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In
CAR, More Rape
by UN
Peacekeeping
Reported by
AI, UN Cover
Up
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 11 --
When
peacekeepers
from France
allegedly
raped children
in the Central
African
Republic and
the UN learned
about it a
year ago, the
UN and UNICEF
did nothing,
until UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous asked
to fire the
whistleblower
in March of
this
year.
Inner City
Press asked
UNICEF about
its role,
here.
Now Amnesty
International
reports in
detail on the
alleged rape
by UN
Peacekeeping
of a 12 year
old girl in
the PK5
neighborhood
of Bangui on
August 3. This
was a day
after UN
Peacekeepers
were fired on
there: that
is, it appears
to be a case
of rape as a
weapon of war.
So why,
as Inner City
Press has
previously
asked, doesn't
the UN's
Sexual
Violence and
Conflict
office and
Special
Representative
Bangura deal
with UN
Peacekeepers
using rape as
a weapon? This
is not, as
Bangura
previously
answered Inner
City Press,
sexual abuse
or
exploitation:
it is rape as
a weapon of
war. Where is
Ladsous, and
how does he
remain in his
position?
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