If the investigation was done by the UN and they themselves found nothing, I would take that with a pinch of salt. Just like the bullshit artiste Kofi Anan, whose own son, Kojo was involved in corrupt practises like the U.N. Iraqi Oil for Food scandal. Further, when the scandal reached up to Secretary General Kofi Anan, involving his son Kojo, there was no mechanism in place to remove him from office.
Most UN Troops, from my mixing around with them are there for the money, maybe many would disagre with me, for the cheap sex too. Especially so, peacekeepers from Africa, Pakistan and of course the Middle East.
In Africa sex is casual, found out about that in Kenya, I would not so much blame them, I am not preaching here nor moralising. The loneliness and the boredom might have gotten to them. I also did mix around with troops from Nigeria and Zimbabwe. For the Middle Easterners, it is like they are out of a zoo, they taste freedom, after all most of them feel sexually deprived in their home countries. Even the pigging on alcholic drinks, the Saudis (soldiers) would stand in the hot blistering sun and swig cans and cans of beer, surprise, surprise buying the non kosher beer (Maccabees) from an Israeli PX, with their big pot bellies, hanging out. I am not saying that we Malaysians were saints either.
What am I blabbering about? The issue about UN Peace Keeping Forces that really takes the cake is about the Jordanian Troops. You would want to laugh until you double over. Remember Timor Leste, it was just too scandalous. If I was Jordanian soldier I would never be able to live it down. I will make sure that those scumbags don't, by blogging about it from time to time.
Jordanian UN Peacekeeper Sex Scandal Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:03:19 pm PST - This is one of the more disgusting scandals currently plaguing the United Nations, but by no means the only one: Hushed rape of Timor. It caused outrage among East Timorese and Australian troops sent to protect them, raised tensions among UN peacekeepers to a deadly new level and caused senior UN staff to resign in disgust. The deployment of Jordanian peacekeepers to East Timor was probably one of the most contentious UN decisions to follow the bloody independence ballot. It was eclipsed only by the cover-up and inaction that followed when the world body learned of their involvement in a series of horrific sex crimes involving children living in the war-battered Oecussi enclave.
Children were not the only victims - in early 2001, two Jordanians were evacuated home with injured penises after attempting sexual intercourse with goats. The UN mission in East Timor led by Sergio Vieira de Mello (who was later killed in Baghdad) did its best to keep the matter hushed up. The UN military command at the time was only too happy to oblige.
Diggers drew guns in sex abuse clash By Mark Dodd March 21, 2005 From: AUSTRALIAN soldiers drew arms to protect themselves from Jordanian peacekeepers after a Digger blew the whistle on other Jordanian soldiers' sexual abuse of East Timorese boys. Corporal Andrew Wratten had to be evacuated and Australian commandos sent to protect Diggers in Oecussi, an East Timorese province in Indonesian West Timor, after he told the UN of the pedophilia that occurred in May 2001.
The Australians drew their Steyr assault rifles after being confronted by Jordanians armed with M-16s, in an escalation of verbal threats triggered by the betrayal of Corporal Wratten by a Jordanian officer in the Dili headquarters of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor. Corporal Wratten, who was working at a fuel dump in the enclave, was told by a group of children that Jordanian soldiers had offered food and money in exchange for oral sex and intercourse.
The allegations involved East Timorese minors, all boys, the youngest of them just 12years old. "Wratten informed PKF (peacekeeping force) that he had been receiving complaints from local children about Jorbatt (Jordan Battalion) abuse," said a senior UN official who was based in Oecussi at the time. "A Jordanian officer in HQ informed Jorbatt that he had ratted on them. Wratten and his guys manning the helo (helicopter) refuelling pad in Oecussi town started getting threatened.
"There was one occasion where Aussie Steyrs were pointed at Jorbatt and Jorbatt M-16s pointed at Aussies." A secret report into the abuse, obtained by The Australian, led to the expulsion of two Jordanian peacekeepers after an investigation ordered by then UNTAET chief, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, in July 2001. East Timorese human rights workers have confirmed the story. However, retired Australian major-general Roger Powell, the deputy UN force commander at the time, did not return The Australian's calls.
"As far as I understand, De Mello was very sensitive at the time to the harm such reports would have on the reputation of UNTAET, PKF - and by default himself," said one Western security analyst, based in East Timor in 2001. Jordan's key role in Middle East peace negotiations added extra sensitivity. In July 2001, a UN police specialist child interview team flew to Oecussi and spoke to 10 witnesses, including seven minors and three adults. "The unacceptable sexual conduct alleged was that a minor had sperm around his mouth," the resulting report says.
The board of inquiry found in its report that Jordanian troops regularly offered food and money in exchange for sexual favours from women and boys, including the procuring of prostitutes from across the border in West Timor.
It found it was highly probable that widespread sexual misconduct had occurred after the Jordanians took over from the highly regarded Australian paratroop battalion in early 2000.
So people, lock up your goats and kids, not necessarily in that order when Jordanian Troops are around. Ha,ha, hah.
