UN leaked report: French raped African children aged 8-15 when they asked food!

[Muhammed Zakir]

"Do this and we will give food - French Soldiers!!!

“...
Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World, said the report detailed interviews with six children, aged eight to 15, who approached the French soldiers to ask for food.

"The children were saying that they were hungry and they thought that they could get some food from the soldiers. The answer was 'if you do this, then I will give you food'," Donovan told AFP news agency.

"Different kids used different language."

The report by the UN human rights office was commissioned amid fears of sexual abuse against children last year as tens of thousands were displaced by fighting and unrest in the country.

The UN employee accused of the leak, Swedish national Anders Kompass, is based in Geneva and turned the report over to French authorities because his bosses had failed to take action, The Guardian reported.

He has been suspended and faces dismissal for breaching protocol, the paper said.

But UN officials said Kompass passed on the confidential document before it was presented to senior officials in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, suggesting that senior UN officials were not even aware of the report's findings when it was leaked.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/french-soldiers-accused-raping-car-children-150430031734446.html

Other sources:

http://nypost.com/2015/04/30/refugees-french-soldiers-raped-children-in-the-central-african-republic/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3061222/France-opens-probe-alleged-sexual-abuse-troops-C-Africa.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/french-minister-jean-yves-le-drian-peacekeepers-abuse-children-come-forward
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/05/02/more-french-child-rape-cases-central-african-republic-possible
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/01/peacekeepers-accused-of-raping-killing-kids.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20150502-exclusive-french-sex-abuse-central-africa

Google news: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=middle+african+republic+child+raped+by+french&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ei=TFpGVYLzB8asmAWi84DoAw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=460&dpr=2

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[Tusk]

The UN employee accused of the leak, Swedish national Anders Kompass, is based in Geneva and turned the report over to French authorities because his bosses had failed to take action, The Guardian reported.

He has been suspended and faces dismissal for breaching protocol, the paper said.

Shoot the messenger. The irony is the UN is supposed to be humanity's pinnacle institution dealing with human rights and that is the reaction A lesson in how to destroy your credibility. The correct action would have been to suspend his bosses

[Chef Ramsay]

UN peacekeeping missions throughout Africa in the 90s were strife w/ abuses, both sexual and physical so this is hardly a surprise to me. Those that have worked under the UN banner have done nothing but to ruin their reputation in areas where they were supposed to help the most. I've long wanted the US to kick the UN out of NYC and stop giving them money.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Well, this ain't the first time. “Soldiers and police from Britain, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uruguay, Nigeria and Morocco have all been accused of, or arrested for sexual misconduct while on missions for organisations like the United Nations or NATO over the past decade.”

Central Africa to take 'legal action' against French troops' rape

The Central African Republic will take legal action against the French soldiers accused of raping children in exchange for food at a refugee camp, the country's justice minister has said.

"Legal action will be pursued... These are still very serious acts," said Justice Minister Aristide Sokambi yesterday, insisting his nation was not targeting France but individual soldiers.

Several children - the youngest just nine - allege that 14 soldiers dispatched to the impoverished nation as part of a peacekeeping force sexually abused some of them in exchange for food between December 2013 and June 2014.


Former French Defense Minister Finds Excuses for the Alleged Rape of Central African Children by French Soldiers


Screen capture of video of Former Defense Minister of France arguing that challenging conditions can explain odd behaviors (such as rape)

Afrique Info reports that JP Chevènement, a former defense minister of France, stated on public radio Europe 1 on May 3 that the challenging conditions that French soldiers face in the Central African Republic could explain “behavior of that kind” (see video above). Chevènement was referring to the allegation of child sexual abuse by French troops posted in the Central African Republic. The allegations surfaced after disciplinary proceedings were taken against a United Nations employee accused of leaking the allegations to the French authorities.

[bryant.coleman]

Huh.... the French again. The same people who armed the Hutu rebels, so that they could butcher some 1,000,000 Tutsis in 1994, in Rwanda and Burundi. The French will do anything to gain access to mineral and petroleum resources. They are rotten to the core and don't have any principles at all.

[saddampbuh]

interested if they'll tell us the ethnicity of the accused soldiers

[Muhammed Zakir]

France launches criminal inquiry into alleged sex abuse by peacekeepers

French prosecutors have ordered a criminal investigation into allegations that French peacekeeping soldiers raped children and demanded sex for food in the Central African Republic.

