U.N. ‘peacekeepers’ went on a rampage of rape and murder through a Muslim district of the Central African Republic on the 2nd and 3rd of August, 2015. One of the victims was a 12 year-old girl who said, “When I cried, he slapped me hard and put his hand over my mouth”. Her rape, and the murder of an old man, and his 16 year old son, were reported by Amnesty International on the 11th August. The following day, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was pushed into action. “I cannot put into words how anguished, angered and ashamed I am by recurrent reports over the years of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN forces,” he said at a press conference in New York as he announced the resignation of the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic.
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The U.N. does indeed have a dark history of abuse in the countries whose peoples it claims to be protecting, and the Central African Republic is no exception. In May of this year, a secret report that French U.N. Peacekeepers sodomized 10 to 12 children in the Central African Republic was leaked to the World’s press. The U.N. had suppressed it and had taken no action to bring the perpetrators to justice, while the only person to be punished was Anders Kompass because he made the report public.
The Central African Republic is a place of terror and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch reported that 415,000 people have been forced out of the country since fighting erupted in 2013. Most of these refugees are Muslims, like Balla Hadji, a 61-year-old truck driver, who stayed only to be shot in the back after being disturbed from his morning breakfast by U.N. peacekeepers. Balla Hadji’s 16-year-old son, Souleimane, was shot too when he ran to help his father, and his daughter was prevented from reaching them after ‘peacekeepers’ fired yet another shot. Now, the daughter is an orphan and her mother is a widow. The father died in the street, and the son was allowed to be taken to the hospital where he died, but only after the rampaging soldiers finished the day’s ‘peacekeeping’.
The U.N. is sometimes believed to be above the petty interests of individual countries, but the only thing it is above is the law. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Ultimate responsibility rests with governments who send their people”, which makes the U.N. a ‘safe-haven’ where rapists and murderers can commit crimes in failed states with little chance of ever being brought to justice when they return home. If despite all the abuses in the Central African Republic, anyone still thinks that the U.N. provides safe-haven to other than its own, then remember the massacre at Srebrenica. The bodies are still being discovered in the hills around Srebrenica 20 years after U.N. peacekeepers broke their promise and handed thousands of Muslims to the Serbs who first invented the term ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Dr. Abdullah Robin