On
DRC
Army Rapes,
Robinson Cites
Zero, Shelling
of Rwanda
UNexplained
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 23
-- When Mary
Robinson, now
UN envoy on
the
Great Lakes,
took four
questions at
the UN on
Monday, Inner
City
Press asked
her why the UN
Mission
MONUSCO
continued to
provide
support to
Congolese Army
units implicated
in 135 rapes
in Minova
in
November. Video
here, from
Minute 5:54.
Seemingly
in
criticism of
what has come
before,
Robinson
answered that
there
will now be
stricter
implementation
of zero
tolerance. But
what about
accountability?
Already
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous, with
a long history
in the Great
Lakes
including
arguing for
the escape of
Rwanda genocidaires
into
Eastern Congo,
has seemed
exhilarated by
the M23 rebels
"licking
the wounds."
Robinson may
have caught
this disease
-- she
bragged how
Goma residents
were now happy
with MONUSCO.
Many
in Sri Lanka,
for example,
would have
been happy in
the UN came in
and killed
their
perceived
enemies. But
is that the
UN's role?
Robinson's
stakeout
ended with
Inner City
Press asking,
"What about
the
shelling of
Rwanda?" Video
here, at
11:13.
Robinson did
not
answer the
question.
Asked
by the FDLR,
Robinson said
the UN would
get around to
them. But this
stage has not.
When US envoy
Russ Feingold
was recently
interviewed
by France 24,
he said that
going after
FDLR is
imperative for
the
UN's
credibility.
Martin Kobler
has told Inner
City Press
that it
will happen.
But when?
The
UN Security
Council
scheduled a
trip in early
October to the
region.
Inner City
Press was
first to
report on it.
But when Inner
City Press inquired
and
applied to go
on the trip as
it went in
2010, this
time the
answer
was no - and
that it was
France which
was allowed to
make the
decision, as
the "pen
holder" on DRC.
This is why
the UN is
not seen as,
and is not,
impartial.
Watch this
site.
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