The decision follows revelations in the Guardian more than a week ago that a senior United Nations official had been suspended for leaking details of the alleged abuse to the French government.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Thursday it had decided to launch criminal proceedings after receiving a reply to its request for information from the UN about the accusations of sexual abuse by French soldiers serving with the peacekeeping operation Sangaris.

It said the investigation concerned “the rape of minors under 15 years old by persons who had abused the authority conferred upon them by their roles, and complicity in this crime”.
“Investigations will now continue under the authority of an instructing magistrate in order to get to the truth of the accusations,” it declared.

France has come under increasing pressure and criticism over its apparent failure to act quickly to identify and prosecute the suspected soldiers, and claims it has been sitting on the leaked UN report detailing the alleged sexual abuse.

The UN has been criticised for taking action against Anders Kompass, the official who leaked the report to the French – sources say because he knew the UN would not take action.

Kompass, director of field operations, was suspended last month and faces an internal disciplinary disciplinary hearing for breaching UN protocols.

On Wednesday an appeal tribunal found that the suspension of Kompass was unlawful and ordered his reinstatement while an internal management review continues.

His leak led the French to start a preliminary investigation in Paris in July last year, but no action appeared to have been taken until the scandal broke last week.

In its defence, the French prosecutor’s office on Thursday accused the UN of delaying the preliminary investigation by twice rejecting French efforts to hear from the UN coordinator who wrote the abuse report, despite her own willingness to do so in Paris.

“The UN hierarchy refused this questioning, indicating that the functionary benefited from immunity that had to be lifted before any questioning,” the prosecutor’s office said.

It also cited a total of more than six months of delays in French investigators’ efforts to get answers from the author, which finally resulted in written responses received on 29 April.

On Wednesday, the CAR justice minister, Aristide Sokambi, said his country was also launching legal action against the French military suspects.
“It’s not [operation] Sangaris. It’s not the whole of France. It’s individuals, it’s soldiers and it’s against them that we will act,” Sokambi said.

“I deplore the fact that we haven’t been joined about this investigation when we have cooperation agreements with France. So I’ve instructed the public prosecutor to open an inquiry and then try to collect evidence already available to the French,” Sokambi added, saying the allegations were “extremely serious”.
The French ministry of defence said it had collected “evidence from Central African Republic children accusing French soldiers of Operation Sangaris of sexual abuse”.
The statements from abused children were taken by UN staff and “outline the facts committed against around 10 children at the M’Poko airport area between December 2013 and June 2014”, the statement said.

About 14 French soldiers are under investigation, but very few have been identified, a legal source told Le Figaro newspaper.

Kompass was suspended on full pay on 17 April for having passed the confidential report detailing the alleged attacks on young boys to France in July last year. France reportedly wrote to Kompass thanking him for reporting the alleged abuse.

France intervened in the Central African Republic in December 2013 after a rebel group overthrew President François Bozize, sparking violence between Muslim- and Christian-led militias.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced by the fighting and many took refuge in makeshift camps, one of them near the airport at the CAR capital of Bangui. This is where French troops were stationed and the alleged abuse took place. As well as the 14 French soldiers, five peacekeepers from Chad and Equatorial Guinea are accused of having demanded sex acts from hungry children in return for food.
The French president, François Hollande, has said his country will act: “If some soldiers behaved badly, I will be merciless. If this information is confirmed, there will be exemplary punishment.”

The French defence minister, Jean-Yves le Drian, said the army had carried out an internal investigation but few of the alleged perpetrators had been identified. He appealed for the soldiers involved to hand themselves in.

• The headline on this article was amended on 8 May 2015. An earlier version said incorrectly that UN soldiers had been accused of sexual abuse. The soldiers are French troops serving with a French-run mission and are not under the command of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/france-criminal-inquiry-alleged-sex-abuse-french-soldiers-un-central-african-republic

[Muhammed Zakir]

French government and the UN deny a cover-up of the potentially devastating scandal, but whistleblower has been suspended for ‘breach of protocol’

Judges in France will investigate claims that French soldiers raped children in the Central African Republic, the prosecutor has said.

Fourteen soldiers are under investigation following statements by six children aged between nine and 13 that some were sexually abused by French peacekeepers between December 2013 and June last year.

