Failures
of
DPKO Belatedly
Linked to Ladsous
by RTL &
AFP, Au
Revoir?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, May 17
-- UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous
has allowed
civilians to
be killed with
no reaction.
But when some
of this litany
of failure of
his Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations was
publicly
presented
to the UN Fifth
(Budget)
Committee on
May 16, it was
typed up without
even
mentioning the
person
responsible,
Ladsous, by a
wire
demonstrably
engaged in
censorship.
This was
noted; now a
French report
of RTL
"avec AFP"
which belatedly
DOES mention
Ladsous: but
only to type
his defensive
quotes. Still,
when even the French
wire which has
tried to get
the
investigative
Press thrown
out for its
critical coverage
of Ladsous links
him to his
failures, it
could
belatedly be
the beginning
of the
end.
The UK New
Statesman
already reported
last Fall on
Ladsous'
refusal to
answer
Press
questions
about his
failures.
Today's French
account emphasizes
that the UN
report does
not criticize
Ladsous'
missions in
Mali (begun by
the French
Serval force
initially
without
Security
Council
approval), nor
in Central
African
Republic --
where the
French
Sangaris force
initially
disarmed the Muslim
ex Seleka
leaving Muslim
civilians
"vulnerable"
in the UN's
Navi Pillay's
understated
analysis.
But it easily
could have: in
Mali, UN Peacekeepers
stood by as
their
"partners" in
the Malian
army shot unarmed
protesters by
an airport in
North Mali,
where France
is now in line
to get paid by
other UN
member states
to provide
"air field
services."
And Ladsous'
scribes have
yet to link
him to or
question him
about his
refusal to
implement the
UN's supposed
Human Rights
Due Diligence
Policy and cut
support to the
Congolese
Army's 41st
and 391st Battalions
after only two
soldiers were
convicted of
the 130 rapes
at Minova in November
2012.
That is why
this coverage
is accelerating:
the person put
in charge by
an ostensibly
public organization
of over
100,000 people
with guns is
so
unaccountable
as to outright
refuse to
answer
critical press
questions, for
example in
April about
the Hutu FDLR,
here.
In any other
public organization,
or private sector
company, such
a "leader"
would be
relieved of
responsibility.
How has the UN
fallen this
low? The same
can be asked
of the UN
refusing to
accept its
responsibility
for UN Peacekeeping
bringing
cholera to
Haiti.
And why even
just this
month has
there been no
explanation of
Ladsous
procuring
drones for
Mali without
the required
approvals --
Inner City
Press has
asked three times
-- or for Kyiv
using inside
Ukraine "UN"
marked
helicopters
(Inner City
Press has asked
four times, more
here)?
Even with these
omissions, consider
from
the
report
these since
Ladsous took
over the
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations in
2011:
August
- September
2012: Attacks
on civilians
by armed group
in Katoyi,
North Kivu
(MONUSCO)
Killed:
>112.
Action under
Ladsous? No.
After: Human
rights
investigations
launched
4
January 2013
Intercommunal
fighting over
disputed
access to gold
mine
(UNAMID)
Killed: 100
Action under
Ladsous? No.
After:
Government
officials
transported to
area to
“defuse
tensions”...
8
February 2013
Attack on
community in
Wangar,
Jonglei State
by armed
elements from
rival
community
(UNMISS).
Killed:
>100.
Action
under Ladsous?
No. After:
Investigation
launched.
Communities
and
national
authorities
actively
engaged to
“prevent
retaliation.”
3-6
April 2013
Intercommunal
fighting in
parts of
Central and
Southern
Darfur
(UNAMID)
Killed:
>100.
Action under
Ladsous? No.
Aftter:
Inter-agency
assessment
mission
protected,,.
July
2013
Intercommunal
violence in
several
locations in
Pibor County
(UNMISS)
Killed:
>328 Action
under Ladsous?
No. After:
Investigation
launched....
22-30
July 2013
Intercommunal
fighting in
Central Darfur
(UNAMID)
Killed:
150 Action
under Ladsous?
No. After:
Humanitarian
aid to
displaced
civilians
facilitated
8-22
August 2013
Intercommunal
fighting in
Eastern Darfur
(UNAMID)
Killed:
500-600 Action
under Ladsous?
No. After:
“Technical and
logistical
support”
provided...
And
this is not
even including
the more
recently
failures in
South Sudan,
and rapes by
Ladsous'
partners in
the Congolese
Army in
Minova, and
subsequent
impunity. Ladsous refused to answer Press
questions
on any
of
this. Why
is he still in
his post?
#Ladsous2014.
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site.
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