A former UN staff member revealed that international police officers were regular visitors to brothels
http://www.sina.com.cn June 15, 2001 19:09 Beijing Evening News
Recently, a member of the International Police Task Force who was fired from the United Nations disclosed to the outside world that the UN International Police Force (IPTF) officers deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina were supposed to perform their duties and set a model for society, but took the lead in illegally visiting brothels. After the event was announced, it attracted international attention.
Borkova was angered
Catherine Borkova was originally a senior police officer in Nebraska. Two years ago, she quit her job, joined the United Nations International Police Task Force, and was sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina to investigate the local underground prostitution industry.
As the work progressed, Borkova began to come into contact with some materials, and learned that some of her UN colleagues were actually frequent visitors of these women in prostitution, and some even got more involved. She has collected more and more information in this regard, and it has become even more chilling. In a report, she described the actions of some foreign military officers: creating fake documents for women who were trafficked in prostitution, assisting them to enter the country through border checkpoints, and whispering to the bosses of illegal clubs before police raids.
At the beginning of last year, Bolkova was demoted. In April of the same year, she was fired. The reason listed in the dismissal letter was that someone accused her of forging a working time card. Borkova was enraged. She said that the above did not want to know the truth of the matter at all. They would rather turn a deaf ear to the evidence and turn a blind eye.
Borkova's story is not an accident. David Lamb has been an investigator of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for the past two years, working in central Bosnia. He said that during his work, he and his colleagues regularly submitted evidence to their superiors that some international resident personnel had committed bad acts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they were warned to "don't investigate further."
Going to a brothel is at most dismissed
Relevant UN officials stated that most IPTF members have fulfilled their mission very well and set an example worthy of emulation. However, they also have to admit that more than 20 of the 2000 police forces have committed crimes ranging from accepting bribes to committing crimes. Dismissal for faults such as inappropriate sex.
US State Department spokesperson Charles Hunter acknowledged that "occasional disciplinary issues occur" among members of the American Police Task Force, but that things can usually be resolved "swiftly, reasonably and appropriately." Another senior U.S. official admitted that the U.S. has serious problems in the selection and training of police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, because the U.S. Department of State handed over this work to a private company in Texas. Ten thousand dollars in funding.
The international police stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina enjoy diplomatic immunity. For those international police who commit crimes, unless their government waives their immunity, the heaviest punishment the United Nations can give them is to send them back to the country.
The image of the international police:
In November last year, with the assistance of the IPTF, the Bosnia and Herzegovina police raided three nightclubs in a town in northern Bosnia and captured 33 women in prostitution, including a 14-year-old girl. The next day, the nightclub owner announced to the outside world that the IPTF had previously asked him for a protection fee of $10,000 but was rejected. The IPTF was so embarrassed that it launched the attack.
Prostitution is illegal in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina currently has more than 20,000 NATO peacekeeping forces and thousands of members of various international aid agencies and working groups. The prosperity of the prostitution industry may be related to this. According to statistics from the United Nations, 30% of the customers of various nightclubs and brothels are foreigners.
These prostitutes come from some Eastern European countries. They came to Bosnia and Herzegovina with the illusion of being a waitress or a babysitter, but then they were handed over to the brothel owner, their passports were confiscated, and they were forced to engage in sex transactions.
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