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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45359)	5/19/2004 12:40:40 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 793939

All I can say is WOW. These allegations are incredible. In Eritrea, the government recently accused the UN mission of, among other offences, pedophilia. In Cambodia, UN troops fueled an explosion of child prostitutes and AIDS. Amnesty International reports that the UN mission in Kosovo has presided over a massive expansion of the sex trade, with girls as young as 11 being lured from Moldova and Bulgaria to service international peacekeepers. In Bosnia, where the sex-slave trade barely existed before the UN showed up in 1995, there are now hundreds of brothels with underage girls living as captives. The 2002 Save the Children report on the UN's cover-up of the sex-for-food scandal in West Africa provides grim details of peacekeepers' demanding sexual favors from children as young as four in exchange for biscuits and cake powder. "What is particularly shocking and appalling is that those people who ought to be there protecting the local population have actually become perpetrators," said Steve Crawshaw, the director of Human Rights Watch. M

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45359)	5/19/2004 1:35:39 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

Amazing how Mark Steyn forgets to mention one crucial detail about the underage sex trade and slavery in Kosovo and Bosnia: most of the consumers are NATO troops stationed there (many of them Americans), who far outnumber the UN officials. Here is an Amnesty International report about the situation: news.bbc.co.uk Another interesting detail about the Kosovo sex trade is that the gangs that control it are our friends and allies, the Kosovo Liberation Army.