{"id":185598,"date":"2016-01-29T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185598"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:46:07","slug":"eu-troops-abused-car-children-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185598","title":{"rendered":"EU troops abused CAR children -Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR).<\/p>\n

A number of girls aged between 14 and 16 have alleged they were raped by Georgian members of the EU’s operation Eufor, the UN says.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy said they were abused by French troops.<\/p>\n

The troops were sent to stem violence between Christian militias and largely Muslim rebels.<\/p>\n

The rebels seized power in March 2013 – in response, the militias took up arms against them.<\/p>\n

The abuse is alleged to have taken place near a camp for displaced people near Bangui Airport in 2014 but only came to light in recent weeks during interviews with a UN team.<\/p>\n

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said he was “extremely alarmed” at the continuing allegations against peacekeeping troops.<\/p>\n

Last December an independent panel criticised the UN’s handling of abuse allegations in the CAR, calling it “seriously flawed” and a “gross institutional failure”.<\/p>\n

It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.<\/p>\n

France sent 2,000 troops to to its former colony in 2013 and began handing over responsibility to UN peacekeepers last year.<\/p>\n

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Keeping the peace in CAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • A 10,000-strong UN force took over a peacekeeping mission in September 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • France has about 2,000 troops in its ex-colony, first deployed in December 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      Source: BBC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The UN says it has new allegations of child sex abuse by European troops in the Central African Republic (CAR). A number of girls aged between 14 and 16 have alleged they were raped by Georgian members of the EU’s operation Eufor, the UN says. Meanwhile a seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy said they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}