The allegations follow a U.N. report
documenting the involvement of French
and African soldiers in the sexual abuse
of young children while on a
peacekeeping mission between
December 2013 and June 2014.
The U.N.’s peacekeeping force in Central
African Republic (MINUSCA) said on
Thursday it has begun a probe into
claims that one of its peacekeepers
sexually abused an underaged girl.
The allegations follow a U.N. report
documenting the involvement of French
and African soldiers in the sexual abuse
of young children while on a
peacekeeping mission between
December 2013 and June 2014.
“ The UN’s head of mission Babacar Gaye is
extremely concerned about these
allegations and immediately launched the
investigation process and informed the
government of the Central African
Republic,” MINUSCA said in a statement.
MINUSCA said that the abuse by the
peacekeeper allegedly occurred in the
country’s east and that measures had
immediately been put in place to protect
the victim.
The United Nations is already under fire
because of its slow response to reports of
the abuse by French and African
soldiers, which included claims children
were made to perform oral sex.
It only responded publicly after an
article appeared in the British
newspaper The Guardian in April.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said
this week an external independent
review would be set up on its handling
of the allegations. France has opened its
own probe and says it has identified
some of its soldiers suspected of
involvement.
Violence erupted in the former French
colony in 2013 after mostly Muslim
Seleka rebels seized power and then
went on a looting and killing spree,
prompting reprisal attacks from militia
drawn from the Christian majority.
French soldiers and a 10,000-strong U.N.
mission have helped restore order and
militias have now agreed to a
preliminary disarmament deal, although
hundreds of thousands of people remain
displaced.
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