Hooray for UN PeaceKeepers!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-06-03 04:05am

Just when you didn't think the UN wasn't corrupt.. it turns out they are. AND a bunch of pedos too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3769469.stm

Looks like UN PeaceKeepers are indulging in the children of the Congo. What a wonderful bunch of people, ey?

Choice quotes:

'Faela is 13 and her son Joseph is just under six months old. ... "If I go and see the soldiers at night and sleep with them then they sometimes give me food, maybe a banana or a cake."'

'"It is hard to get food sometimes, if you don't have a husband or someone to fight for you," says 15-year-old Maria. "The UN soldiers help girls like me, they give us food and things if we go with them."'

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-06-03 04:06am

kojikun wrote:Looks like UN PeaceKeepers are indulging in the children of the Congo. What a wonderful bunch of people, ey?

Knew about this a while ago; but it wasn't in reputable enough sources
for me to post on SDN. Guess it's now credible that the Beeb has
picked up on it.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-06-03 04:27am

Not surprising, considering that alot of the countries the peacekeepers come from are also on the Shithole list

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-06-03 09:09pm

I thought it was okay when the UN did it. The UN is God. Praise the UN. Praise the UN.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-06-03 09:19pm

Ah, the "Food for a Fuck" program.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-03 10:50pm

Jeez, another wonderful UN mess.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2004-06-04 12:00am

SPOOFE wrote:I thought it was okay when the UN did it. The UN is God. Praise the UN. Praise the UN.

Tell me something..are you aware that the UN is made up of nearly every nation on the planet? and that UN peackeepers could well be from Kenya or Maylasia as from Britian or NZ?. UN soldiers refelect the nation and armies they come from

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-06-04 12:22am

To be fair, a UN peacekeeper wasn't the father of the thirteen year old's baby. Regardless, though...

According to the article those peacekeepers are from Uraguay and Morocco. Doesn't reflect well on the home countries, does it?

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2004-06-04 12:29am

Mayabird wrote:To be fair, a UN peacekeeper wasn't the father of the thirteen year old's baby. Regardless, though...

According to the article those peacekeepers are from Uraguay and Morocco. Doesn't reflect well on the home countries, does it?

Indeed it does not. I wish people would bear that in mind.
The UN is not a nation state and it displays a great degree of ignorance to critisize them as if they were.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-04 12:30am

Stuart Mackey wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:I thought it was okay when the UN did it. The UN is God. Praise the UN. Praise the UN.
Tell me something..are you aware that the UN is made up of nearly every nation on the planet? and that UN peackeepers could well be from Kenya or Maylasia as from Britian or NZ?. UN soldiers refelect the nation and armies they come from

True, but the fact that the UN is employing Peacekeepers of such poor quality that they're commiting pedophilic rapes against the people they're supposed to be helping is not good at all. After all, what good is the UN if they resort of employing pedophiles (and quite probably other human rights abusers as well) then one has to ask what good is it.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2004-06-04 12:50am

Stormbringer wrote:
Stuart Mackey wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:I thought it was okay when the UN did it. The UN is God. Praise the UN. Praise the UN.
Tell me something..are you aware that the UN is made up of nearly every nation on the planet? and that UN peackeepers could well be from Kenya or Maylasia as from Britian or NZ?. UN soldiers refelect the nation and armies they come from
True, but the fact that the UN is employing Peacekeepers of such poor quality that they're commiting pedophilic rapes against the people they're supposed to be helping is not good at all. After all, what good is the UN if they resort of employing pedophiles (and quite probably other human rights abusers as well) then one has to ask what good is it.

Because of the nature of the UN it is forced to use such crap 'soldiers'.
The only way that the UN could be effective, the way people expect it to be effective, is if it had its own armed forces. It would also need authority over nations to implement its wishes such as a federal nation has over its several States.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-06-04 01:04am

How DOES the UN get it's troops?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-04 01:07am

kojikun wrote:How DOES the UN get it's troops?

