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I’m going to track down the report and try to read it tonight, it’s disturbing the troops from a western country were molesting people, if it’s true.
Are you kidding me? Soldiers throughout history have molested people and raped people and then some. You went to a war once right?
We never had a molestation case I’m y whole brigade. Never a rape of a Iraqi local… it’s not exactly known even by me completely why, cause my unit had rapists and pedopholes arrested prior to deployment, but as far as I’ve seen, never any hint. I have been asked by a French “philosopher” about a rape that happened southeast of our position, but that was another brigade, and the Iraqis had the confidence and awareness to approach a checkpoint down the road to report it, feeling confident the military would react. We had a remarkably low rate of rape/molestation charges.
I’m finding evidence that French and South African troops are raping, or bribing people for sex for basic commodities of survival, it disturbs me.
The UN hasn’t released the 100 page report, but I’ve found a few reports, including each rape alliagation per UN operation, if it panned out or was unsubstantiated. I’m gonna go through each case, seeing if a pattern emerges.
You can’t just write off “rape happens”, if one military unit is able to avoid raping, it means all of them can. I’m not interested in the status quo, but rather figuring out a method that reduces the rates, to making it a rarity almost unheard of. I don’t think that’s unachievable, and a internet forum is a good place to start. Better philosophers can pick up from where I start and build better theories. I’m not turning away from this. Its a UN force, can very well someday become “Earth Army”, I don’t want it raping people at random every time a force is deployed, with everyone just shrugging their shoulders business as usual.
Little things, like abusing animals, or your children or spouses, willingness to rape, is a strong suggestant a military unit containing such men doesn’t have it’s act together, and can only cause animosity and distrust in any deployment. Peacekeepers are suppose to preserve the peace, not cause civil strife.
For all the mistakes my unit made, seriously, no rapes. Us really didn’t engadge much in sex overseas, I know more cases of bizarre marriages between US troops and Iraqi Women (honestly?) than cases of soldiers raping. Its not just a US oriented mystification, many internationally have noted this, including traditional enemies.
They really don’t make this easy, the charts they offer, decoding the acronyms, but I found this rather unaspiring picture of a UN Fort in the D.R. Congo. Really, why bother manning that tower? That barb wire on that vertucal raising gate pole does absolutely nothing, other than spread tetanus and cause people to need stitches. Thats our wire to boot, US made. Rusts rather fast.
The 100 page report isn’t available, but I did find a few PDFs, the chart I’m going off of is from “Updated Information on all allegations, as reported to the office of Internal Oversight Services between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2013, Involving personnel in field missions supported by the Department of Field Support- as at 31 December 2014”
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It needs to be noted, it lists all cases it has knowledge of, be it later found substantiated or not. It doesn’t go into much detail, and doesn’t list which nations troops or units did the supposed raping or molesting, but does give indication of what kind of crime supposedly occurred. I never heard of a few of these missions, and short of being a fanatical follower of the UN, your not going to know what they mean, so I tried to create a alphabetical list. I’m doing this off my phone, so I can’t do Excel. I’ll do more research to figure out which troops and units did it, and crime statistics back in their home region, as well as average in theater, views on sex in both societies, etc. I’m not going to investigate single, very random cases… while any rape is important, basic triage is needed to focus on the mist grotesque large scale patterns so we can start formulating a basic response in debate here, or for any passing viewer. If your planning on using this in a official work, double check the PDF link I provided above, it is less prone to mistakes, and gives additional statistics.
From 2010 to 2013, links to missions mentioned in the text:
BINUB
United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ … in_Burundi
2010: 1
MINURCAT
United Nations Missions in the Central African Republic and Chad
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missi … ound.shtml
2010: 4
MINURSTAH
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minustah/
2010: 12
2011: 18
2012: 9
2013: 23
MINUSMA
United Nations Multidimensional
Integrated Stabilization Mission in MalI
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minusma/
2013: 5
MONUC
United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/monuc/
2010: 31
MONUSCO
United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
monusco.unmissions.org
2010: 13
2011: 35
2012: 27
2013: 26
UNAMA
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
unama.unmissions.org
2012: 1
UNAMID
African Union/United Nations
Hybrid operation in Darfur
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unamid/
2011: 4
2013: 1
UNAMIL
United Nations Mission to Liberia
unmil.unmissions.org
2010: 20
2011: 12
2012: 11
2013: 7
UNFICYP
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unficyp/
2013: 1
UNMIL
UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN LIBERIA
unmil.unmissions.org
2011: 12
2012: 11
2013: 7
UNMIS
United Nations Mission to Sudan
unmis.unmissions.org
2010: 12
2011: 8
UNMISS
United Nations Mission in the
Republic of South Sudan
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unmiss/
2011: 1
2012: 9
2013: 6
UNRSCE2
I dunno…
2012- 1
UNMIT
United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/unmit/
2010: 3
2011: 1
2012: 2
UNMOGIP
United Nations Military Observer Group In India and Pakistan
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unmogip/
2010: 1
UNOCI
United Nations Operations In Cote d’Ivoire
un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unoci/
2010: 8
2011: 3
2012: 6
2013: 4
Five trouble spots pop up, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, Southern/South Sudan, and The Ivory Coast.
