Speaking before journalists in Geneva, UN spokesman recalled that at a time when were these acts occur in civil war-ridden RCA chaos and thousands of internal refugees refuge at the airport in Bangui under the protection of French soldiers from other countries.
currently must wait for the results of the investigation conducted by the French authorities – said the spokesman. Quoted by Reuters news agency a source in the French judiciary said on Wednesday that it was provisionally established that it is an 14 soldiers; the identity of some of them has already been established.
French investigation lasts from last year, but the public found out about It is only in recent days, after an article in the British newspaper “The Guardian”. The newspaper wrote that a senior UN employee gave the prosecutor’s office in France, secret UN report on French soldiers with the emerging UN peacekeeping mission, which between December 2013 and June 2014 years sexually abused boys in the CAR at the center for internally displaced people in Bangi.
The report victims, of whom the youngest was nine years old, told that they were sexually abused in exchange for food and money.
In the past, several scandals erupted in connection with accusations that the United Nations did not take action on pedophile operating Szajek in the ranks of its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo and Bosnia. Also accused the organization that its soldiers committed sexual offenses in Haiti, Burundi and Liberia.
War between Christians and Muslims in the CAR it lasts from the end of 2012. The conflict degenerated into looting, religious massacres and retaliatory killings carried out by both parties.
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