UNITED
NATIONS, June
29 -- The new
UN Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
sanctions
report, which
Inner City
Press put
exclusively
online
earlier today,
puts
disproportionate
focus on one
armed group,
the
M23.
The
Group of
Experts accept
MONUSCO's
estimate of
FDLR troop
strength,
and appear not
to have heard
of the UN's
claimed
conditionality
policy. Even
with regard to
the Congolese
Army units
they depict
engaged in
human rights
violations,
from rape to
torture, to
mention
is made of UN
support for
the FARDC.
We
are already covered
Col. Faida
Fidel Kamulete,
the commander
of
FARDC 2nd
battalion of
601st Regiment
based at
Tongo, who
said “FARDC
and FDLR do
not fight each
other.”
Likewise
we've
covered
Col. Willy
Bonane
Habarugira
acting
commander of
FARDC
forces in the
Safisha
Operational
Zone (Ituri),
who organized
the
looting of the
UN in Bunia.
But
now consider
the filmed
torture at
Hotel Pygmy in
Mambasa town
(see
annex 44) and
“rape,
harassment,
extortion and
arbitrary
arrests”
by “soldiers
from the FARDC
905th
Regiment,
under the
command of
Col. John
Tchinyama” - Report
at Paragraph
75. The Ituri
Brigade
of MONUSCO was
right there.
What did they
do?
What
about the Mai
Mai's “Morgan
talking to
FARDC officers
on a
satellite
phone prior to
and during the
attack on
Mambasa. These
people further
informed the
Group that
allies within
FARDC guided
Morgan along
routes through
which he could
avoid
encountering
government
forces” - does
the UN still
support those
FARDC units,
which the
Report leaves
unnamed in
Paragraph
74? We
are asking.
The
135 rapes in
Minova by two
units of the
Congolese Army
have not
resulted in
any suspension
of UN support,
despite only
two arrests
being made for
the rapes.
This, like the
inclusion of a
listed child
soldier
recruiter into
the new UN
mission in
Mali, is the
responsibility
of Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth French
head of UN
Peacekeeping
in a row.
Ladsous
in
his previous
incarnation as
French
deputy
permanent
representative
at the UN
during the
Rwanda
genocide
argued for the
escape of the
genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo.
When asked by
Inner City
Press about
it, he started
talking about
“innuendo” and
refusing
to answer
questions.
The
UN's and
Ladsous'
non-enforcement
of human
rights due
diligence and
conditionality
policies were
air brushed
from Reuters
gloss on this
report -- not
surprising,
not only
politically
but also in
light of
recent
evidence that
Reuters gives
the UN
information
the UN should
not have, here:
quid pro quo?
But
now, the
question have
been put to no
fewer than
four DPKO
spokespeople.
Watch this
site.
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