Uruguay willing to compensate alleged Haitian gang-raped victim

Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:19 UTC

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Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has apologised to his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state. Read full article

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Uruguayans, Argentineans, American or British (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Jensen) troops…….

All the same………….

Potential beasts in uniform that have to be kept on a very short leash by their democratic civilian governments.

Well done Uruguay………………….
Sep 08th, 2011 - 05:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Troneas
The problem is that military forces are trained for one thing and one thing only: to fight battles. They are not a police force - and this type of thing will happen time and again until the UN realises that it cannot count on the military for this job.
Sep 08th, 2011 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit87
Didn't see any rape in the video.
Sep 08th, 2011 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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