UNITED
NATIONS, May
16 -- With UN
peacekeepers
repeatedly
being
kidnapped in
the Golan
Heights, and
recently
killed in
Abyei and the
Congo, Herve
Ladsous
the fourth
French chief
in a row of UN
Peacekeeping
has
allowed his
fear of the
Press to mute
the UN's
message.
More
peacekeepers
have been
grabbed in the
Golan, but
shockingly the
UN
itself put out
no
announcement.
Rather,
Ladsous
summoned a few
friendly
scribes. The
reporting was
muted. Perhaps
Ladsous is
scared.
In
the General
Assembly on
May 15, an
email was
waved from the
podium
about the UN
-- "the
highest levels
of DPKO," UN
Peacekeeping,
as it turns
out -- being
aware of the
role of Qatari
intelligence
and the Syrian
opposition
"ambassador"
in Doha
in the
previous
kidnapping of
Filipino UN
peacekeepers.
This
is a serious
charge, but
neither the UN
nor Ladsous
have answered
it.
Now when more
peacekeepers
are grabbed,
the UN says
nothing, and
Ladsous can
summon only
his few
friends.
Click
here
for a view of
Ladsous
repeatedly
refusing to
answer Press
questions
about his job:
about mass
rape by his
partners in
the
Congo, about
how will
disarm the
MNLA in Mali,
about his push
for UN
drones in
former French
colony Cote
d'Ivoire.
Why
did Ladsous
stop answering
Press
questions?
More than one
Security
Council
ambassador now
links it to
the questions
Inner City
Press
raised
about Ladsous'
role during
the Rwanda
genocide as
France's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative,
defending and
ensuring the
escape of
genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo.
It
is obvious to
many that such
a person
should never
have been put
in
charge of UN
Peacekeeping.
And beyond his
past, his
current
mis-handling
of mission in
more than one
continent cry
out for
action, or
resignation.
There is a
Twitter
hashtag, now
used as a
justification
for Ladsous'
stonewalling:
#LADSOUS2013.
There is time.
It must end.
Watch this
site.
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