UN pedophile brigades hit Haiti

Washington Times:

Reports that peacekeepers raped teenage girls have surfaced in Haiti, where a United Nations mission so far had avoided the sexual abuse scandals that have sullied the international organization's reputation in other parts of the world.
Natasha, whose real name is being withheld to protect her, says she was raped by a Sri Lankan peacekeeper in this quiet city an hour west of Port-au-Prince when she was 15 years old. Her mother forbade her from making a complaint, until now, nearly two years later.
"I thought they came for peace, not war," said Natasha, now 17, who was the top student in her eighth grade class before she was forced to drop out after the purported rape. "I thought they came to protect us. I never thought they could abuse me in this way."
However, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti has investigated 34 other cases of reported sexual abuse and exploitation since it arrived in the country 2? years ago. Among them is the case of a 15-year-old girl who in September 2004 accused a Brazilian peacekeeper of raping her inside a U.N. naval base.
U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst said three investigations conducted found no evidence substantiating Natasha's charges. The girl's lawyer condemns the investigations as a whitewash, complaining that the U.N. never gave him or his client the final report.
No case of rape and only one case of sexual exploitation by U.N. personnel has been substantiated by the mission, which has more than 6,600 soldiers and 1,700 police officers. In March 2005, a U.N. investigation concluded that two Pakistani riot police officers had paid for sexual relations with a woman in the city of Gonaives. They were removed from Haiti, dismissed from the police force and sentenced to one year in prison by the Pakistani government, Mr. Wimhurst said.
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The United Nations has been rocked by a series of sexual abuse scandals implicating peacekeepers in recent years, highlighted by the revelation of widespread cases of rape, pedophilia and prostitution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004. In response, departing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan publicly admitted to the United Nations' failure to stop sexual misconduct and began an internal effort to fight the problem.
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They do have a history and it appears that they are repeating it. It is part of Kofi Annan's legacy of incompetence. This kind of misconduct comes from a lack of discipline and leadership. The UN has that in abundance.

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