US Solider; UN Workers, All the Same?

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From http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=28&si=1310478&issue_id=11863 which requires the free registration

PORNOGRAPHIC videos shot by a United Nations logistics expert in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked a sex scandal that threatens to become the UN's Abu Ghraib

The case has highlighted the apparently rampant sexual exploitation of Congolese girls and women by the UN's 11,000 peacekeepers and 1,000 civilians at a time when the UN is facing many problems, including the Iraqi "oil-for-food" scandal and accusations of sexual harassment by senior UN staff in Geneva and New York.

Investigations have already turned up 150 allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers and UN staff despite the UN's official policy of "zero-tolerance." One found 68 allegations of misconduct in the town of Bunia alone.

UN insiders said that two Russian pilots based in Mbandaka paid young girls with jars of mayonnaise and jam to have sex with them. But the men were tipped off and left the area before UN investigators arrived.

An international organisation examining the sex trade between MONUC and local women found that in March there were 82 women and girls who had been made pregnant by Moroccan men and 59 more by Uruguayan men.

The Frenchman with the homemade pornography accused of paedophilia was sent back to France in October and is in jail facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor.

There is a lot in common between the actions of US troops and these UN workers, except that the US boyos were acting on orders from on high IMO.

It really is such a shame that people will take advantage of others that they are supposed to be helping. Perhaps its just human nature.

Does any one know if they do a background check on UN staff, I assume they do.