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UN official: Peacekeepers committing crimes must be punished

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — International peacekeepers who commit crimes must be punished, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday following the revelation of yet another sexual abuse allegation in Central African Republic. "There is no excuse, no mitigating circumstances, nothing at all to justify the acts themselves or the failure to apply punishments that fit the crime," Zeid said at a news conference in the capital, Bangui.

 

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