The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered

>Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized.

>“They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a poor white girl,” she told CNN at her single-room house, a tremor in her voice. “They always say ‘Why are you here? Just look for connections so that you can go to your own people. You don’t belong here. You’re not supposed to be here suffering.’”

>Marian believes that her father was a British soldier, but she has never met him. She does not even know his name.

>Marian is among a group of mixed-race children whose mothers say they were conceived after rape by British soldiers training in Kenya. Her mother, Lydia Juma, was among hundreds of Kenyan women who filed complaints with the UK military over the years, as documented by Kenya’s human rights body.

>“I don’t know why God is punishing me. I don’t understand,” Juma said through tears in a powerful 2011 documentary, ‘The Rape of the Samburu Women.’

>Marian, aged four at the time, sat on her lap, sometimes hugging her mother as she wept and recounted how she was violated and the suffering she had endured since.

>Juma’s live-in boyfriend, with whom she had two older children, left her after she gave birth to Marian, a mixed-race child, because rape is a taboo in their culture. “The moment he saw that the child is ‘white,’ he went, and he went forever,” she said in the film.

>Juma died two years after that interview without ever finding the man she says raped her.

>Mixed-race children continue to be born in the remote villages where the British Army trains its soldiers in Kenya. The British Army Training Unit, Kenya (BATUK), is headquartered in the town of Nanyuki, about 70 miles southwest of Archer’s Post.

>BATUK is currently under investigation by the Defense, Intelligence and Foreign Relations committee of Kenya’s National Assembly.

>It has held public hearings in several areas where British troops train and heard a litany of complaints about abuse, exploitation, and sexual assaults from communities around them.

>It intends to hear from BATUK officials and the British High Commissioner to Kenya at the end of its work later this month, according to a schedule shared with CNN.

>One of the more contentious accusations against British soldiers involves the case of Agnes Wanjiru.

>Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman, vanished in 2012 after entering a hotel with British soldiers, according to reports.

> Her body was later found in a septic tank. Despite a Kenyan inquest ruling her death a murder and the reported identification of a suspect by fellow soldiers, the British soldier allegedly involved hasn’t faced charges.

If this is indeed rape as opposed to having a go on the foreign soldiers, a time honoured tradition, then it must be investigated and punishment made for those responsible. Let’s leave the rape to the Russian militia and keep our soldiers professional shall we?

Edit:
‘Generica Namoru pictured with her five-year old daughter Nicole. Namoru says she was in a consensual relationship with a UK soldier but he has abandoned her and their child since leaving Kenya. ‘

Child support payments but for this it seems fair play…

This is true to form, the British military have been committing sex crimes in Kenya for decades. In the 50s and 60s there was state sponsored child rape and sexual assault. I’m not surprised it still goes on.

You can. Immediately tell this is a provocative attacking article (not sure what the US angle is here tbh) by the title stating ‘many’.
How can bring such an aggressive accusation against the British Army without figures? 

If you have proof I’m all on your side, if you don’t I’m afraid I can’t take your word for it however sad that may sound.

Men who can’t control their sexual urges are dangerous. Men who have unprotected sex need to pay money to the mother to raise their get. Shame on the army, but shame on men in general. Not surprised in the least. This is how STD’s get circulated in society onto your innocent daughters and sons. DO FUCKING BETTER you horntoad scumbuckets.

DNA test them all.

I worked in in Africa and the local women were constantly offering sex. I remember one who was always flirting with me in the local bar I kept turning her down. Anyway she found out that I went with another woman and flew into a rage attacking and spitting on me. I don’t believe the rape would be widespread but sexual relations would have been widespread. A few years later I was in Nairobi with my wife and this local woman became very aggressive shouting that she wanted sex with my wife, it is a crazy place.

I mean growing up in Northern Ireland where we had armed soldiers training rifles on us as we waited for the schoolbus every day and openly calling for us to “give them a reason,” yeah, I can see the British Army absolutely being full of these kinds of cunts.

I have my doubts, highly anecdotal but the soldiers I know personally were piss scared of having sex with the locals due to HIV/AIDS. They wouldn’t even entertain the thought.