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| GENEVA — The top human rights official at the United Nations has urged several African members to “intensify their efforts” at prosecuting what he described as longstanding allegations of egregious abuses, including summary killings, by troops they had sent to keep the peace in the Central African Republic, one of the continent’s most dysfunctional and chaotic countries. | GENEVA — The top human rights official at the United Nations has urged several African members to “intensify their efforts” at prosecuting what he described as longstanding allegations of egregious abuses, including summary killings, by troops they had sent to keep the peace in the Central African Republic, one of the continent’s most dysfunctional and chaotic countries. |
| The official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the high commissioner for human rights, said he took the step over the weekend partly out of concern about the uproar over reports of a food-for-sex scandal by French soldiers who had been deployed in the country, which his agency investigated last year. | |
| The French authorities have undertaken their own inquiry into the matter, in which soldiers are accused of promising food to children in exchange for oral sex. | |
| “In the wake of the revelations of alleged sexual abuse of children, currently under investigation by the French authorities, my office has taken a deeper look into these issues and the extent of the follow-up into alleged serious violations by soldiers belonging to several other international contingents” operating in the Central African Republic, Mr. al-Hussein said in a statement posted on his agency’s website. | “In the wake of the revelations of alleged sexual abuse of children, currently under investigation by the French authorities, my office has taken a deeper look into these issues and the extent of the follow-up into alleged serious violations by soldiers belonging to several other international contingents” operating in the Central African Republic, Mr. al-Hussein said in a statement posted on his agency’s website. |
| The statement said he had “urged several states to intensify their efforts to investigate longstanding allegations that soldiers in their forces sent to keep the peace in the Central African Republic may have committed very serious violations.” | The statement said he had “urged several states to intensify their efforts to investigate longstanding allegations that soldiers in their forces sent to keep the peace in the Central African Republic may have committed very serious violations.” |
| While Mr. al-Hussein generally praised soldiers deployed after mass killings across the Central African Republic in 2013, “in some cases the longed-for protectors turned into predators.” | |