UN peacekeepers fraternized with and patronized Serb-run rape camps.

Evidence

See Roy Gutman, “Witnesses Claim UN Forces Visited SerbRun Brothel,” New York Newsday, i November 1993. Branislav Vlaco, the Bosnian Serb commander of the camp from May to November, confirmed that UN peacekeepers from various nations frequented Sonja’s, but claimed the women there were not captives, but rather “women of low morals.” Gutman’s account of the captivity of the women at the camp, the gang rapes in which UN personnel took part, and the fraternization of UN personnel with those running the camp are based on the testimony of nine Muslim men from the area who had been held in the bunker and three Muslim women who had been held at Sonja’s, two of whom had been raped. The UN ultimately was forced to investigate and a number of UN peacekeepers were disciplined, but the UN refuses to make public its report on the incident. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 667

Categorization

• QUESTION: The UN still refuses to release its internal report on peacekeeper involvement at the rape camp — worth chasing how this has been handled since 1993.

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