Meet the families that UN peacekeepers started in Haiti … then left behind

Pauline and Roselaine are struggling to raise children in dire conditions after they were impregnated and left behind by United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti. Today they demand justice and a better future for their children. CNN agreed not to use Roselaine’s surname, as she fears stigma within her community.
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  1. 3
    Bebel

    There is a lot of ignorance on display by the comments here about what happened in Haiti. This snippet did not at all cover the massive scale of sexual abuse/exploitation that occurred. It misleadingly focuses on a story that sounds like two consensual adults and your standard paternity fight.
    It’s been well documented by multiple sources including the UN (which is why the UN admits they are victims)itself that many if not the majority of these children are the product of rape or illegal coercion by UN forces of sex for food rations to starving women or girls as they did also in many peacekeeping missions in countries in Africa and Middle East and Asia . The UN and it’s so called peacekeeping forces is woefully corrupt and has a long history of human right abuses especially of a sexual nature to women/girls in the countries they are meant to protect. The UN and the member countries have chosen to turn their eyes and ears away instead of proactively giving true justice to the victims .This snippet is one of the major reasons Haitians despise the mention of a returning UN military force. Haitians know the double devastation the UN deployment gave-cholera and UN babies.
    Both the soldiers and the organization they worked under should be held responsible in the cases of rape/illegal coercion as reports surfaced almost immediately upon stationing of troops of abuse and UN did nothing to stop it. UN peacekeepers also already had a history of these abuses in other countries so they should have had a preventive strategy . For those in consensual relationships free from coercion, it should be handled like any civil matter with facilitation of the UN for the child to gain his/her parenting rights.

  2. 4
    Mike Colin

    Now meanwhile Mr. Liar and Chief Joe Biden jad the nerve to go in front of the United Nations and requestion and international force to invade Haiti for a gang problem they helped create. I guess they want to finish raping the rest of the population of women AND boys.

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    snoski

    This comments section is sick. Yes, the women are partially reaponsible for their own choices, but it's like you all are completely absolving the men for fathering and then abandoning children JUST BECAUSE the women are partially at fault. Pretty disgusting take if you ask me.

  4. 15
    Errare Humanum Est

    Should the US government then not do the same, and take responsibility for all the children made by US fathers in other countries? And the same applies, of course, for the members of any other nation inside any other nation. But the question is, if employers are to be made responsible (like the US military or the UN bodies), or if not the actual fathers should be made responsible. I would go for the last. But I think, legal procedures must be made much easier, and for such cases, legal fees must be kept very low so the mothers can afford to go the legal route.

  5. 16
    Antoinette Bates

    Why are they surprised?? This has happened in every corner where wars and Peacekeepers share space. HUMANS do not leave their libidos at home in a box. Just PLAIN FACTS!!

  6. 17
    Rich

    THEY HAVE NONE LETHAL WAYS TO TAKE HIM DOWN. STOP ACTING LIKE THIS ISNT 2023. THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN HIM DOWN WITH NONE LETHAL WEAPONS FROM TF JUMP. IN STEAD THEY TURNED IT INTO A STAND OFF WHICH ESCALATED THE SITUATION. IF HE DAWIGHT MANN THEY WOULD HAVE STAYED BEHIND THERE VEHICLES AND TALKED HIM DOWN. FOH!!!

  7. 18
    JOSEPH STOLEN-ELECTION

    It seems the frequency with which C19 is mentioned in the Democrat media is inversely proportionate to the plummeting of the potato's popularity… Coincidence? – I think not!

  8. 19
    JOSEPH STOLEN-ELECTION

    If two White teens stole a car in Las Vegas, used it to force another car to crash, then deliberately ran over a 64-year old black man out for a morning bike ride, it would a leading news story on every news station and talk show… Alas, surprise, surprise, they weren't White.

    This is black privilege.

  9. 20
    Adelita Valle

    I understand about rape, and there should be justice and punishment. However, when you open your legs, you need to take some responsibility. You cannot be ignorant what these two-legged dogs want. I was a single mother.

