UN peacekeepers patronized a Bosnian rape camp and its captors

Evidence

In the summer of 1992, UN peacekeepers under the command of Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie frequented the rape camp known as Sonja’s Kon-Tiki, in the town of Vogosca near Sarajevo. Even after they learned that the women at the Kon-Tiki were Muslim captives held against their will, abused, and sometimes killed, UN peacekeepers continued to take advantage of the women there and to fraternize with their Serb nationalist captors. Only 150 yards away from Sonja’s, scores of Muslim men were being held in inhuman conditions, but the peacekeepers took no notice. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 343

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The peacekeepers’ twofold betrayal — ignoring the men’s prison while exploiting the women — collapses any consistent moral logic of the mission; small acts of decorum toward corpses, per the reader’s own framing, matter more than practical logic.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone researching UN mission failures or peacekeeping ethics in the 90s Balkans—this incident (especially the 150-yard detail) is not widely known.

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