UNITED
NATIONS, April
9 -- In the
Central
African
Republic, the
UN is either
blind or dumb
or both. How
else to
explain its
inability
Tuesday to
answer either
whether the
search for
Joseph Kony in
CAR continues,
or
how many South
African
soldiers were
killed, 13 or
23?
Inner
City Press put
both questions
to UN envoy
Margaret Vogt,
when she
called in to
Tuesday's noon
briefing.
Video here
from Minute
21:34 and
28:45.
Vogt
was polite and
in a sense
honest: of
Kony, she said
it was not
possible for
her to say if
the
search
continues,
since the UN
is not “on
ground” in Obo
(which
Inner City
Press has
previously
reported on).
This
is more honest
than another
arm of the UN,
which insisted
that the
search for
Kony continues
even as both
Uganda and the
US said it has
been suspended
in CAR.
On
how many South
African were
killed, one
wonders if it
is that the UN
does do “body
counts,” as
Vogt put it,
or does wants
to show up
South Africa,
which for
example is set
to be a
component of
the
“intervention
bridage”
slated for
Eastern Congo.
But
if the UN
doesn't know
military, it
should know
the political.
Inner
City Press
asked Vogt
about Michel
Djotodia being
able to run
for
president in
18 months.
Vogt said he
said, under
the Libreville
and
N'djamena
agreements.
But Djotodia
spokesman say
he CAN run. So
who
do you
believe?
Outside
the
Security
Council on
Tuesday
morning, a
Chadian
diplomat told
Inner City
Press he tried
to go into the
consultations
on CAR, but
couldn't get
in. We are
impacted, he
said.
UNbelievable.
Watch this
site.
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