It has been almost a year since the French authorities opened an initial investigation after receiving a leaked internal United Nations (UN) report in July last year. But despite sending police to the country to investigate in August, no children or soldiers were questioned and the allegations were never made public. It was only after they were revealed by The Guardian newspaper last month that the investigation was launched. The French government and the UN have denied trying to cover up the potentially devastating scandal, but the UN aid worker who leaked the report has been suspended for "breach of protocol".

Prosecutor Francois Molins said on Thursday he wanted to wait until he had spoken to the aid worker, Swede Anders Kompass, before launching the probe, and the UN had refused to lift his diplomatic immunity status as required for a formal interview. He had instead received written evidence from Mr Kompass on April 29.

He did not draw any connection to the fact that April 29 was also the day the story appeared in The Guardian.

French NGO Innocence in Danger, which works with child victims of violence, said it would take part as a civil party in the investigation.

The Central African Republic government said on Wednesday it would launch its own legal action against the French soldiers.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/africa/africannews/2015/05/08/france-to-probe-claim-its-soldiers-raped-children

[Muhammed Zakir]

Why do medias show "sex-for-food" scandal when peacekeepers rape but not "child rape scandal"? Wronging Rights?!

Courtesy: Wronging Rights and Vox.

The media has apparently decided to designate this children-rape as a “sex for food scandal”!

The idea seems to be that when peacekeepers rape children who are desperate for food, for some reason it does not actually count as rape, but rather is an exchange of food for sex. Worse, the wording suggests that by dispensing food to their victims, the rapists were merely causing a "scandal," not committing a crime.

And this isn't the first time this has happened. Cronin-Furman rounds up other examples of peacekeepers sexually abusing children that were also covered as "sex-for-food" stories in 2002 (West Africa), 2004 (DRC), 2006 (Liberia), and 2011 (Côte d’Ivoire).

This needs to stop. When child rape occurs, the media should call it what it is. Describing such incidents as "sex for food" minimizes the gravity of the crimes, by implying that the soldiers were compensating locals for transactional sex, rather than acknowledging what they were truly doing to vulnerable children. It's not "sex." It's rape.

Courtesy: Wronging Rights and Vox.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Judges to eye allegations of child sex abuse by French soldiers in Africa!!!

Link to video embedded image

Story highlights

  • Prosecutor announces judicial investigation of child sex abuse claims against French soldiers
  • Soldiers accused of raping, abusing children while deployed in Central African Republic.

A week after allegations of child sex abuse by French peacekeepers deployed to the Central African Republic rocked France, a Paris prosecutor announced that judges would investigate a number of people in the alleged rape and sexual abuse of minors.

The abuses were allegedly committed against a dozen hungry, vulnerable children at a displaced persons camp at M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, between December 2013 and June.

In its statement, the Paris prosecutor's office announced "a judicial investigation against unnamed persons accused of charges of rapes on minors" aged under 15 years, or complicity in this, "by people abusing the authority conferred by their functions."

Investigating magistrates will now continue the investigation, it said. It did not state how many soldiers were under suspicion.

According to the Paris prosecutor's office, it was sent a confidential U.N. document by the French Ministry of Defense in July reporting the testimonies of six children ages 9, 11 and 13 about abuses at the M'Poko camp.

Four of the children said they were victims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers with France's Operation Sangaris, and two said they had witnessed abuse.

'Severely traumatized'

On receiving the document, the military affairs section of the Paris prosecutor's office immediately launched a preliminary investigation, its statement said, and sent investigators to the Central African Republic for a week in August. They carried out a number of interviews but have not yet interviewed any children in connection with the allegations.

The Paris prosecutor wanted to speak beforehand with the U.N. official who wrote the report, the statement said, and she agreed to come to Paris.

"The U.N. hierarchy, however, refused this hearing, indicating that the official benefited from an immunity that had to be lifted before any hearing," the statement said.

Eventually it was agreed that the official could complete a written questionnaire, which was returned to the Paris prosecutor's office last week, it said.

The director of an advocacy group that was sent a copy of the leaked U.N. report told CNN last week that French soldiers forced hungry, homeless young boys to perform sex acts on them in return for small amounts of food, water and sometimes some cash.

