COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The general sat on a plastic lawn chair in the garden of his mother's home, the scent of tropical blooms filling the air as he talked about the alleged rape and sodomy of a Haitian teenager by a Sri Lankan peacekeeper. [...] Sri Lanka has never prosecuted a single soldier for sexual assault or sexual misconduct while serving in a peacekeeping mission abroad, the AP found. The alleged abuses committed by its troops abroad stem from a culture of impunity that arose during Sri Lanka's civil war and has seeped into its peacekeeping missions. The government has consistently refused calls for independent investigations into its generation-long civil war, marked by widespread reports of rape camps, torture, mass killings and other alleged war crimes by its troops. In future deployments, Sri Lanka will provide U.N.
Un Peacekeepers: How A Haiti Child Sex Ring Was Whitewashed
By KATY DAIGLE and PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Fri, 05/26/2017 - 10:38pm
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