There are still too many complaints of sexual abuse against United Nations troops, the head of peacekeeping operations has said.
Jean-Marie Guehenno said the UN had investigated 295 cases under a new reporting system introduced last year. It could take several more years to reform the system fully, says Jordan's UN envoy who last year urged changes.
Last year, this same Guehenno fellow admitted that sexual abuse had occurred in every single location where the peacekeepers are deployed.
And when our heroes, the Nobel Peace Prize winning UN peacekeepers are caught, gang-raping twelve year olds, or trading food for sex with starving women, what happens to them? The UN does not punish them.
They simply get plane tickets home.
These criminals should be turned over to legitimate local authorities where such exist, and returned home pending civil proceedings filed in the offender's home country on the victim's behalf where they do not.
Disgusting.
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