killed civilians during the mission.

The Belgian military promised that anyone found guilty of human rights abuses will be punished.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/17/belgium.somalia/