UN pedophile brigades hit again in Sudan

Telegraph:

Members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Sudan are facing allegations of raping and abusing children as young as 12, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

The abuse allegedly began two years ago when the UN mission in southern Sudan (UNMIS) moved in to help rebuild the region after a 23-year civil war.

The UN has up to 10,000 military personnel in the region, of all nationalities and the allegations involve peacekeepers, military police and civilian staff.

The first indications of sexual exploitation emerged within months of the UN force's arrival and The Daily Telegraph has seen a draft of an internal report compiled by the UN children's agency Unicef in July 2005 detailing the problem.

But the UN has not publicly acknowledged that there is a problem and when contacted repeatedly by this newspaper UN headquarters refused to comment.

The allegations will be deeply embarrassing to the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, as the UN is pushing to be allowed to launch a new peacekeeping mission to help end the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's north-western region, Darfur.

The Telegraph understands that the Sudanese government, which is deeply opposed to the deployment of UN troops to Darfur, has also gathered evidence, including video footage of Bangladeshi UN workers having sex with three young girls.

Many of the children who claim to have had sex with UN personnel in Juba belong to southern Sudan's "lost generation", separated from their families by the recent civil war, who now sleep rough on the streets of Juba, the regional capital.

This paper has gathered more than 20 victims' accounts claiming that peacekeeping and civilian staff based in the town are regularly picking up young children in their UN vehicles and forcing them to have sex.

It is thought that hundreds of children may have been abused.

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The story goes on to give interviews with some of the children. The Telegraph also editorializes about the UN not being "fit for purpose." What makes the story credible is the past conduct of the "peace keepers." The main question I have about the story is the filming of the acts by the Sudanese government. The first question is why didn't they stop it if they saw it happening. The second question is more cynical. Since it is known that Sudan opposes UN force in the region to stop their genocide in Darfur, did they set the situation up to have a reason to keep them out? Since both the UN forces and the Sudanese have a demonstrated lack of morals it is difficult to say at this point. One thing seems pretty clear. The UN force lacks the discipline necessary for their job.

Don Surber questions whether any left wing sites have an interest in the pedophile brigades.