Rape in the CAR: soldiers from Chad and Guinea … – Le Point

Chadian soldiers and Equatorial Guinea are also accused by a UN report on sexual abuse of children Central Africa, where French soldiers are already in question, according to an NGO Thursday. These three Chadian soldiers and two Equatorial Guineans, told AFP the co-director of the American NGO AIDS-Free World, Paula Donovan, who presented the report and provided the British newspaper The Guardian.

There are three Chadian soldiers and two Equatorial Guinea, told AFP the co-director of the American NGO Aids-Free World, Paula Donovan, who presented the report and provided the British newspaper The Guardian. One of the children mentioned in this internal UN report “testified that he saw his friend being sodomized by two Chadian soldiers while a third kept watch,” said Ms. Donovan. Another child questioned by UN investigators reported seeing her boyfriend, aged 9 to 10 years, accompanied by two soldiers from Equatorial Guinea. “His friend made a blowjob and was sodomized by one of the soldiers while the second was on the watch, then the two soldiers exchanged places,” Ms Donovan said.

The French participated in the operation Sangaris

According to a French judicial source, fourteen French soldiers are involved in the case, but “very few” have been identified. Also according to Ms. Donovan, some of the children who testified give names of soldiers, some of the names they have heard in conversations between the attackers, and some information about those military functions qu’assuraient. “Most were able to provide detailed physical descriptions of the soldiers,” she has said.

At the material time, between December 2013 and June 2014, the French part of the transaction Sangaris and the UN Stabilization Mission in CAR (minusca) was not deployed. Chad and Equatorial Guinea were involved at the time in Misca, a pan-African force in CAR peacekeeping preceding the minusca.