In
Darfur, UN
Says Curfew in
"Purview" of
Authorities,
Nothing
on Bombing
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 7 --
In Darfur, the
UN is spending
$1 billion a
year on a
"peacekeeping"
mission, but
what is being
accomplished?
Friday Inner
City Press
asked UN
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky about
Darfur for the
second day in
a row, this
time about
reported
aerial bombing
from Antonov
aircraft and
fighting in
West
Darfur.
Nesirky said
he would check
into it. But
he did have an
answer, to the
question Inner
City Press
asked Thursday
at the noon
briefing and
Security
Council
stakeout about
the
government's
military rule
and curfew
in North
Darfur.
The
UN's response
is that
imposing a
curfew is in
the purview of
the
authorities of
North Darfur;
the UN still
keep
patrolling.
But when
all of the
residents of
the Kassab IDP
camp were
chased out,
the UN
did nothing,
and then said
it was just an
NGO camp, not
the UN's job.
So
what is the UN
accomplishing,
or even trying
to accomplish,
with the
more than $1
billion a year
in global
taxpayers'
money it is
spending
in Darfur
every year?
Just departed
lead
envoy Ibrahim
Gambari
built a
$600,000 house
in the El
Fasher camp.
Who will
occupy it
next?
A
couple
questions have
been asked,
and one
answered, on
these topics,
here.
Watch that
(and this)
site.
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