By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 7 --
With the UN of
Ban Ki-moon
and Herve
Ladsous still
denying all
claims that
Ladsous' UN
Peacekeeping
brought
cholera to
Haiti and
killed 8,000
people, on
August 7 after
Inner City
Press again
asked Ban's
spokesperson
about it,
Ladsous'
predecessor Jean-Marie
Guehenno
tweeted this:
"Peacekeepers
have
done a lot for
Haiti, but UN
needs to come
clean on
cholera
crisis."
This
is a former
chief of UN
Peacekeeping.
So where is
Herve Ladsous
on this? He's
out of
headquarters,
after
refusing Press
questions
then spoon-feeding
spin to a
friendly
scribe.
August 7 video
here.
On
Haiti, here's
Inner City
Press' question
from the
August 7 UN
noon briefing:
Inner
City Press: on
Haiti first.
There is a
report that I
am sure that
you have seen,
it came out of
the Law School
and the
Medical School
at Yale
yesterday
regarding the
cholera in
Haiti, it’s a
medical and
legal analysis
that there
should have
been the
claims process
and saying
that the UN
needs to
rehabilitate
--
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky:
What’s the
question?
Inner
City Press: My
question is:
what’s your
response to
this study,
and also,
whether the
new Head of
the Office of
Legal Affairs,
whether there
is any
indication
that, you
know, like
Nicolas Michel
in the past,
but unlike Ms.
O’Brien,
whether he
will take
questions on
legal topics
such as these?
Why the claim
was was
dismissed and
what the legal
implications
are?
Spokesperson:
Well, on the
second part of
your
questions, we
just in the
past few
minutes
announced this
appointment,
so I don’t
think you
would expect
me to pass
further
judgement on
what he may or
may not wish
to do with
regard to
speaking to
the media, but
we will
certainly
convey your
wishes to him.
With regard to
the first part
of your
questions, I
don’t have
anything
further to say
beyond what we
have said in
the past. We
are obviously
aware of this
latest report.
[More
here.]
Thursday
August
8 is a UN
holiday. But
what will the
UN say about
its own former
head of
peacekeeping,
a post now
devolved to
Herve Ladsous
who was
rejected in
favor of
Guehenno, then
in favor of
Alain Le Roy,
then a third
strike in
favor of
Jerome
Bonnafont --
only to be put
in the job by
France after
Bonnafont
bragged about
getting it?
The
flaw was that
Ladsous
has a record,
of arguing for
the escape of
the genocidaires
from Rwanda
into Eastern
Congo. How
can he lead an
(all African)
intervention
brigade now in
the Congo?
Watch this
site.
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