  10. 21
    JOSEPH STOLEN-ELECTION

    Ukraine lost 90% (!) of the men conscripted to replenish units last year. Only ONE IN TEN aren’t dеаd, wounded or incapacitated.

    This was stated by the head of the Poltava Military Commissariat, not as a complaint, but as a call to intensify mobilization.

    What a disaster… Anyone who supports this ongoing carnage in the interest of the globalists, as propagandized by their MSM mouthpieces, is pure evil.

  11. 26
    Jonathan T. Modesto

    (Daniel 9:27 was fulfilled in August 13 2023 also when the woman began travailing in birth in order to fulfill the time of the gentiles for the mystery of Revelation 12 to be completed, Daniel 12:1 next, three riders were released within 2020 and 2023. These words are true and worthy, he who has ears to hear let him hear.)

    “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 3.

    “And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 8 to 11.

    “All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 8 to 10.

    “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 25 to 28.

    “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

    Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 16 to 18.

    “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

    First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3 to 6.

    “Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.”

    Acts, chapter 8, verse 22.

    “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

    Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3.

    “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

    Gospel of Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17.

    “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”

    Hosea, chapter 6, verse 2.

    “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

    Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8.

    “knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

    Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 3 to 4.

    “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

    First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 3.

    “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

    First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 to 17.

    “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

    First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 52.

    “I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”

    Gospel of Luke, chapter 17, verse 34 to 36.

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  12. 27
    Courtney Dubbs

    EVERY LIE WILL BE REVEALED, THEY WAS CAUGHT KIDNAPPING KIDS IN HATI WHEN MIKE FLYNN LEAD INVASION UNDER CLINTON.. WEVE BEEN LEAD AND EDUCATED AKA INDOCTRINATED BY SATANS SONS.

  13. 30
    Omar Suave

    Unless they were raped, it’s no different than any man leaving. These Haitian women chose these men, knowing damn well that these men were African!! The Haitians women did it for survival (prostitution) and now want “fathers”. It’s ridiculous.

  14. 34
    stopdrinkingthekoolaidplz

    The same UN that is currently screaming that they "own the truth" and "everyone should know it" and about taking over the entire internet because "disinformation" or something. The same UN that has so many scandals involving rape of local women & children, pedophilia among its members.

    The same group that was unwilling to do anything about Rwanda in 1994
    Darfur in 2003
    The breakup of Sudan
    The collapse of Lebanon
    The Yazidi genocide by ISIL
    The famine in Yemen
    The genocide in Tigray
    The Ukraine War

    And so so so so so much more. Their entire purpose is supposed to be PREVENTING these issues but they never EVER do even though they have a budget of billions and the supposed power of the biggest, most powerful countries on the planet.

    And yet everyone just lets them amass more and more and more and more power.

  15. 35
    Andrea Lambert

    Gotta love the description…"after they were impregnated and left behind." Makes it sound like somebody snuck in their window while they were sleeping, secretly implanted sperm in them and then snuck back out.

  16. 36
    ALEX SKATIT

    Unless someone was raped, these women knew exactly what they were getting into and are not victims. They were looking for a meal ticket. Plenty of children in Haiti and all over the world have absent fathers.

  17. 38
    nibblit

    @4:01 Justice?!? Ridiculous! These people should have thought about the consequences before having sex. Don't have kids if you can't afford them.

    This is dumb.

  18. 40
    Yoyo

    i watched a documentary about how there is an entire generation of prostitutes children in thailand that are left behind by their american parents and have to continue prostution

  19. 45
    sinefromabove babylon

    Ohhhhhhhhh but yall wonder why haitians would rather remain in its current state than allow the usa and UN back in haiti??? 😂😂😂😂 THIS IS THE REASON…and mind u, you think only women were affected? Girls as young as 13 also got pregnant. Oh wait theres more… young boys were also assaulted. You wanna know why we burn the american flag? This is why… and you all turned a blind eye

  20. 47
    Don Sims

    ASK THE HAITIAN PEOPLE ABOUT THE MILLIONS HILLARY CLINTON'S BROTHER STOLE FROM THEM THAT WAS INTENDED FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS RELIEF 😢

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