UN
"Without
Accountability"
on Haiti
Cholera
Cited by Yale,
Spread by
Ladsous
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 6 --
With the UN
still saying
all claims it
brought
cholera
to Haiti
are "not
receivable,"
the Yale
School of
Public Health
and Yale Law
School have
joined the
chorus
concluding
that the UN is
both
responsible
and out of
control.
Their
study "Peacekeeping
without
Accountability"
-- an accurate
moniker for
the tenure of
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row atop DPKO
-- says that
"The U.N. must
work to
re-establish
its
institutional
legitimacy in
Haiti.
The
role of the
U.N. and
MINUSTAH in
causing the
epidemic has
created deep
anger among
the
general public
in Haiti, and
the U.N.’s
refusal to
take any
responsibility
for its
actions has
eroded its
already
fragile
reputation in
the country."
This
erosion is
global. How
can the UN
preach "rule
of law" to
others when it
tersely
dismisses all
legal claims
against
itself?
Herve Ladsous,
the
very face of
impunity, has
repeatedly
refused to
answer
critical Press
questions. See
compilation
video here.
This has
extended to
his DPKO's
support to
Congolese Army
units
implicated in
the mass rapes
at Minova in
November,
2012.
The
study, done in
collaboration
with the
Haitian
Environmental
Law
Association
(Association
Hatïenne de
Droit de
L’Environment),
notes that
former
"Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
acknowledged
that the
'international
responsibility'
of the U.N.
for the
activities of
its forces 'is
an attribute
of its
international
legal
personality
and its
capacity to
bear
international
rights and
obligations."
But
today's UN
under Ladsous
and ultimately
Ban Ki-moon,
along with the
dismissal of
the Haiti
cholera
claims, have
yet to
publicly
acknowledge
that their
forces,
particularly
but not only
their new
Intervention
Brigade in the
Eastern Congo,
are parties to
an armed
conflict and
subject to the
Geneva
Conventions.
In
fact, Ladsous
has even
bragged about
"keeping a
body" while
he was in
Sudan, where
he met without
transparency
with
ICC-indicted
Omar al Bashir.
"Peacekeeping
without
Accountability"
indeed.
Legal
footnote: the
report cites LaGrand
(Ger. v. U.S.),
2001 ICJ Rep.
466.
It's time for
litigation.
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