Plane
of Ethiopia
Arms Burns in
Somalia,
Sanctions
Violations
Cited, UN
Silent
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 9 --
When an
Ethiopian
military plane
full of
weapons
was burning
today on the
tarmac of the
airport in
Mogadishu,
journalists
trying to take
photographs
were refused
entry and told
to
leave. What
does the UN
have to say
about it?
It
must be noted
that the UN's
own sanctions
panel, the
Somalia
Eritrea
Monitoring
Group, in its
most recent
report at page
319 linked the
Ethiopian
National
Defense Forces
to violations
of sanctions
in
Somalia:
according
to
data received
by the
Monitoring
Group, the
Ethiopian air
force has
operated in
January and
February 2013,
three military
cargo flights
to Baidoa,
without prior
notification
of the
Committee. On
22 April
2013, the
Monitoring
Group sent a
letter to the
Government of
Ethiopia
requesting
clarification
and additional
information,
for
which no reply
has yet been
forthcoming.
19.
Information
obtained by
the Monitoring
Group from
several UN
sources
indicates that
these flights
may be related
to supply of
military
equipment to
Ethiopian
National
Defence Forces
(ENDF)
operations on
Somali
territory, and
therefore
constitute a
potential
violation of
the arms
embargo on
Somalia.
So
will the SEMG
have access to
the plane? And
what DOES the
UN say?
The
SEMG report
also has the
UN itself
violating
sanctions. And
the UN
Mine Action
Service's
David Bax, despite
spoon-fed
attempts to
rehabilitate
him, not
only played a
role in the
sharing of
genetic
information
from bombs in
Somalia with
the US FBI,
but ran around
Mogadishu, not
only on the
day of the
attack on the
UN compound,
with
weapons of
dubious origin
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