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Peacekeepers and Prostitutes. (Insider Report).(United Nations Peacekeepers investigated for soliciting prostitution)(Brief Article)
UN-occupied Bosnia, in addition to being an international terrorist haven, has also become notorious for its prominence in the Balkan sex trade, reported the June 30th Sunday Herald of London. "There is absolutely no dispute that the sex traffic market came with the arrival of the peacekeepers," asserts Madeleine Rees, who directs the UN Office for Human Rights in Bosnia. Rees has accused Denis Laducer, the deputy commissioner of Bosnia's International Police Task Force (IPTF), of being a regular client at a Bosnia brothel where women are forced to serve as prostitutes.
Rees is just one of several UN-affiliated individuals who have criticized the organization for facilitating the sexual abuse of young, impoverished women trapped in Bosnia's criminal underworld. Kathryn Bolkovac, a 20-year police veteran from Lincoln, Nebraska, was sent to Bosnia to supervise investigations of sex crimes. "I would drive by on patrols and see UN vehicles outside many of the bars and at first, I thought, 'OK, you know, they're having a drink,'" Bolkovac told the BBC. "But then the reports started coming in from the ...
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