{The UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that the 12-year-old girl, who had been allegedly raped, by a UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic endured a most brutal ordeal.}<\/p>\n
Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, said during a press conference in New York that his colleagues had met the girl and offered her every possible help.<\/p>\n
He said the assistance, include medical, psychological assistance and legal advice.<\/p>\n
Lake said the mission and the UN system came under fire last Tuesday, after human rights watchdog Amnesty International reported that a 12-year-old girl had been raped on Aug. 2 in Bangui, while UN troops from Rwanda and Cameroon were carrying out operations during armed clashes.<\/p>\n
The executive director added that rights organisation also said peacekeepers allegedly killed a 16-year-old boy and his father in the same area the following day when the troops began shooting at people indiscriminately.<\/p>\n
Lake said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in an unprecedented move last Wednesday fired the UN mission\u2019s Head, Babacar Gaye of Senegal.<\/p>\n
He said the new allegation came on the heels of multiple other reports of sexual abuse by UN troops in the country.<\/p>\n
Lake said currently, there were 11 investigations into possible sexual assaults by peacekeepers in CAR since the UN mission began in April 2014.<\/p>\n
The UN mission to CAR said in Bangui that investigation into the alleged sexual assault was ongoing.<\/p>\n
It, however, said the investigation was complicated by the large number of nationalities of police and military personnel involved in the operations when the assault allegedly took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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