Beg, and take in even the saddest, sorriest mother fucker to join.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-04 01:10am

Stuart Mackey wrote:Because of the nature of the UN it is forced to use such crap 'soldiers'.
The only way that the UN could be effective, the way people expect it to be effective, is if it had its own armed forces. It would also need authority over nations to implement its wishes such as a federal nation has over its several States.

Which is of course the problem, the UN is largely useless for this sort of thing (and others) unless it's turned into a one world, superstate. The problem with that being obvious.

Exmoor Cat · Post by **Exmoor Cat** » 2004-06-04 03:06am

The UN pays for soldiers on its operations directly to the governments involved, therefore a lot of shyster militaries use it as a way of gravy-training it/subbing their own troops. Highly corrupt from the handing over of the cash to the deployment to the lack of accounting or oersight from UN HQ.

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2004-06-04 12:48pm

Stormbringer wrote:
kojikun wrote:How DOES the UN get it's troops?
Beg, and take in even the saddest, sorriest mother fucker to join.

uh, but the UN doesn't directly hire troops. member nations contribute units from thier regular armed forces and second them to UN command. this misconduct reflects badly more on that particular nations standing army then on the UN as a whole...

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-06-04 02:22pm

AniThyng wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:
kojikun wrote:How DOES the UN get it's troops?
Beg, and take in even the saddest, sorriest mother fucker to join.
uh, but the UN doesn't directly hire troops. member nations contribute units from thier regular armed forces and second them to UN command. this misconduct reflects badly more on that particular nations standing army then on the UN as a whole...

And that makes what I said untrue how? The UN does indeed have to beg for troops if it wants to carry out an operation. And they do take what ever's given which means that sorry assed, human rights abusing scumbags are indeed present as UN peacekeepers.

I would submit that the conduct of the UN Troops that the UN employs under it's banner does indeed reflect on the character and qualities of the UN. They chose to employ those troops under their aegis and that damn well does reflect on them.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-06-04 04:43pm

Before the talk of third world scum in blue helmets goes any further, someone might want to look up who exactly is currently being used in Bunia, because that was originally a French led deployment along with some other troops from EU countries. They might have rotated out by now, but I don't know.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-06-04 05:18pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Before the talk of third world scum in blue helmets goes any further, someone might want to look up who exactly is currently being used in Bunia, because that was originally a French led deployment along with some other troops from EU countries. They might have rotated out by now, but I don't know.

The BBC wrote:Faced with starvation and worried for her son, Faela, along with other girls in a similar predicament, turned to the Uruguayan and Moroccan Monuc soldiers stationed directly across from the camp.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-06-04 06:54pm

Morroco I can't comment on, but Uruguay was using specially trained rape dogs for interrogation purposes as recently as the late 1970's.
It's not impossible that some of the upstanding moral officers involved with that uplifting bit of humanity are involved with the training of today's Uruguayan military.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-06-04 06:58pm

You know, there's a certain irony in the same people who angrily objected to generalizations about US troops based on Abu Ghraib turning around and making generalizations about the UN based on the behaviour of certain peacekeepers from shithole nations.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2004-06-04 08:17pm

Frank Hipper wrote:Morroco I can't comment on, but Uruguay was using specially trained rape dogs for interrogation purposes as recently as the late 1970's.
It's not impossible that some of the upstanding moral officers involved with that uplifting bit of humanity are involved with the training of today's Uruguayan military.

Rape... dogs???

You're being serious?

That's fucking beyond evil. That's just.... Fuck. (no barfing smilies?)

I guess we'll have to send Imperium over to stop them.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-06-04 08:33pm

Yes, rape dogs. That is some seriously dated information, seeing as how it came from The Book of Lists 1976 edition, but they got their info from Amnesty International, if memory serves.
There was a Military Dictatorship in power there at the time.

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