Where's the Bourguet Trial?
I just did a 90-day Nexis search and an International Herald Tribune newspaper search for Didier Bourguet and got just three hits, with nothing new. Same with Google, according to John at Sheeps Crib.
Bourguet is the French UN employee who is supposedly on trial in France for amassing a vast library of pornographic images of himself having his way with young Congolese girls. ABC obtained some of the photos and showed one in which a tear can be seen rolling down the check of the young victim. Bourguet's lawyer has blamed a lax environment created by the U.N., in which it is considered permissable to have sex with young girls.
As John says, "So much for Frog justice." Maybe yes, maybe no ... time will tell. But Bourguet's case, or lack of it, points up the importance of doing more than creating a new environment among UN Peacekeepers -- we also need an entirely new way to investigate, prosecute and nail these slime. We'll see if the UN can actually implement effectively the reforms that have been proposed.
Bourguet is the French UN employee who is supposedly on trial in France for amassing a vast library of pornographic images of himself having his way with young Congolese girls. ABC obtained some of the photos and showed one in which a tear can be seen rolling down the check of the young victim. Bourguet's lawyer has blamed a lax environment created by the U.N., in which it is considered permissable to have sex with young girls.
As John says, "So much for Frog justice." Maybe yes, maybe no ... time will tell. But Bourguet's case, or lack of it, points up the importance of doing more than creating a new environment among UN Peacekeepers -- we also need an entirely new way to investigate, prosecute and nail these slime. We'll see if the UN can actually implement effectively the reforms that have been proposed.
posted by Laer at 7:12 PM
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