U.N. PeacekeepinG?..NaW.
“The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is investigating new allegations implicating UN peacekeepers in the “sexual exploitation of minors,”..
New allegations of sexual abuse by UN troops in DR Congo continues..
MONUC has received allegations about the existence of a major prostitution ring involving minors, close to a large concentration of Congolese soldiers and Blue Helmets (UN forces) in South Kivu, (in the) northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” the UN mission said in a statement Thursday.
“To attract the girls, the pimps used as a major advantage the fact that the Blue Helmets were there and could have money.”
MONUC’s reputation was sullied two years ago by revelations that peacekeepers were involved in the sexual abuse of 13-year-old girls..
Set up in 1999 and known by its French acronym, MONUC counts some 17,600 soldiers, the largest peace mission currently deployed by the United Nations.”
Sexual Abuse: The gift that keeps on giving.
Long term effects of child abuse include fear, anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, inappropriate sexual behavior, poor self esteem, tendency toward substance abuse and difficulty with close relationships.
( Browne & Finkelhor, 1986.)
“WHEN SEXUALLY abused boys are not treated, society must later deal with the resulting problems, including crime, suicide, drug use and more sexual abuse, said the study’s author, Dr. William C. Holmes of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.”
“The earlier studies found that one-third of juvenile delinquents, 40 percent of sexual offenders and 76 percent of serial rapists report they were sexually abused as youngsters.”
Young girls who are forced to have sex are three times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders or abuse alcohol and drugs in adulthood, than girls who are not sexually abused.
Sexual abuse was also more strongly linked with substance abuse than with psychiatric disorders. It was also suggested that sexual abuse may lead some girls to become sexually active at an earlier age and seek out older boyfriends who might, in turn, introduce them to drugs.
Psychiatric disorders were from 2.6 to 3.3 times more common among women whose CSA included intercourse, and the risk of substance abuse was increased more than fourfold, according to the results.
(Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., et al, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Archives of General Psychiatry 2000;57:953-959.)
Young girls who are sexually abused are more likely to develop eating disorders as adolescents. Abused girls were more dissatisfied with their weight and more likely to diet and purge their food by vomiting or using laxatives and diuretics.
Wonderlich suggests that abused girls might experience higher levels of emotional distress, possibly linked to their abuse, and have trouble coping.
( Stephen A. Wonderlich, M.D., et al, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Fargo, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2000;391277-1283.)
Have you hugged a U.N. Peacekeeper today? 
Peacekeeping cough cough…was designed to assist countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace. Ha.
UN peacekeepers—soldiers and military officers, police and civilian personnel from many countrie are supposed to errrrrrr…..”monitor and observe” peace processes that emerge in post-conflict situations and assist conflicting parties to implement the peace agreement they have signed.
(Where is the part about molesting 13 year old girls?..Hmmm)
What are they “supposed” to be doing instead of raping, pillaging and trafficking children?
Oh…. promoting human security, implementing confidence-building measures, strengthening the rule of law, and aiding with economic and social development.
Well, well, if that’s the case shouldn’t there be a strong inverse correlation between peacekeeping deployments and abuse ? In other words, when peacekeeping is present , shouldn’t abuse decrease instead of increase?
Apparently not.
In case your’e interested in where the majority of ole “Blue Helmets” come from.
Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Jordan, Nepal, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Uruguay and South Africa.
Time to deep six the “blue” and “green” helmets dontcha think?
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August 20th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Sunday KeeBee Links…
Thomas and I sat down last night, and we agreed to add this to the site. Starting today, any of the posts put up–by me–will be focused on the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. I try to do my best when it comes to highlighting these fine bloggers, but n…
August 20th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Deep six them?
I’d deep 12 them, just to be safe!
August 20th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
One of our new guys on the local one-horse police force served a tour as a U.N. Peacekeeper in Bosnia. He has nothing at all positive to say of the U.N. Naturally, cos he’s a decent human being.
August 20th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Your list of countries providing smurfs is all telling.
August 20th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
A LITTLE PIECE OF THIS A LITTLE PIECE OF THAT..
THE U.N. WHICH STANDS FOR U..NDERTAKING N..OTHING, HAS REPLACED THE CIRCUS IN NEW YORK WHEN BARNUM AND BAILEY LEAVE TOWN.. THE ONLY DIFFICULT PART IS TRYING TO PICK OUT THE CLOWNS FROM THE CIRCUS ANIMALS!!!!!! KOFI AS RINGMASTER…STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS AND WATCH ME YOUR RINGMASTER… KOFI THE AMAZING…MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS APPEAR IN MY SONS OVERSEA ACCOUNT..WHILE WE CLAIM TO BE DOING SOMETHING……
August 21st, 2006 at 1:12 am
http://www.mullings.com/dr_08-21-06.htm
Rich Galen said:
“The United Nations was the perfect reason for the existence of plywood”
We shoul;d board the place up and send the ambassadors home.
