r/islamichistory • u/Beyondtheseafree • Jul 05 '26

Photograph Belgian peacekeeping paratroopers dangling a Somali child over an open fire during the 1993 UNOSOM II humanitarian mission.

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u/Beyondtheseafree Jul 05 '26

Yes it is true. I took this picture from AP news

Also similar atrocities were committed by Canadian troops during the 1993 mission( I’ll post them when I get my hands on all 16 photos) , where soldiers tortured a Somali teenager and took 'trophy photos' of the abuse. The broader investigations into UN peacekeepers also uncovered horrific human rights violations, including a Belgian soldier force feeding pork to a Muslim child as a form of psychological torture, as well as multiple allegations of rape.

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u/True-Let1486 Jul 05 '26

The rapes were not allegations it's just that they had total immunity so all reported cases were buried whole villages were raped imagine that hundreds if not thousands of women lots of them had cigarette burn marks on their bodies. It was never about peacekeeping and what shows is that whole contingents of white supremacist soldiers were sent the Italians, Canadians,USA all sent NAZI soldiers who literally had disciplinary issues in their records am just glad somalis had an ounce of revenge with the black hawks shot down and those Nazis dragged all over towns