Amid
Killings in
Darfur, UN
& Ladsous
Invisible,
Missions Asked
by FUNCA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 11 --
After "dozens"
or now
"hundreds"
were killed in
East Darfur,
with the
figure of 100
dead on August
10
alone, one
wondered if
the UN
Security
Council would
meet or issue
a
Press
Statement
about it.
There
is a billion
dollar
"peacekeeping"
mission in
Darfur, with
a protection
of civilians
mandate. UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous
visited Sudan
in July; he
met with
International
Criminal
Court indictee
president Omar
al Bashir.
Inner City
Press has
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
spokespeople
what the goals
and
accomplishments
of this
Ladsous -
Bashir meeting
were, without
substantive
response.
During
this deadly
fighting,
which spread
from Saturday
into Sunday,
August
11, where WAS
the billion
dollar UNAMID
mission?
Where was
Ladsous?
Before
disappearing
from sight,
Ladsous had
his spokesperson
Kieran
Dwyer
spoon-feed
an answer to
Inner City
Press' June 24
question
about
the UN Mine
Action Service
in Somalia
funneling
information to
the US with
another media.
See
#LADSOUS2013,
The History
through
Twitter, Part
1 here, Part 2
here.
The
Free UN
Coalition for
Access, which
seeks to open
and make more
fair
access to
information
not only from
reclusive UN
Secretariat
officials like
Ladsous but
also from the
Security
Council,
directed a
question
to the UK and
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant, Council
"pen-holders"
on Darfur: is
any meeting or
statement
planned?
The same was
directed by
@FUNCA_info to
UNAMID and to
the US
Mission and
new Ambassador
Samantha Power,
who gave a
speech Saturday
in
California to
the group
behind
#KONY2012,
Invisible
Children.
There's a lot
of
invisibility
going on at
the UN. Watch
this site.
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