A UN report released Wednesday accused of rape on minors fifteen French soldiers. Several investigations are underway.
Since Wednesday, the French army, accustomed to interventions in Africa, faces a scandal with potentially devastating effects Following accusations of child soldiers who raped them during the operation Sangaris 2014 Central . These accusations were revealed on the same day by the British daily The Guardian , in which the co-director of the American NGO Aids-Free World, Paula Donovan, communicated an internal UN report which it had access.
“If some soldiers behaved badly, I will be ruthless” , reacted Thursday President Francois Hollande , while the Ministry of Defence and the army on the defensive, have made many statements to highlight want nothing to hide.
The Facts. The detailed testimonies of children, contained in a UN report cover a period from December 2013 to June 2014 and justified the opening of a preliminary investigation in July 2014 in Paris remained secret until to Wednesday.
On Thursday, a French judicial source said fourteen French soldiers were implicated and perhaps three were identified by the investigation still ongoing. A dozen children from 9 to 15 years say that in exchange for food or under threat, the French soldiers abused them sexually. These acts allegedly committed in a sentry box near the entrance M’Poko airport (Bangui).
According to the American NGO Aids-Free World, three soldiers from Chad and two Equatorial Guinea are also accused in a UN report of sexual abuse of children in CAR. Other sources also refer to rapes committed by Georgian soldiers aggregated to the local UN peacekeeping force.
Survey. It is in July 2014 that the French Ministry of Defence receives a report prepared by OHCHR staff in human rights, the UN positioned in Central Africa, where the French army is deployed as part of the Sangaris operation, intended to prevent a civil war. The minister’s office, Jean-Yves Le Drian ensures have taken since “all necessary measures to enable the establishment of the truth,” committing “zero indulgence” .
Members of the provost gendarmerie, composed of military and judicial powers have placed under the control of the prosecutor of Paris, went first in August 2014 in Central Africa in order to begin their investigation. They have since returned to continue. In Bangui, the prosecutor regretted not having been informed of the case “extremely serious” and the opening of investigations.
Frame of UN, Anders Kompass , Paris has sent the report entitled Sexual abuse of children by international forces . He did so in response to what he considered to be his administration’s inaction on this issue. He has since been suspended from duty and is the subject of an internal investigation.
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“France is in a dreadful mess”
Is the Sangaris operation compromised? For Antoine Glaser , Africa specialist, the consequences of this case will be very embarrassing heavy.
“France wants to hand, it does not appear in the front line in the Central African conflict and then finally she finds herself in a terrible case. This clearly discredits the French presence there, “says the journalist.
” In Central Africa, France is extremely isolated. With a history like this, the European partners will be saying: We have reason not to get involved in the French quagmire. France is home to Africa believes it underestimated what was happening in this country, in part because it is a country she ruled with proconsuls for years and it has not really understood that this country was dormant for ten years, “says the expert to which the cards of the black continent have changed hands for a while now. A Françafrique the last half of the twentieth century succeeded the “Africafrance” says Glaser for which power relations have largely reversed. “Today the world is antechamber in capitals of the continent. “
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All executioners power
Doctor and military psychiatrist, Patrick Clervoy has especially served in CAR before leaving the institution recently to devote to research. In an essay titled “The Lucifer effect, ordinary torturers” and published two years ago, the physician analyzes the light of experience which the moral unscrewing the troops in difficult operations can sometimes yield.
the psychiatrist, every individual is a potential torturer and dikes that hold us back, education, authority, previously admitted collective rules can break under the influence of a negative element in a context of pressure outside the norm. Just such an individual leader, having an influence over the rest of the group and passing the act to tilt around him.
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