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Johanneswburg - The defence ministry says it has no knowledge of a United Nations report detailing sexual attacks on minors by South African soldiers stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
There have been allegations of 50 cases of sexual attacks on minors carried out by Monuc, the United Nations mission to the DRC, in Bunia in the north-east of the country over the past year.Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of sexual violence by UNAMSIL peacekeepers, including the rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Bo by a soldier of the Guinean peacekeeping contingent in March 2001 and the gang rape of a woman by two Ukrainian peacekeepers in April 2002 near Kenema (see below). There appears to be reluctance on the part of UNAMSIL to investigate and take disciplinary measures against the perpetrators.
Independent.co.uk.: Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their suffering.
Amnesty International slammed the United Nations and NATO for not doing more to punish its people for contributing to what has become a flourishing sex industry in the Balkan country.
BBC: The UN says its staff have been illegally detained, while Eritrea accuses the peacekeepers of serious crimes including paedophilia.
An Unmee report last June quoted Eritrean women as saying Irish peacekeepers on the mission had used prostitutes as young as 15.
TCM: A UN peacekeeping soldier has been accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in Congo.
The girl's family made the accusations against a Moroccan soldier serving in the mission in the eastern border town of Goma, UN spokeswoman Isabelle Broyer said.
The Independent: Nowhere is the problem uglier - or more embarrassing to the UN - than in Bosnia. The sex-slave industry scarcely existed here until the mid-Nineties.
"There is virtually no dispute any more that the issue of trafficking arose predominantly with the arrival of the peacekeeping troops in 1995," says Madeleine Rees, the head of the UN Office of the High Commission of Human Rights.
WEEKLY STANDARD: Two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory.[NY Times and The Australian]
World Net Daily: Palestinian gunmen used the UNRWA emergency vehicle as getaway transportation after murdering six Israeli soldiers in Gaza City on May 11. The footage shows two ambulances with flashing lights pull onto a street. Shots and shouts ring out during the nighttime raid. A gang of militants piles into one of the supposedly neutral ambulances, clearly marked "U.N." with the agency's blue flag flying from the roof, which then speeds away from the scene.
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1. In 1995, the U.N. assured the Bosnian Muslims that they could assemble in Srebrenica, a "safe area." Eight thousand Bosnian Muslims were then massacred while U.N. forces only a few miles away ignored the tragedy.
2. North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong II, has inflicted a holocaust on his people. Defectors and observers have estimated that more than a million people have starved to death in brutal Gulag-type camps. This catastrophe has created a flood of refugees into nearby China where an estimated 360,000 refugees may now be hiding in an effort to escape the brutalities at home. A United Nations Refugee Commission exists which is fully aware of this human catastrophe. China, however, says that these tragic human beings are “economic migrants” and “not refugees." China is clearly in violation of United Nations conventions and protocols. Where is the U.N.? It is certainly not challenging China, a power in the U.N. A cynical China then embraces the refugee convention as the “Magna Carta of international refugee law” while U.N. officials applaud.
3. The U.N. has elected Syria, Libya, Vietnam, China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and Zimbabwe to serve on the UNHRC as guardians of human rights. The U.S. was kicked off and replaced by Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism.
Libya, responsible for the 1988 bombing of a U.S. civilian jet in Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, was elected to chair the commission.
Thirty three countries voted for Libya. Only Canada and Guatemala voted against it. The European "allies" abstained from voting. The U.N. has elected Syria, Libya, Vietnam, China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and Zimbabwe to serve on the UNHRC as guardians of human rights.
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