"The children were severely traumatized by the events," said Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/07/world/france-un-car-sex-abuse-claims/

[BADecker]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

[Muhammed Zakir]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

[BADecker]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

Yes. It is time to stop such. But how? Whoever has the strength to stop the U.N. from doing its evil, is simply someone who will do greater evil sometime, right?

We look for the return of Jesus. Then the evil will be stopped by One Who is righteous, and Who has the power to control everything.

[jaysabi]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

Yes. It is time to stop such. But how? Whoever has the strength to stop the U.N. from doing its evil, is simply someone who will do greater evil sometime, right?

We look for the return of Jesus. Then the evil will be stopped by One Who is righteous, and Who has the power to control everything.

By the statements you just made, god has the power to stop the UN so he will clearly do greater evil, right?

And if Jesus has the power to stop evil upon his return, but takes his sweet time coming back, then the evil that happens in his absence is partly his fault, no?

[BADecker]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

Yes. It is time to stop such. But how? Whoever has the strength to stop the U.N. from doing its evil, is simply someone who will do greater evil sometime, right?

We look for the return of Jesus. Then the evil will be stopped by One Who is righteous, and Who has the power to control everything.

By the statements you just made, god has the power to stop the UN so he will clearly do greater evil, right?

And if Jesus has the power to stop evil upon his return, but takes his sweet time coming back, then the evil that happens in his absence is partly his fault, no?

If God stops the U.N., He will do it in righteousness. Chances are that the divil will stop the U.N. if people don't do it first.

Again, God only does righteousness. If there is fault in Jesus taking his time, then the fault is ours, not His.

[jaysabi]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

Yes. It is time to stop such. But how? Whoever has the strength to stop the U.N. from doing its evil, is simply someone who will do greater evil sometime, right?

We look for the return of Jesus. Then the evil will be stopped by One Who is righteous, and Who has the power to control everything.

By the statements you just made, god has the power to stop the UN so he will clearly do greater evil, right?

And if Jesus has the power to stop evil upon his return, but takes his sweet time coming back, then the evil that happens in his absence is partly his fault, no?

If God stops the U.N., He will do it in righteousness. Chances are that the divil will stop the U.N. if people don't do it first.

Again, God only does righteousness. If there is fault in Jesus taking his time, then the fault is ours, not His.

On the one hand it seems awfully convenient. On the other hand, Christians sure do shoulder a lot of blame then for the non-return of Jesus.

[Buttknuckle]

This just makes me sick.  WTF is wrong with people?  And bryant, I agree but the french dont have a monopoly on being evil. See: attempted genocide of native americans, japanese comfort houses, the firebombing of dresden, I could go on but I wont.

[BADecker]

This is nothing. Watch the following videos if you have not yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=memory+of+the+the+camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCOKNCwHmQ

This is something. Rape for food scandal have been going for a long time by UN peacekeepers and it should be stopped.

Yes. It is time to stop such. But how? Whoever has the strength to stop the U.N. from doing its evil, is simply someone who will do greater evil sometime, right?

We look for the return of Jesus. Then the evil will be stopped by One Who is righteous, and Who has the power to control everything.

By the statements you just made, god has the power to stop the UN so he will clearly do greater evil, right?

And if Jesus has the power to stop evil upon his return, but takes his sweet time coming back, then the evil that happens in his absence is partly his fault, no?

If God stops the U.N., He will do it in righteousness. Chances are that the divil will stop the U.N. if people don't do it first.

Again, God only does righteousness. If there is fault in Jesus taking his time, then the fault is ours, not His.

On the one hand it seems awfully convenient. On the other hand, Christians sure do shoulder a lot of blame then for the non-return of Jesus.

Actually, that's the reason that Christians become Christians. It is because they feel guilty - shoulder the blame - and turn to Jesus for something to do about it. Once a Christian has heard about Jesus, his guilt should be taken from his shoulders (even though the remorse might remain) because Jesus bore all the guilt on the cross. The Christian is now forgiven.

[BlitzandBitz]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

I guess these story was less important then the one in the link.

[bryant.coleman]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

I guess these story was less important then the one in the link.

1,400 children abused.... and no one dared to catch the perpetrators, as they were all from the Muslim community. Even now the media is trying to whitewash the incident by not giving adequate coverage. I really doubt whether any of the abusers will be adequately punished for the crimes which they have committed.