Just one of a long list of atrocities committed by United Nations Blue Helmets in Africa and other developing countries. From the oddly titled BBC report Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’:

Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.

Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children.

After research in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, the charity said an international watchdog should be created to deal with the issue.

The UN has said it welcomes the report, which it will study closely.

Save the Children said the most shocking aspect of child sex abuse is that most of it goes unreported and unpunished, with children too scared to speak out.

A 13-year-old girl described to the BBC how 10 UN peacekeepers gang-raped her in a field near her Ivory Coast home, and left her bleeding, trembling and vomiting on the ground.

No action has been taken against the soldiers.

The report doesn’t say what country the Ivory Coast peacekeeping forces are from, but it’s safe to say that had they been Americans the BBC would have gleefully reported it. I like the way the BBC puts “abusing children” in quotes. It doesn’t seem like the headline is designed to cast doubt on the victims stories at all. Something tells me there are no BBC articles about Abu Ghraib where the word abuse is anywhere near a quotation mark.

Isn’t it time to pull out of the U.N.?

h/t Gateway Pundit