Talk:Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers

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Removed in its entirety the section titled "Child abuse by UN troops in Ivory Coast" -- section text was taken directly from the referenced site (http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704188104575083334130312808.html) which also contained POV issues e.g. "shockingly." Pfoot 09:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Is there a reason why the names of the whistle blowers are not mentioned?

e.g. Anders Kompass of the UN who did wonderful workd and about whom a documentary was made. or Kathryn Bolkovac - a multi-award winning movie was made about what she lived.

Thy --SvenAERTS (talk) 00:54, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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I added 2 pictures to help with the visualization of the topic.Katelynkisak (talk) 13:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)Katelynkisak

Merge proposal:UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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The article UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti, should be merged into this article since it is WP:REDUNDANT as it becomes a WP:POVFORK with WP:NATIONALIST editors trying to create an WP:OR link to Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka, where as this article is centered around the general phenomenon of prostitution linked to peacekeeping. Cossde (talk) 04:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

oppose merger since this topic deals with a specific scandal in a specific country. The reasons given are unfounded since only mainstream reliable sources are cited, therefore are subjective and not some existing Wikipedia guidelines.--- Petextrodon (talk) 05:15, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

This article (Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers) deals with similar issues, without another articles for specific scandals or specific country. Why the difference with Haiti? Cossde (talk) 05:49, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

You are free to create other articles for those countries, whose cases I'm not familiar with enough to comment on, but the Haiti child sex ring has been widely reported thus worthy of such separate treatment. --- Petextrodon (talk) 05:52, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

You don't seem to be intrested in creating other articles for those countries, does this mean you are more intrested sexual abuse by UN Sri Lankan peacekeepers, than UN peacekeepers in general? Cossde (talk) 05:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

My personal interests are irrelevant. Let's stick to the topic at hand. ---- Petextrodon (talk) 06:00, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

So you agree that you are only intrested in the sexual abuse by UN Sri Lankan peacekeepers? Cossde (talk) 06:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

That doesn't really have to do with anything... you can make an article on that if it's relevant and has long term effects PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Oz346, Petextrodon, UtoD, and SinhalaLion:. Cossde (talk) 04:59, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Pharaoh of the Wizards @Obi2canibe would also appreciate your input. --- Petextrodon (talk) 05:57, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Dan arndt: appreciate your input. Cossde (talk) 06:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Oppose merger, as it is a prominent incident deserving of its own page:

https://apnews.com/article/international-news-peacekeepers-as-predators-colombo-haiti-ap-top-news-96f9ff66b7b34d9f971edf0e92e2082c

The user who suggests this merger, has a long history of attempting to remove reliably sourced content that shows Sri Lankan army crimes, including sexual violence:

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Talk:Sri Lanka Armed Forces#OHCHR report regarding sexual violence Oz346 (talk) 08:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Oz346, are you gaining resorting to WP:Personal Attack as you have done in the past? I feel this discussion is a fine example of WP:HOUNDING by Petextrodon and Oz346. Cossde (talk) 10:08, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Personal attack is disputing my arguments by questioning my motive, or worse, ascribing it, as you have done with several replies above. So, once again, let's stick to the topic at hand since this isn't the place to discuss personal interests. --- Petextrodon (talk) 14:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Your WP:BIAS editing ([4] and [5]) is clearly part of this discussion due to a lack of WP:NPOV on your part here as you have mentioned here. Cossde (talk) 03:08, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

All the sources I cited are mainstream and reliable. AP News was the one that popularized the case in recent times through their investigation, so I'm afraid your accusations are unfounded and unfair. --- Petextrodon (talk) 15:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Yet you have failed to achieve WP:BALANCE in your writing. That I will leave to other neutral editors to decide in that. Cossde (talk) 14:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Oppose merge. Haiti is a specific country and the sexual abuse there had specific and long term effects - part of why they're so afraid to deploy the UN there again. There's enough for an independent article for both. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:25, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose - The arguments made for merger by Cossde do not bear up to any scrutiny. UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti was never a WP:POVFORK - when it was created in July 2013, Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers had a just a brief sentence on the abuse in Haiti and there was no dispute. Nor is UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti WP:OR, multiple WP:RS have been provided and there are many more online. The two articles have co-existed for more than a decade without any issue. So what has changed? UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti is another article that's a victim of collateral damage resulting from the disputes between Cossde, Oz346 and Petextrodon that has been raging for months over multiple articles.--Obi2canibe (talk) 22:06, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

