Museveni's
"Military
Tourism" Line
Angers TCCs,
But DPKO
Silent, As on
Rape
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 10 --
After Ugandan
President
Museveni said
UN
Peacekeepers
in the Congo
are engaged in
"military
tourism,"
there was some
anger at the
UN in New York
on Monday
among large
Troop
Contributing
Countries.
But
Peacekeeping
chef Herve
Ladsous
had
nothing to
say, just as
he has refused
to answer
which units of
the
Congolese Army
his MONUSCO
mission
supports.
A
well placed
SADC source
told Inner
City Press
that the idea
of a new
troop
deployment is
not to engage
the M23, but
rather to
police the
border. Still
that could
lead to
skirmishes, it
was pointed
out.
Another
Security
Council
source, from a
country that
has signed the
Rome
Statute of the
International
Criminal
Court,
expressed to
Inner City
Press dismay
at the
"mechanism"
announcement
over the
weekend that
new ICC
prosecutor
Fatima
Bensouda is
now looking
into
indicting the
M23 and its
supporters.
Opponents
of
Joseph Kabila
get indicted
by the ICC,
from Bemba to
Bosco, the
complaint
runs. And what
has been
accomplished?
Let the ICC at
least
try an
indictment in
another
continent and
see how it
goes. Or why
not look at
Kabila or
those in his
administration,
as well?
There
was still been
no answer on
what MONUSCO
and Ladsous'
DPKO know
about
which
Congolese
units were in
Minova during
the rape of at
least 70
women in late
November, one
of whom died.
Nor will DPKO
say which
FARDC units it
works with and
supports. The
UN's Human
Rights Due
Diligence
Policy,
launched with
fanfare by Ban
Ki-moon, is
being
rendered
misleading and
meaningless by
Ladsous' DPKO.
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