FRENCH SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF RAPING CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS NINE YEARS OLD IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

[Ceylal]

Central African Republic: a UN official suspended for having leaked a report accusing French soldiers of rape, according to the "Guardian"

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  Because of "UN failure" to respond to these sexual abuses, the aid worker would have referred the case to the authorities. And it is particularly explosive. According to this, children-including one aged nine years- have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of French soldiers between December 2013 and June 2014. Just after the revelations of the Guardian , the Ministry of Justice confirmed that the floor of Paris opened in July a preliminary investigation into sexual abuse in Central Africa by French soldiers.These investigations were launched after transmission to the Paris prosecutor by the Ministry of Defence of a United Nations working paper, AFP said.
  
  Sexual acts against food
  
  The events occurred in the M'Poko camp at Bangui airport, the country's capital.Reportedly the Guardian was able to consult, boys accusing French soldiers of abusing them sexually in exchange for money or food. It was after rumors that the survey was commissioned by the Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights.
  
  On 5 December 2013, France launched the operation "Sangaris" to help the Central African Republic to maintain peace in the country in the grip of a civil war between the Christian and Muslim communities. The French army was then sent 2,000 men there. The soldiers involved in the report were particularly deployed in the UN force Minsuca, says the Guardian .
  
  Contacted by HuffPost's , the Ministry of Defense did not comment these claims at first. In a press release, he then announced that would apply the "strongest sanctions" if the sexual abuse of French soldiers "had proved". In addition, "the Minister of Defence has taken and will take all necessary measures to enable the establishment of the truth", the statement pointing a possible "intolerable attack on the values of the soldier."
  
  On Thursday morning, 30 April, the Secretary of State in charge of Family, Laurence Rossignol, felt that these soldiers had committed "a double crime," if the child rape charges against them were based. "If the facts are true, these facts would be extremely serious," said Laurence Rossignol on Radio Classique and LCI. For his part, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Europe 1 that "if the facts are proven, sanctions will be of great severity."
  
  Swedish national, Anders Kompass lives in Geneva and was (until his suspension occurred last week) Director of field operations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo below:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[rockstar08]

@Gabriel92 buddy ?

 

[Indus Falcon]

Extremely disgusting, shocking and sad!!!

 

[Gabriel92]

Lol,it is the third time in 1 day that the same thread is open.
There's an investigation ongoing,and if it is true then (which is just allegations and accusations for now),those who did that will be punished.
That's all.

@Gabriel92 buddy ?

 

[rockstar08]

Lol,it is the third time in 1 day that the same thread is open.
There's an investigation ongoing,and if it is true then (which is just allegations and accusations for now),those who did that will be punished.
That's all.

well it become a tradition on PDF to have multiple thread on one topic so i guess its ok
and for investigation part , its good and if french Authorities punish those who are involved it will have good impact on African people ..

 

[Indus Falcon]

France Investigates Accusations that Soldiers Raped Children
Associated Press | Apr 30, 2015 | by Angela Charlton

PARIS — French prosecutors and military authorities are investigating accusations that French soldiers in Central African Republic sexually abused children they were sent to protect.

The French probes follow an initial United Nations investigation into the allegations a year ago — all of which were kept secret until a report in the Guardian newspaper Wednesday pushed officials to publicly acknowledge them.

A U.N. worker leaked information about the U.N. investigation to French authorities last year, the U.N. Secretary-General's office said in a statement. That worker, identified by the Swedish government as Swede Anders Kompass, has been suspended and is now under internal investigation.

Central African Republic has seen unprecedented violence between Christians and Muslims since late 2013. At least 5,000 people have been killed, and about 1 million are displaced internally or have fled the country. France sent troops in late 2013 and the U.N. set up a 12,000-strong peacekeeping force in September last year.

In spring 2014, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the country's capital, Bangui, carried out a probe prompted by "serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of children by French military personnel," the U.N. Secretary-General's office said Wednesday.

The alleged abuse took place before the U.N. force took over. The U.N. investigation has now been passed on to French authorities, said a spokesman for the U.N. human rights office in Geneva, Rupert Colville.

The French government was informed of the accusations in late July 2014, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. Military authorities and the Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation and investigators went to Central African Republic in August.

Central African children told UNICEF and other U.N. officials in Central African Republic of sexual assaults by French soldiers around the M'Poko airport between December 2013 and June 2014, the French Defense Ministry said.

About 16 French soldiers were accused of abusing 10 boys, between eight and 15 years old, according to Paula Donovan of activist group AIDS-Free World. Some children were given small meals in exchange, she said. Donovan, whose group is investigating abuses by peacekeepers, says she has seen internal U.N. documents about the initial probe into the Central African allegations.

She told The Associated Press that U.N. officials heard testimony from the first boy May 5, followed by others over several weeks until the last testimony June 24.

It is unclear where the children are now, or the alleged perpetrators.

If the accusations are proven true, the French Defense Ministry said it would ensure "the strictest sanctions against those responsible for what would be an intolerable attack on the values of a soldier."

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, was the author of a lengthy report on preventing sexual exploitation by peacekeepers that the global body commissioned a decade ago after a scandal involving U.N. troops in Congo.

Known as the Zeid Report, it recommended among other things that allegations of abuse be followed by a professional investigation and that U.N. member states should pledge to prosecute their soldiers as if the crime had been committed in their own country.

The allegations are especially damning for France, which sees itself as a model of human rights, and has thousands of troops around former colonies in Africa sent to protect civilian populations in conflict zones.

