Tanzanian Peacekeepers To Be Repatriated After Abuse Claims
Channel: Alkebu-lan Africa
Date: 2023-06-11

Umoja wa Mataifa siku ya Ijumaa (Juni 09) ulitangaza kikosi cha askari 60 wa kulinda amani kutoka Tanzania wanatakiwa kurejeshwa kutoka Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati kufuatia tuhuma nzito za unyanyasaji na unyanyasaji wa kingono.

Uhalifu unaodaiwa haukuwekwa tarehe. Akizungumza kutoka New York, msemaji wa Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa alisema uchunguzi wa awali ulibaini waathiriwa 4.

"Waathiriwa waliotambuliwa wanapatiwa matunzo na usaidizi na washirika wa kibinadamu wa Misheni. Ujumbe pia umetuma timu ili kushirikiana zaidi na jamii," Stéphane Dujarric alisema.

"Mamlaka za Tanzania zimearifiwa rasmi na zimetuma maafisa wa uchunguzi wa kitaifa katika Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati [...]"

Ushahidi wa kuaminika ulipatikana dhidi ya wanachama 11 wa kitengo hicho ambacho zamani kilikuwa na makao yake magharibi mwa Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati.

"Kitengo kimehamishwa hadi kituo kingine huku uchunguzi ukiendelea, na wanachama wa kitengo hicho wamezuiliwa kwenye kambi, hii ni kwa ajili ya kuwalinda wahasiriwa pamoja na uadilifu wa uchunguzi," Dujarric alifichua.

"Kitengo kitarejeshwa nyumbani mara uwepo wao hautahitajika tena ukumbini na wachunguzi...."

Dujarric alieleza kwamba "Sekretarieti ya kurudisha kitengo hiki" ilikuwa kwa mujibu wa azimio 2272 la Baraza la Usalama "ambapo Baraza "linaidhinisha uamuzi wa Katibu Mkuu wa kurejesha kitengo fulani cha kijeshi au kuunda kitengo cha polisi cha kikosi wakati. kuna ushahidi wa kuaminika wa unyanyasaji na unyanyasaji wa kingono ulioenea au wa kimfumo unaofanywa na kitengo hicho'.

Umoja wa Mataifa ulirekodi kwenye tovuti yake kwamba tangu mwaka wa 2015, shutuma 254 za unyanyasaji wa kingono na unyanyasaji zikiwalenga wajumbe wa Ujumbe wake wa Kimataifa wa Kuleta Utulivu katika Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati au MINUSCA.
The UN on Friday (June 09) announced a unit of 60 peacekeepers from Tanzania was to be repatriated from the Central African Republic following serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse.

The alleged crimes were not dated. Speaking from New York, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said a preliminary investigation identified 4 victims.

"The identified victims are being provided with care and support by the Mission’s humanitarian partners. The Mission has also deployed a team to further engage with the community," Stéphane Dujarric said.

"The Tanzanian authorities have been formally notified and have deployed national investigation officers to the Central African Republic [...]"

Credible evidence wasfound against 11 members of the unit formerly based in the western part of the Central African Republic.

“The unit has been relocated to another base while the investigation continues, and members of the unit are confined to barracks, this is in order to protect victims as well of course as the integrity of the investigation", Dujarric revealed.

"The unit will be repatriated once their presence is no longer required in theatre by the investigators...."

Dujarric explained that the “by the Secretariat to repatriate this unit" was in accordance with resolution 2272 of the Security Council "where the Council ‘endorses the decision of the Secretary-General to repatriate a particular military unit or formed police unit of a contingent when there is credible evidence of widespread or systemic sexual exploitation and abuse by that unit’.”

The United Nations recorded on its website that since 2015, 254 accusations of sexual exploitation and abuse targeting members of its Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic or MINUSCA.

The UN chief António Guterres announced early in his tenure A policy of ‘zero tolerance’ towards sexual abuse by UN personnel, calling on Member States to sign a voluntary compact on preventing and addressing the scourge, in 2017.

Accusations of exploitation and sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers around the world are widespread.

Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa António Guterres alitangaza mapema katika muda wake sera ya 'kutovumilia kabisa' dhidi ya unyanyasaji wa kingono unaofanywa na wafanyakazi wa Umoja wa Mataifa, akitoa wito kwa Nchi Wanachama kutia saini mkataba wa hiari wa kuzuia na kushughulikia janga hilo, mwaka 2017.

Shutuma za unyonyaji na unyanyasaji wa kijinsia na walinda amani wa Umoja wa Mataifa kote ulimwenguni zimeenea.