Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by U.N. peacekeepers
vruz: this is horrible. no apology in the world can absolve us from this shame. the military seems to always have a knack for the national stain. this is what happens when you recruit brutalised ignorant people with guns joining the army in a high-risk environment only because it’s marginally better than starving doing nothing. ethical, sensible people need not apply.
—via jalwhite:
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica apologized to Haitian President Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan U.N. peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state, Uruguay’s government said on Tuesday.
Public outrage in earthquake-ravaged Haiti has surged over a video shot by a cellphone camera and circulating on the Internet that shows laughing Uruguayan marines pinning the young Haitian face down on a mattress and apparently assaulting him sexually.