French President Francois Hollande and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met in Paris on Wednesday night but refused to take questions from reporters afterward and didn't say anything about the alleged abuse in a brief public statement.

The U.N. Secretary-General's office said that the leak of the internal documents did not constitute "whistleblowing" but was a "serious breach of protocol."

"Any issue of sex abuse is a serious issue," the deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, Farhan Haq, told reporters Wednesday in New York. "At the same time, there are concerns we have about the protection of witnesses and victims."

Sweden's government said it was "worrisome" if Kompass was suspended for sharing information about sexual abuse of children on an international mission. Anders Ronquist, legal chief of Sweden's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement, "The U.N. must have zero tolerance toward sexual abuse of children and ensure that suspicions of such abuse are investigated."

--Cara Anna at the United Nations, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Greg Keller in Paris and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report.

France Investigates Accusations that Soldiers Raped Children | Military.com

 

[Ceylal]

Lol,it is the third time in 1 day that the same thread is open.
There's an investigation ongoing,and if it is true then (which is just allegations and accusations for now),those who did that will be punished.
That's all.

You and your Moroccan friends will dispute the gold medal

 

[Ceonwulf]

So French soldiers surrender and rape children? Pfft, they are nearly as bad as Indians... nearly.

 

[Ceylal]

Your soldiers (and generals) slaughtered 200.000 of your fellow,you should hide yourself.

Non they didn't, it is Jospin friends that did the slaughtering and French courts debunked the involvement of the ANP.
It is Jospin that signed a cooperation contract with the FIS thinking like a, French that has never won a war, how to re-enter in Algeria by the big door...Clinton was with him too..and both got screwed...Thanks to the Sauds and their 9/11.

We will seek psychologic help from you guys.

coming from a guy who's country became the majordome of the Obama and Nathanyahu.. Which psych you are going to send us, Ms honey bobo or Ms Yael? because all the Marguerites and Danielle have disappeared since magpie ran France to the ground, and Mr Allouette kept going on the same track..

 

[Gabriel92]

Non they didn't, it is Jospin friends that did the slaughtering and French courts debunked the involvement of the ANP.
It is Jospin that signed a cooperation contract with the FIS thinking like a, French that has never won a war, how to re-enter in Algeria by the big door...Clinton was with him too..and both got screwed...Thanks to the Sauds and their 9/11.

The FIS won the elections if you want it or not,they won,the people have chosen them,but your generals cancelled them by a military coup,then punished the population,by manipulating the groups,why would the "terrorists" kill innocent civilians who have voted for them ?
The regime has cancelled democratic elections,because they knew it was the end of the FLN,the end of those generals that are stealing the country...
You guys can't accpt the democracy... erg... the FLN can't.
Lol,the French president was welcomed like a "God" in Algeria,so that means that he entered algeria by the big door ?

I forgot this one

 

[Hussein]

so this is confirmed that soldiers did it .
as i heard from military officer the recruitment level decreased in France and many people with mental problems would enter the army . recruitment should include strong psychological tests.

Your soldiers (and generals) slaughtered 200.000 of your fellow,you should hide yourself.

don't you have any dignity ?
remember France killed millions of Algerians ?
so better shut up on these matters

 

[Gabriel92]

so this is confirmed that soldiers did it .
as i heard from military officer the recruitment level decreased in France and many people with mental problems would enter the army . recruitment should include strong psychological tests.

Yes the level has decreased to recruit more soldiers,but you think that the first guy with mental problems will be recruited ?? lol.
Also,are there any proofs that soldiers raped children ? It is easy to go at UN and say "they raped me",any medical test or whatsoever ?
Accusations and allegations,but no proof. As i said,wouldn't be suprised if it's fake since many want to see our troops out of CAR and just made this story to coerce France to remove its troops.
BUT,if it is true,then those who did that will be punished,nothing else.
(Quand on à faire à une population touchée à plus de 50% par le Sida ,il faudrait être complètement shooté/défoncé ,pour risquer aussi bêtement sa peau …Sans parler des problèmes militaires et civils à la clef !)
(Oui d'accord,L’Armée n’est pas un sanctuaire composé de saints,mais ce genre d’affaires est rarissime,dans la mesure ou elle aurait existé ! )
Anyway,there's an investigation ongoing,wait and see.

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Factuellement, il y a eu de -rares- déviances de militaires français, par le passé : un braquage de banque en Côte d'Ivoire façon Morfalous, une neutralisation express par sac... mais aussi, des accusations calomnieuses portées sur un officier des forces spéciales en Afrique et qui s'étaient avérées sans fondement. L'explication était à chercher... en Suède et pas dans les actions de cet officier brillant qui a poursuivi sa carrière. Même si sept ans après, et comme s'il n'avait pas été lavé de ces soupçons, cette fausse polémique reste toujours lisible sur le net.

Le mamouth: Des soupçons en RCA mais pas de preuves produites

don't you have any dignity ?
remember France killed millions of Algerians ?
so better shut up on these matters

Millions is the number given by the FLN,which is very exagerated.

 

[Hussein]

yes it is right their formation and level of French army is excellent.
good news they got 3 billions increase budget ... after so many years they were getting less and less...

 

[Gabriel92]

yes it is right their formation and level of French army is excellent.
good news they got 3 billions increase budget ... after so many years they were getting less and less...

Because they just realized that the army is useful.

 

[TheNoob]

Hardly believable, I mean... Arent french supposed to be racist against dark skinned people? e.e