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US & UN Peacekeepers Did Nothing as US Aid Workers were Raped, Beaten, Shot Right Next to Them

Matt Agorist August 15, 2016 20 Comments

Nairobi, Kenya — A shocking report out of the AP on Monday, details a horrific attack that unfolded in Nairobi last month. For four hours, multiple female aid workers were beaten, shot, and savagely raped — all while U.N. peacekeeping troops and the U.S. Embassy sat back and did nothing.

“Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” a soldier said, according to one of the female aid workers. By the end of the hours-long attack, the woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.

The ones who could have stopped it — did nothing.

According to the report in the AP, on July 11, South Sudanese troops, fresh from winning a battle in the capital, Juba, over opposition forces, went on a nearly four-hour rampage through a residential compound popular with foreigners, in one of the worst targeted attacks on aid workers in South Sudan’s three-year civil war. They shot dead a local journalist while forcing the foreigners to watch, raped several foreign women, singled out Americans, beat and robbed people and carried out mock executions, several witnesses told The Associated Press.

When the troops arrived, the aid workers began calling for help to the U.N. Peacekeepers and the U.S. Embassy. They were literally right next door, less than a mile away. The desperate calls for help continued throughout the attack. However, they fell on deaf ears.

The AP interviewed eight of the survivors from the attack on the Terrain hotel complex who wished to remain anonymous for their safety as their organizations are still operating in South Sudan. The survivors described, in gory detail, how they were repeatedly raped, beaten, and shot.

According to a report by the Terrain’s Owner, at least five women were raped, while torture, mock executions, beatings and looting took place. An unknown number of South Sudanese women were also assaulted.

As the AP reports,

The accounts highlight, in raw detail, the failure of the U.N. peacekeeping force to uphold its core mandate of protecting civilians, notably those just a few minutes’ drive away. The Associated Press previously reported that U.N. peacekeepers in Juba did not stop the rapes of local women by soldiers outside the U.N.’s main camp last month.

The attack comes on the heels of a recently passed U.S. resolution in the U.N. to send more peacekeeping troops to protect civilians.

This horrifying attack brings into question the very existence of the U.N.’s ostensible peacekeeping mission.

An armed response from the peacekeeping troops next door would have undoubtedly served to prevent, or, at least, lessen the severity of the situation. Instead, the U.N. and the U.S. troops at the Embassy sat back and watched the violence unfold.

“You tell your embassy how we treated you,” one of the soldiers said during the attack.

“We kill you! We kill you!” the soldiers shouted, according to a Western woman in the bathroom. “They would shoot up at the ceiling and say, ‘Do you want to die?’ and we had to answer ‘No!’”

The soldiers then pulled people out one by one. One woman said she was sexually assaulted by multiple men. Another Western woman said soldiers beat her with fists and threatened her with their guns when she tried to resist. She said five men raped her, according to the AP.

“All of us were contacting whoever we could contact. The U.N., the U.S. embassy, contacting the specific battalions in the U.N., contacting specific departments,” said the woman raped by 15 men.

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