UNTAC Soldiers' Forgotten Children in Cambodia

[Anchor Moy]

Reading stuff online, I came across this article called Her Name Is Untac: UN Peacekeepers’ Forgotten Children in Cambodia
Thirty years ago, a peace treaty officially ended the war in Cambodia and brought thousands of United Nations peacekeepers to the country. The now adult children they fathered and abandoned still face poverty, discrimination and family strains.
26 October 2021
https://newnaratif.com/her-name-is-unta ... -cambodia/


This is not a particularly recent article, illegitimate children happen all the time, but the scale suggested here is enormous. True or not - thought it was worth discussing :

A 2001 paper published by the Norway-based War and Children Identity Project cites an Australian TV documentary that estimated that UN personnel fathered up to 25,000 children in Cambodia between 1992 and 1997.

[David Gordon]

I know very little about this but from what I could glean there were a lot of people with huge incomes and a mandate to spread the wealth - what could possibly go wrong?

[John Bingham]

I know very little about this but from what I could glean there were a lot of people with huge incomes and a mandate to spread the wealth - what could possibly go wrong?

No, the mandate was to disarm the factions (which wasn't very successful) and organize elections. It had nothing to do with spreading wealth.