Peacekeeper Roulette

Aussie peacekeepers forced to draw arms to protect against Jordanian peacekeepers who were being accused of sexual misconduct in East Timor. Peacekeepers have now been accused of sexual misconduct in Sudan, Congo, Haiti, Kosovo, and East Timor. That would be five major deployments of peacekeepers, but no one at the UN seems to be the least amount concerned about this staggering display of illegal behavior. There have been no internal investigations, no firings, and no changes in how peacekeepers are trained to avoid these situations, which would suggest that the UN Secretariat and the member nations don't see anything wrong with sexual misconduct among the peacekeepers.

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. . . .

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 12 years old.

Yet another peacekeeping operation infused with sexual misconduct on the part of peacekeepers. Methinks that the UN has flunked the global test for sexual conduct.

Here are the questions:
1) Is sexual contact between peacekeepers and refugees permissible? Y/N
2) Is forced sexual contact between peacekeepers and refugees permissible? Y/N

If you answered No to both questions, you would pass the test. Apparently, the UN has yet to rule on these simple questions because their peacekeepers continue to operate under the assumption that sexual contact with refugees is permissible.