UN suspends Moroccan military contigent for sexual abuses in Ivory Coast

Reuters News reports that the United Nations has suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast while it investigates allegations of Moroccan soldiers having sex with a large number of underage girls in Ivory Coast's northern rebel stronghold of Bouake. Locals complained to the UN after it ran a campaign against sexual exploitation in which it asked local people to inform it about abuses.
.........I was tempted to congratulate the UN for finally taking action, but I will not because that is what they are supposed to do. Any sound organization should have a mechanism for dealing with sexual harassment, violence and other problems that tarnish the name of that organization. And to think that the UN ignored sexual exploitation by peacekeepers and other field staff for decades leaves one to wonder how serious the UN is about peacekeeping. It is ironic that the peacekeepers are sent to bring peace, but then bring violence of another kind. The kind that steals the future of school-going girls, leaving them children and no hope for a better future. The UN brings the violence that many young girls suffer at the hands of rebels so that one wonders whether we should start looking at the UN as a bunch of rebels. Of course it goes without saying that one fly will spoil a whole jar of milk, but these cases seems to be so widespread. In fact it is case of a whole bunch of flies spoiling tones of milk.
......World governments should take action to penalize these men who go in and use money and in some cases the blue uniform as bait. If the UN cannot take such steps multilaterally, perhaps individual governments such as the US should place this as a precondition for sponsoring such missions. Failure to do so makes all of us complicit in these crimes since the money used as bait is paid by citizens of the world in the hope of bringing peace, not violence.
......Although a good number of these young girls are deceived into sexual exploitation, there is a minority who are willing sellers of their bodies for the willing buyers. And this raises a larger discussion Africans should be having pertaining to the need to safeguard the girl child. In many African countries the laws for safeguarding young people barely exist and if there are any they are less than adequate. And I wonder why many governments do not make potent laws to deal with and punish sexually violent peacekeepers. Is it because some of the old men who make laws are sometimes culprits themselves in the exploitation of girls using material baits such as cars?