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UNlike
Police,
Ladsous Plans
To Take 800
Burundi
Soldiers In
CAR
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow Up To
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, June
23 -- The UN
of Ban Ki-moon
and Herve
Ladsous plans
to accept 800
more soldiers
from Burundi
for "service"
in the Central
African
Republic,
Inner City
Press was
exclusively
informed and
got the UN to
confirm on
June 23. But
why?
When the
Burundi UN
Peacebuilding
Configuration
met on June
20, Pierre
Nkurunziza's
Ambassador
Albert
Shingiro said
his government
will not talk
with
“putschist and
their allies.”
It was unclear
how this
applies to
human rights
defenders such
as
Pierre-Claver
Mbonimpa.
Shingiro's
claims about
press freedom,
too, rang
false.
On DRC,
Shingiro
quoted UN
experts that
the “M23” in
DRC are trying
to overthrow
Nkurunziza. He
did not reply
to a quote
from his
party's
Imbonerakure
youth wing,
“We will rape
and impregnate
our enemy's
women and
girls” to
create more
Imbonerakure.
This phrase
hung in the
air of
Conference
Room 7,
unresponded
to.
Shingiro, it
now appears,
has been
living at
least a double
life online.
On June 21 his
photograph
with UN
official
Mogens
Lykketoft and
Under
Secretary
General for
Public
Information
Cristina
Gallach was
tweeted, not
from
@AShingiro but
rather from
@jabaga70,
one which many
in Burundi
have long
associated
with hate
speech. See
below.
So it was
fitting that
Shingiro was
told by the
UN's Herve
Ladsous, with
his own
history,
here, that
unlike the
Burundi Police
being
repatriated
from CAR as
first reported
by Inner City
Press and
confirmed by
UN Police's
Stefan Feller,
Ladsous plans
to take 800
soldiers from
Burundi to
replace those
leaving in
September.
Given how
contradictory
this is -
repatriation
of police but
not soldiers -
Inner City
Press on June
23 asked Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq to
confirm it.
Yes, he said,
the soldiers
are staying.
This is the UN
of Ban and
Ladsous. We'll
have more on
this.
At the
June 22 noon
briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq
what the UN
will do about
an ambassador
found to be
moonlighting
in hate
speech. Video
here, UN Transcript
here:
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