  Casually dismissing industrial scale child sexual abuse by armed men as "prostitution" is vile. Obi2canibe (talk) 22:08, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you Obi2canibe, I agree with you most strongly. I do apologies on the incorrect wording, it is what the title of this article says sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, hence the merge request. That said, the article content in the UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti needs to be included in the main article since it clearly indicates that this is a major issue seen with peacekeeping forces in the past and present, this is clearly stated in the supporting refs. What is not stated is the link to alleged Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka which some WP:NATIONALIST editors are trying to create with edits such as this [6] and highlight it with edits such as [7] and [8]. One of these editors have here that they have no interest in child sexual abuse UN peacekeepers, their interest seems to be bias editing against the Sri Lanka hence the approach here of WP:POVFORK. Cossde (talk) 03:06, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

  This isn't a POVFORK when it's a specific subset localized to its own location (Haiti). The sexual abuse in Haiti had specific causes and effects different from this article which is more generalized. The abuse in Haiti lead to long term, severe consequences for the country. The dispute you all are having is completely unrelated. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:23, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

  Cossde, There's no WP:NATIONALIST editing since the content is a summary of the mainstream news article cited which evidently you didn't bother reading.--- Petextrodon (talk) 15:23, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, I am questioning your motives as your edit history appears to reflect WP:NATIONALIST editing and your WP:OR in linking this article with [9]. Cossde (talk) 02:12, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Cossde, the same can be said about some of your edits. Once again, there's no WP:OR and I urge you to read the article cited before throwing these unfounded accusations at me. --- Petextrodon (talk) 18:01, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, can you please quote the part of the article that refers to "The culture of impunity for the sexual violence against Tamils during Sri Lankan civil war contributed to the abuses". Cossde (talk) 13:59, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Cossde, so you admit that all this time you hadn't even bothered to read the cited article before you threw these accusations of nationalist editing and original research at me? Otherwise, I don't know how anyone could have missed this part which explicitly has the phrase "culture of impunity":

  "The alleged abuses committed by its troops abroad stem from a culture of impunity that arose during Sri Lanka’s civil war and has seeped into its peacekeeping missions. The government has consistently refused calls for independent investigations into its generation-long civil war, marked by widespread reports of rape camps, torture, mass killings and other alleged war crimes by its troops." https://apnews.com/article/a41a3d23872d4e1d976663e2338f8e4d

  Next time try reading the cited source first because what you have done is highly unethical and am sure also breaches Wiki guidelines. --- 18:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC) Petextrodon (talk) 18:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, I can read a source thank you very much. I was keen to know how you came to the conclusion you did in your edit. Once again, you come at me with "so you admit that all this time you hadn't even bothered to read the cited article". In this case I feel that you are behavior is highly unethical and in breach of Wiki guidelines. You have take a broad and general phasing and linked it to Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka an article you appear to be the WP:OWNER, which appears to me as WP:OR and thereafter added it to the see also which is a clear goes against MOS:ALSO. Cossde (talk) 23:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

  @Cossde Then what was the reason for requesting me to quote the obvious? So what you're now saying is you don't like a hyperlink to another very relevant article involving the same perpetrators, therefore you want the whole article on the Haiti scandal deleted by merging it with the current one? Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't work according to your personal likes and dislikes. You had no problem adding links to sexual violence in unrelated conflicts in the "See also" of Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka, so what changed now? --- Petextrodon (talk) 00:51, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, please read my original merge proposal. You will find the answer to that there. Cossde (talk) 14:46, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, please read my original merge proposal. You will find the answer to that there. Cossde (talk) 14:46, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Cossde You did not address my points. Please stop being evasive and engage constructively. --- Petextrodon (talk) 21:48, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Petextrodon, isn't that what you do all the time? Cossde (talk) 04:34, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Cossde we are still waiting for you to address your blatant double standards. --- Petextrodon (talk) 19:56, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose merger merger UN child sexual abuse scandal in Haiti is not a WP:POVFORK it is a prominent incident deserving of its own page. This topic deals with a specific scandal in a specific country.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 04:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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