On
Congo Rapes,
Ladsous'
Policy Is 3
Strikes &
MAYBE You're
Out, Botching
Ban Ki-moon's?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
9 -- For 126
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese Army
with which the
UN partners,
the Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations
under Herve
Ladsous has
adopted a
policy of
three strikes
and MAYBE
you're out, it
emerged on
Friday, March
8.
After
Ladsous
refused
questions from
Inner City
Press about
the rapes on
November
27, December
7 and December 18, on February 6 he
told Inner
City Press
that the UN
knew the
identities of
the major of
the
perpetrators.
But
then, when
Inner City
Press asked
follow-up
questions, the
UN
insisted it
would not act
until the
Congolese
investigation
was
finished:
essentially, a
rape grace
period, as
Inner City
Press
dubbed
it.
After
Inner City
Press on
March 5 asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon about
Ladsous' rape
grace period,
suddenly on March
7 DPKO
summoned in
friendier
scribes
and told them
that the UN
wrote to the
Congolese
authorities on
February 4
setting a
deadline for
them to take
action.
These
slavish
stories
appeared, for
example by Ladsous'
lapdog Tim
Witcher of
AFP,
without
identifying
the Congolese
Army
units at issue
or what the
deadline was.
On March 8,
Inner City
Press
asked
Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
to explain
this
“information”
and how it was
given out.
By
DPKO's choice,
Nesirky said,
adding that a
second “final”
letter
to the
Congolese
authorities
had been sent
February 18.
But when
Inner City
Press asked if
“final” meant
that support
to the units
had at last
been
suspended,
Nesirky said
no.
So
Ladsous has
turned Ban
Ki-moon's
claimed Human
Rights Due
Diligence
Policy into
three strikes
and MAYBE
you're out.
Ladsous has
debased
his chosen
lapdogs into
writing
stories
without basic
information,
nor any
notation that
the missing
information
was requested
but
withheld.
Why
did Ladsous on
February 6
take Inner
City Press'
question about
the
rapes and say
the UN knew
the identity
of the
majority of
the
perpetrator --
but NOT say
that a letter
was sent on
February 4?
Why
did Ban
Ki-moon not
know or say
this in
responding to
Inner City
Press'
question at
his Security
Council
stakeout
session about
the
Congo?
Why
then did DPKO
on March 7
rush to tell
scribes who
had never
asked
about the
rapes about
the month-old
February 4
letter, but
not the
February 18
“final”
letter? What
has happened
since?
Three
strikes and
you're out
might be
applied to
Ladsous. Click
here to view
the first,
beta film
#LADSOUS2013.
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