The national make up of the units responsible is unknown.
In most cases, the rape allegations was single male on single female, but I saw statistics that suggested much rarer incident of a group of men raping a female, and of a individual raping many. Most appeared adult, but many minors were listed as well.
How well can I substantiate these statistics? I can’t, I haven’t the slightest clue how the United Nations qualifies what is and isn’t a sex act, abuse, exploitation, etc. I’m American, so approach this from my national biases. Now is the nasty part of dredging up details from old news stories.
Just for your own protection, under no circumstances, should you be a black woman in Haiti or Africa… troops appear to have a oversexualized, low value for your well being, and it’s unwise to be around then. I recommend instead becoming wealthy white male living in Europe and Canada instead, much lower risk of rape.
That was a very dark humor joke… wow, I felt that.glaring, cold stare … okay, moving on to the news stories related to the statistics…
In Monoc/Monusco… honestly, it’s a mess, here is a 2008 map:
I’m lucky I sort of follow African Great Lake Region conflicts and news, but it’s little more than once a month. You can have multiple factions in a given city at war with one another in the city, and allied outside of it. A lot of interstate conflict.
Most of the yearly allegations targeted Indian Army personnel. Prostitution is very common in India, so I have little doubt a little nooki for treats was going on.
I am thankful India sent so many troops, to such a hellhole. Big problem is, the Congolese seemed on the whole to really dislike the Pakistani and then Indian units, and tried some cunning political schemes, which seem rather absurd to me, of doing, such as allying with Rwanda… I find these conspiracy theories common in the news in English in the region thinking somehow Obama is for it against Rwanda… they are a highly fractured population, more or less stuck in the national borders Belgium gave them. I have no doubt many of the rape and non-rape allegations are false.
This being said… it’s India, and they undoubtedly did have sex with the locals.
What makes it worst, the area is so impoverished, many people probably elicited and sought out troops, for their Sexual services. Undoubtedly, absurdly cheap… such as for food items.
If it was the US, we would just mandate movements outside of post in no less than three man teams. Problem is, a prostitute can easily suck three guys off quick… so that might not work if they are aggressive prostitutes.
My recommendation is, completely cut all troop allowance for money, save held by a commander of a troop for emergencies (such as food or movies, or paying a local who found your missing UAV or rifle, and wants payment in the spot). The money can’t ever go cash, directly into the troops hands. Its tokens for select stores with agreements with the camo’s commander, redeemable by cash, or not at all. You can’t give troops anything of value to bargain with.
Likewise with food. When going out on missions your expecting combat, search and rescue… pack rations… you gotta, can’t help that. But if your just guarding aid workers, and it’s a rotating shift, rely on cooks delivering hot food, instead of tradable rations a prostitute might want in exchange for a sex act.
Likewise, put troops on team punishments. If one soldier is found having engaged with a prostitutes, they all get punished (don’t execute them all, or jail them). They guy who actually did the act, full punishment. His team mates, demotuins and extra duties for failing to keep a eye on him. Commander is to be disciplined too. Battalion commanders and above loose a fraction of their pay for each case. Not too painful if your a Battalion Commander, but if your the division commander, a few rapes per year can seriously hurt your paycheck and make you take unit discipline more seriously. You’ll make certain your lower commanders want nothing to do with it, and the grunts on the ground likewise want nothing to do with it.
This strategy should be mixed with monthly classes, including a big one prior to deployment, about diplomatic failures past scandals have caused, how AIDS is easily passed by prostitutes to troops (lots of research on that), how troops easily switch from Prostitution to Rape once they devalue local women, and how they can and will report you, including the application of punishments.
Thats my solution for the bulk of it, regarding the Congo.