UN complicit in Balkans sex trade. (Insider Report).

"A senior United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted," reported the February 9th issue of The Scotsman. "Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries."

Prior to the mid-1990s, the Balkan sex trade was practically nonexistent. This changed abruptly when the UN took over administrating Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995. Since then, sex slavery--abduction of girls as young as 12 from eastern Europe to serve as prostitutes in brothels--has become a major industry in Bosnia and Kosovo (also under UN administration). UN officials, both civilian and military, are deeply involved in this despicable commerce.

Kathryn Bolkovac, a former UN police officer, was fired from her post in Bosnia for exposing the involvement of UN and DynCorp officials in the Balkans sex trade. (DynCorp is a U.S.-based military contractor.) "Bolkovac had revealed UN peacekeepers went to nightclubs where young girls were forced to dance naked and have sex with customers, and that UN personnel and international aid workers were linked to prostitution rings in the Balkans," observed The Scotsman. "At the time, Rees described it as 'the biggest cover-up I have ever seen,' adding that she believed thirty percent of those visiting Bosnia's brothels were UN personnel, peacekeepers or aid workers."

Numerous officials from the UN's CivPol (civilian police agency) have been cashiered for their involvement in the sex trade. But according to Rees, such people are essentially above accountability. The UN insists that it's up to member countries to prosecute such offenses, and to date none have done so.