In
South Sudan, UN
Discourages Kenyans Travel to I/O
Areas, Ban's Son in Law
Silent
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS,
February 7 – The UN system
seems intent on covering up
the disappearance of South
South opposition figures in
Kenya, where Ban Ki-moon made
his own son in law Siddharth
Chatterjee the (silent)
UN Resident Coordinator. (Here's
his recent video,
spinning nepotism at the end.)
On February
7, Inner City Press asked
Stephane Dujarric, Ban's old
spokesman, still speaking for
the UN, transcript
here:
Inner City Press:
You talked about South Sudan,
and I wanted to ask you, are
aware of an order among the UN
Humanitarian Air Service to
basically try to discourage
Kenyan nationals from going to
any IO-controlled territory
because of the capture of IO
officials in Kenya?
[Cross talk]
Spokesman: No...
Dujarric
referred to one of the UN
agencies the transition
process at which is entirely
murky. So here now is
the document leaked to Inner
City Press, put
on Scribd here.
UNHAS
Document Leaked to Inner City Press
Has UN Discouraging Kenyans' Travel
to SPLA-I/O Areas in South Su...
by Matthew
Russell Lee on Scribd
This comes
at a time when the failures of
Herve Ladsous' UNMISS are
being raised, including in
Washington, and is published
in light of danger and the UN
Spokesman refusing to answer
questions. We'll have more on
this.
On January 11
after South Sudan said that it
will not, in fact, accept the
4,000 new peacekeepers for the
Regional Protection Force,
Inner City Press asked UK
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft
about it. Video
here; UN transcript
here:
Inner City Press:
On South Sudan, the government
say they’re not going to take
the regional protection force.
What do you think the Council
can or should do?
Amb Rycroft: They
committed earlier to accept
the regional protection force.
They are obliged to accept it,
given Security Council
decisions, and we call on them
again to accept that regional
protection force in the
interest of longer term
stability in South Sudan.
When the
UN Security
Council members
met about South
Sudan on December
15, the best they
could do was
extend the mandate
of the UNMISS
mission for a
single day. Even
then, there was
already news of
UNMISS having
given arms to
warlord, or “rebel
general,” James
Koang.
Inner City
Press asked US
Ambassador
Samantha Power
about this on
December 16 and
she said she
hadn't read it. On
December 19, even
while fielding a
pre-picked
question on South
Sudan, Power still
refused to answer.
Video
here.
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