UNITED
NATIONS, May
30 -- How does
the UN cover
up mass rape
by its
partners?
Most
recently on
May 29, when
Inner City
Press asked
the
UN's Herve
Ladsous about
135 counted
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army, Ladsous
said, "you
know I don't
respond to
you."
Video
here.
Inner
City Press
encouraged him
to pretend
someone else,
less critical
of
his record,
had asked the
question and
provide an
update. But he
did
not.
On
May 30, the Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations
rather than
put
online a
transcript of
Ladsous' press
conference as
it did in
February,
put online
only a "summary"
-- which made
no
mention of
Minova, or
rape, or
Ladsous'
refusal to
answer.
This
is like some
dictatorial
countries:
they simply
erase the
question.
Ladsous tried
this before,
asking UNTV to
edit out the
final portion
of a stakeout
so that Inner
City Press'
question --
which he
refused
to answer --
could not be
heard.
It
happened on
December 18,
2012, when Ladsous directed his spokesman to
seize the UNTV
microphone
to try to keep
Inner City
Press from
asking
a question
about the
Minova rapes.
Video
here.
And
now, they
reverse
previous
practice and
don't release
a transcript,
but only a
summary which
does not
mention the
135 rapes.
In
fact, there
may have been
more than 135
rapes. On May
30 Inner City
Press asked
Ban Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesperson
Eduardo Del
Buey about
a report of 88
rapes in
Minova -- and
for the update
on
accountability
it had asked
Ladsous for
the day
before.
Del
Buey said the
update would
now start
being sought.
The wheels
didn't
start the day
before, when
Ladsous was
asked?
Apparently
not. It's a
cover up, you
see. A cover
up in plain
sight and with
the implicit
approval of
Ladsous'
bosses, the
Secretary
General
and.... guess
who?
Watch this
site.
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