The head of the UN
mission in Central African Republic (CAR) has promised to take tough action
over allegations that peacekeepers sexually abused four young girls in the
capital, Bangui, AFP news agency reports.
"We have come to this country to help a
population which is already traumatised. It is absolutely unacceptable for even
a single peacekeeping soldier to be involved in these awful acts," Parfait
Onanga-Anyanga said at a news conference in Bangui, it reports.
"Where there is
doubt we will take the side of the victims," he added, vowing that
"the sanctions will be strong when we have established who is
responsible".
The girls had been
interviewed by investigators from the UN children's agency, Unicef, and the
countries from where the troops came - believed to be Gabon, Egypt and Morocco
- had also been asked to conduct an investigation, AFP reports.
It quotes Mr
Onanga-Anyanga as saying that the soldiers were "not only those of Minusca", the acronym for the UN force
in CAR.
But an officer with
the French armed forces - the only other foreign military mission in the
country - said they were not aware of any new case against them.
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