UNITED
NATIONS, July
18 -- A day
after Inner
City Press asked
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
about the UN
mission
MONUSCO
letting the
Congolese Army
use its
position to
conduct
offensive
operations,
Ban has just
issued a
statement that
"MONUSCO has
not been
involved in
the
hostilities.”
But
Rwanda's
Ministry of
Defense says,
“two bombs
were shelled
on
Rwanda
territory from
BM 21 located
at Carriere,
in Mugunga 12
kms
from Goma. The
BM 21 is
manned by
gunners of 41
Commando Bn of
Col
Didier,
Commando Bde
commanded by
Col Mamadou
Ndala. The
Commando Bde
is collocated
with MONUSCO.”
"Collocated”
means
“located with”
-- just what
Inner City
Press asked
about on
July 17. If
true, how can
this be
consistent
with not being
“involved
in the
hostilities”?
Rwanda
is a member of
the Security
Council, and
posed
questions to
UN
Peacekeeping
chief during
the last
closed door
consultations
on
MONUSCO, as
exclusively
reported by
Inner City
Press.
Ladsous
has
not answered;
he has also
dodged the
Press, most
recently
slipping out
of a session
on Cote
d'Ivoire where
he lavished
praise
on that
country,
consist as
always with
the position
of France,
which
he represented
on the
Security
Council as
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
during the
Rwanda
genocide in
1994. He
has refused to
answer
questions
about that,
as well.
Ladsous'
MONUSCO's
denial are not
reserved for
Rwanda - it
has also gone
on
the offensive,
so to speak,
with the aid
group Medecins
Sans
Frontieres,
dismissing its
claims about a
lack of
impartiality.
In
that case as
in this, what
Ban Ki-moon
says in New
York in not
consonant with
what MONUSCO
is saying. Who
stands in
between?
Ladsous. When
will he answer
questions?
Beyond
also refusing
for 19 days
now to state
which FARDC
units he
supports,
Ladsous
is involved in
at least two
more clusters
of current
controversies
on
which he is
refusing
questions.
In
Sudan, who
killed the
seven UN
peacekeepers
in Darfur and
why
did Ladsous
brag about
keeping the
body of a
slain
assailant, in
seeming
contravention
of the Geneva
Conventions
Ladsous won't
answer about.
In
South Sudan, why did
his
peacekeepers
do nothing as
a column of
fighters
passed in
Jonglei,
and is their
provision of
gasoline
subject to
Ban's supposed
Human
Rights Due
Diligence
Policy? Watch
this site.
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