By Elijah Cohen
A new investigation into the disgusting behavior of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed twenty years of widespread sexual misconduct that destroyed thousands of lives.
Victims say they were trafficked, raped, impregnated, and abandoned without child support.
Study claims – UN peacekeepers from 12 countries ‘have fathered and abandoned thousands of children’ over past 20 years in Democratic Republic of Congo https://t.co/8X2vZKZ90t
— Mizz Ebony
(@mizz_ebony247) August 16, 2022
Since 1999, the US has deployed troops to the Congo, where they are currently serving in the “Monusco” UN mission. The new report was more comprehensive than the previous one, interviewing roughly 2,500 people, including women and girls who had been raped by the peacekeepers and the children who were the result of those crimes.
Over 1,000 respondents brought up the peacekeeper-fathered children in the study, even though the interviewers did not mention it first.
UN ‘peacekeepers’ raping children seems to be very common.
“Some of those deployed seem to be treating these missions as an opportunity for sex tourism and sexual crimes” https://t.co/7rYUTgsllt
— Prof Azeem Ibrahim OBE (@AzeemIbrahim) August 15, 2022
Many of the female survivors were under 18 years old at the time and said they were promised support if a sexual encounter resulted in pregnancy.