So is this Kofi, but from appearences, it has received full UN sponsorship:
Kalemie, Democratic Republic of Congo – The United Nations truck to the biggest brothel in Kalemie departs every Saturday night at “21 hundred hours”, as they say in the military. And soldiers they are, including South Africans, the men who descend from the white truck with official UN logos.
They then enter “Mon Jardin”, an ostensible discotheque, but the real purpose of which is revealed by a half-naked woman on a huge wall painting. Her one hand fondles a breast while the other points to a curtain, barely hiding the courtyard behind which a number of small rooms are available for short-term lease. “Three dollar for une moment”, says the receptionist in half English, half French.
Up to 45 UN soldiers, mainly Uruguayans, quickly link up with the available girls, some as young as 14 years. The whole operation is supposed to be over at “0100 hours”. The weekly event is monitored by uniformed colleagues in an attempt to ensure that everything happens “in an orderly way”, says a spokesperson for the UN force, Monuc.
Let’s be perfectly clear. This isn’t some one of drunken escapade. It’s a “weekly event,” and monitored by uniformed colleagues in an attempt to ensure that everything happens “in an orderly way.” In the UN’s lexicon “orderly way” must not only mean sex, but sex with children.
Earlier this year, other UN soldiers in the town of Bunia were caught organising child prostitution [A story I noted in May – ed]. Others were buying sex for food from young rape victims in a camp for internally displaced people. A report about the scandal, allegedly featuring several South Africans, was scheduled for release in August but is still not out.
A report which will be released about the time the poles reverse, and Australia becomes the “land up there.”
After the outcry in Bunia, the UN force in Kalemie has asked the owner of Mon Jardin to make sure that none of his girls are under 18.
So I guess the UN is advocating prostitution for those over 18, but not under. The local UN representive seems to agree with my assessment:
Amini Ali Moumin, head of Monuc in Kalemie, says; “We don’t allow people to go to a brothel. But we can’t tell them not to go dance. If they then go through a back door, what can we do?” he asked, apparently referring to Mon Jardin.
Moumin would only be concerned, if the UN made prostitutes of girls who would otherwise not have been so inclined.
“If we enticed people because of financial benefits, it would be wrong,” he tells me.
In this moral degenerates mind the thought of placing a UN, or trusted local authority to guard the “back door” isn’t an option, and because they are not luring these girls with financial rewards, (They are just run-of-the-mill street whores I guess) it’s OK.
The depths to which this organization has sunk is beyond comprehension. As noted this story has been around since May and nothing has changed. This added to other sex crimes by UN personnel and the UN sponsored disaster in Kosovo it’s long past time to cut the UN loose. Hang a “condemned for public health reasons” sign on the front door, fumigate the place to ensure all the bureaucratic roaches are dead, and lease the building out.
Cross posted @ Political Puzzle.
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