Kofi goes to Tehran … Why?
What deals did he make that he will cash out when his term end in December?
We had the Oil For Food ( Cash for Palaces ) Plan.
What UN plan is going on now?
Nukes for North America?
I can’t stand it.
August 21st, 2006 at 1:35 am
Wait wait wait…are you telling me that the UN isn’t perfect…that their motivations might be fallable? Well I never…rabble rabble rabble…and a guffaw.
August 21st, 2006 at 1:54 am
I despise the UN. It is past time to get out. This is a topic that makes my blood boil and I will have to post on it soon.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:02 am
This is a great post - I’m going to link to it tomorrow (headed off to sleepland for now). A society is only as at peace and secure as are its women and children. This even more the fact since it is girls who grow up to be women who then rear either functionally or dysfunctionally the children of the next generation; and boys who grow up to become men who either learn to protect or also exploit. What the UN troops are doing is, as you point out, quite the opposite of peacekeeping; it is sowing the seed of future bitter conflict and suffering. Maybe once WWIII is over we can “deep six” the UN as we did the LON and create something where corrupt and dictatorial regimes have no part in guarding the hen house.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:03 am
Thanks y’all for the comments and inputs..great as usual!
August 21st, 2006 at 9:37 am
Can’t say that I’m very surprised. Incidents such as these are probably inevitable with such a large contingent of forces. Still…coming from the United Nations forces that are supposedly there to protect the population makes it even worse.
August 21st, 2006 at 10:19 am
Sorry, got here late for this post…
Taken from the United Nations, General Assembly, WOM/1571, August 8th, 2006
A new constitution adopted in February contained explicit provisions to ensure equality between men and women, but, legislation only went so far in a nation emerging from an armed conflict that had exacerbated violence against women and eroded the country’s economic and social fabric, the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo told the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was told today.
The reality is that the implementation of legal safeguards was hampered by social conditions. Two decades of conflict had not created a favorable environment for jobs, as an example, regardless of the Government’s commitment to ensuring employment opportunities for men, women and youth.
Prostitution was another case in point. Open prostitution was now outlawed, but, the “hidden prostitution” promoted by need was harder to eradicate. There were no longer legislative obstacles to women’s involvement in politics but an obstacle remained in terms of women’s lower status and their low level of involvement.
I know, you’re thinking, “What dos this have to do with child prostitution and the UN?
Only, EVERYTHING.
Many of the people of the Congo are beyond poor. Poor in America equates to wealth for the Congo.
They have lived forever in a country whose officials have looked the other way when it comes to how people treat one another. They people of the Congo live with poverty and thrive through immorality.
The so called “peacekeepers” are unaffected by the poverty of the Congo.
They need not sell themselves or sell others for food but they are not immune to the immorality facing them every single day. Should they be? Yes, and why aren’t they? Because immorality knows no economic or social boundry.
In America, we live with legalized immorality. Homosexuality is immoral, yet it is legal. Pornography is immoral, yet it is legal. Abortion is immoral, yet we lead the world in that category.
What is happening in the Congo, and elsewhere is without doubt a deplorable situation. The chance that UN peace keepers are taking advantage of the poor in the Congo for sexual perversion, if found to be fact, must not go unpunished. Yet the truth remains that a level of moral conduct must be achieved before any nation will see it’s people flourish.
Where does that leave America? Will the decline of Americas’ moral foundations cause a reversal here?
Take a good look around you, what do you see?
August 21st, 2006 at 10:43 am
I’m here a little late, but better late than never!
Yeah, the UN is absolutely corrupt and we need to pull out completely. I don’t understand why we haven’t already done so.
An excellent post, Angel, as always.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:20 am
The UN is so funny…
sadly…
Can we change the name yet?
“Useless Nonsense”
August 21st, 2006 at 11:27 am
So sad. And we give the UN a lot of it’s money.
August 21st, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Where is the MSM outrage over the guilt of these soldiers? Why aren’t they in brigs and jails awaiting the outcome of an investigation into their crime? Oh, there were no US Soldiers involved? That explains no MSM coverage, no outrage, no guilt before a trial even…
The UN is a useless and ineffective dinosaur. Time for it to be dissolved - perhaps in sulfuric acid?
August 21st, 2006 at 3:53 pm
It’s the League of Nations all over again.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:01 pm
The UN is nothing more than an international crime syndicate, and it’s time we treated them like the scum they are.
Is there anything worse than molestation and rape? Not much!
Old Soldier…
I LOVE that acid suggestion! 
August 21st, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Child sexual abuse by Muslims, the United Nations and your neighbor…
I don’t want to talk about pedophilia, child sex abuse, rape, … I really don’t. But I am compelled to do just that. Not because of the JonBenet Ramsey case. That is just one case, one child. I don’t want…
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:08 am
Great post and I see that TypePad (lousy most of the time) is actually sending trackbacks today. It’s a miracle! ha Good work!