UN
Downplayed
Dead in CAR,
Pays France to
Re-Start
Colonies,
Twerks
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 18 --
The UN claims
that its
response to
the crisis
in the Central
African
Republic is
the first
example of its
post
Sri
Lanka failure
Rights Up
Front plan.
But
on Wednesday,
while UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon made
Miley Cyrus
twerking jokes
to a group
of complacent
correspondents
who tried to
silence
reporting on
Sri Lanka,
Amnesty
International
outed
the UN
for having
undercounted
and downplayed
the extent of
the killing in
the CAR.
And
Doctors
Without Border
complained of
UN inaction in
Bangui, with
international
staff hiding
in their
compounds
while people
were
killed and
suffering just
outside. When
Inner City
Press asked
Ban
about this, he
blamed it on
the lack of
government and
infrastructure
in the CAR.
Well,
Central
African
Republic was a
French colony
that was left
in
shambles.
France
supported
"Emperor"
Bokasa and
sold him
Faberge eggs
and mink
capes, then
supported
Bozize, and
may still.
The
UN has gotten
so desperate
that it
applauds
France
re-asserting
its
colonial
interests, and
ascribes
France's
deployments to
itself,
"Rights Up
Front."
But
when the
soldiers
France has
brought into
Mali from
other former
colonies and
put in blue
helmets to get
paid, like
France does
for
airfield
services in
Kidal, open
fire at
civilians, no
one will
answer for it.
Least of all
France, whose
Ambassador
Araud even as
December's
Security
Council
president has
twice rejected
and tried to
mock questions
about the
chain of
command in
Mali.
Araud has refused
to say how
much France is
paid by the UN
for airfield
support in
Mali.
Meanwhile past
9 pm on Wednesday
the UN Budget
Committee met.
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe seemed to
say its work
will finish in
two days, the
Friday before
Christmas.
Amid talk of
bracketing,
this seems
unlikely. In
any case for
the UN,
credibility
can't be
budgeted.
Wednesday
night
alongside the
ball of the UN
Censorship
Alliance, another
diplomat
tweeted photos
from an event
where Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
Peacekeeping,
purported to
thank troop
contributing
countries in
the Dag
Hammarskjold
Library
penthouse.
It
is unknown for
now what
Ladsous said
-- on December
17 he refused
to
talk about
South Sudan,
then let it
leak out that
400 to 500
were
killed. Is
that subject
to the 100%
Amnesty
International
UN
obfuscation
multiplier?
Watch this
site.
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