UN Peacekeepers Leaving Trail of Bastard Children All Around the World

What exactly do people expect is going to happen when you send a bunch of “white saviors” around the world?

Obviously, saviors are very high status. Especially when they are bringing in technologies that look like magical powers to the natives.

Would you imagine that the local women would not be clamoring to have sex with them? Who would imagine that?

I’m certain the primitives are happy with their bastard children. It’s not really clear who the victim is here, or why there is even a reason to publicly discuss something that should really be a private matter between the individuals involved.

CNN:

When Pauline Philippe found out she was pregnant with twins, she felt a flash of happiness. Then she burst into tears in front of the ultrasound technician.

“Why are you crying?” she remembers him asking. Trying to cheer her up, he added: “You’re having twins, Preval and Aristide!” — referring to two former Haitian presidents.

Haiti at the time was still badly shaken by a deadly earthquake that struck the capital Port-au-Prince two years prior in 2010, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The disaster spurred a massive influx of relief workers and aid groups, including a contingent of United Nations peacekeepers who brought a deadly cholera epidemic with them to the small Caribbean nation, resulting in another nearly 10,000 deaths.

The man who fathered Philippe’s twins was part of the international assistance effort, a UN policeman on temporary assignment in Port-au-Prince. Married with a family back home in Niger, she says, he did not stick around.

“I thought about everything that could happen,” Phillippe told CNN. “I called the father and told him I was pregnant with twins. He said, ‘How can that be? From me? I’m going to leave the country, you’ll have bastards. You can’t raise kids without a father.”

But in November 2012, the then-26-year-old gave birth to a girl and boy. Their father left the country two months later.

Philippe is one of untold numbers of women and girls around the world raising children fathered by UN peacekeepers and staffers. From 2010 to February of this year, the UN has recorded 463 paternity claims against its personnel, of which 55 have been verified. In 298 cases, action remains “pending.” Those are only the people who have come forward.

Largely abandoned by the fathers, these mothers are trying to raise children in some of the most difficult conditions in the world — in the wake of natural disasters, violent and ethnic conflict, or in refugee camps — and often face harsh social stigma.

But while the societies in which the women live may judge them, the UN itself is clear about who’s at fault for what it calls “sexual exploitation and abuse.”

Why do they call it that?

I thought women were empowered?

In 2003, then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a bulletin discouraging sex between UN workers and the people they are sent to help, with the bulletin explaining that such relations “are based on inherently unequal power dynamics,” and “undermine the credibility and integrity of the work of the United Nations.” Peacekeepers and military police — like the father of Philippe’s children — are banned from any “fraternization” with the civilian population.

Current Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has vowed to get the UN’s “own house in order.” In 2017, he unveiled a four-pronged strategy focused not only on ending impunity, but also on prioritizing victims’ rights and dignity. He appointed the UN’s first Victims’ Rights Advocate and created a “trust fund” to support victims.

But Philippe and six other Haitian mothers interviewed by CNN say support has been meager and conditional. And their demands for justice — child support from the fathers, to which they might be entitled by Haitian law, and even compensation as victims — have come to almost nothing.

“They treat us as less than human,” one woman said, describing their interactions with the UN.

In Haiti, where warring gangs have driven thousands from their homes in Port-au-Prince, causing food and energy prices to skyrocket across the country, the women described a desperate struggle to survive and care for their children. Some have been forced to flee the country.

Meanwhile, sex scandals involving UN personnel have continued. In June this year, 60 Tanzanian peacekeepers were sent home from the Central African Republic over allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving four victims, two of them children.

Is it really “exploitation”?

Were they really “children”?

Obviously, the conquistadors fathered a lot of bastard children. All of Mexico is just bastard children from the white settlers. The average Mexican is genetically 50% white.

Was there harm done there? If so, who was harmed?

Why are we talking about this?