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Four
Peacekeepers
Killed in
Darfur, UNSC
Yet to Speak,
Ladsous Double
Standards
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 14,
updated --
Four UN
peacekeepers
have been
killed since
Friday in two
separate
attacks in
Darfur, and as
of Monday
morning
the UN
Security
Council has
not issued
even its
standard press
statement -
why not?
Imagine
for
moment that
four, even
one, UN
individual
were killed in
Syria as
part of the
chemical
weapons
mission with
the OPCW. How
fast would
the Council
issue a
statement
denouncing it?
Would it wait
from
Friday until
Monday and
counting? It
seems
unlikely.
So
is death of
peacekeepers
in Africa, in
these
instances one
from
Zambia then
three from
Senegal,
simply more
accepted? Does
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous treat
all such
incidents
equally and
impartially?
In
the same time
frame in
Eastern Congo,
not only Ladsous'
envoy in
Kinshasa
Martin Kobler
but then
Dublin-based
Mary Robinson
put out
statement condemning
the firing at
-- without
hitting -- a
MONUSCO
helicopter.
They said it
was from
territory held
by the M23
rebels.
Meanwhile
the
deadly attacks
in Darfur are
attributed to
no group; no
group is
accused. Ladsous
met with
Sudan's Omar
al Bashir in
July and has
yet
to answer what
was
accomplished.
Ladson
refuses to
answer Press
questions
about mass
rape by his
partners in
the Congolese
Army (click
here video
compilation
and here
for UK
coverage).
Ladsous
refused to
answer and
then the UN
mis-represented
whether
his DPKO
screens
peacekeepers
for cholera,
after its
introduction
to Haiti
killed 8,300
people and
counting.
But
what about
these four
peacekeepers
now killed in
Darfur, after
the
eight killed
in July? Watch
this site.
Update:
on
October 14,
ICP learned
of "silence"
on a draft
press
statement
until 1 pm,
asked;
past 2 pm this
(boilerplate)
came out:
Subject:
UN
Security
Council Press
Statement on
attacks on
UNAMID
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Mon, Oct
14, 2013 at
2:08 PM
Security
Council
Press
Statement on
attacks on
UNAMID
The
members of the
Security
Council
condemned in
the strongest
terms the
attack by
unidentified
armed
assailants on
an African
Union-United
Nations Hybrid
Operation in
Darfur
(UNAMID)
military
observer in El
Fasher, North
Darfur, on 11
October, in
which a
Zambian
military
observer was
killed, and
the attack by
unidentified
armed
assailants
on a UNAMID
convoy near El
Geneina, West
Darfur, on 13
October, in
which three
Senegalese
peacekeepers
were killed
and one was
wounded.
The
members of the
Security
Council
expressed
their
condolences to
the
families of
the military
observer and
peacekeepers
killed in the
attacks, as
well as to the
Governments of
Zambia and of
the Republic
of Senegal,
and to UNAMID.
They called on
the Government
of Sudan
swiftly to
investigate
the incidents
and bring the
perpetrators
to
justice.
The
members of the
Security
Council
reiterated
their full
support for
UNAMID and
called on all
parties in
Darfur to
cooperate
fully with
the mission.
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