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In S.
Sudan, AU
Finds No
Cooperation,
Required by
UNSC, by
UNMISS
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 27 --
The UN's
peacekeeping
mission in
South Sudan,
under Herve
Ladsous, has
been slow to
report on
crimes against
(some)
civilians,
much less to
protect them
as this month
in Leer. Inner
City Press asked on
October 26
about Leer,
and on October
27 the UN came back with
this:
"Yesterday,
Matthew you
asked about
South
Sudan.
The Department
for
Peacekeeping
Operations
says that it
is aware of
reports of
SPLA [Sudan
People’s
Liberation
Army] attacks
in Leer.
While the UN
Mission in
South Sudan
(UNMISS) does
not currently
have presence
in Leer, it is
looking at
ways to
improve its
ability to
assess the
situation and
enhance the
protection of
civilians by
establishing
longer and
more
established
presence in
southern Unity
state."
But now that
the African
Union report
has been
released,
there are more
questions for
the UN and
Ladsous to
answer.
From Paragraph
27: "the
Commission was
unable to
access any
data in the
possession of
the UNMISS
which has been
documenting
the violations
committed
since the
start of the
violence in
December 2013
— despite the
resolution of
the Security
Council
mandating it
to cooperate
with AUCISS."
So,
despite the
UN's claims
about "Rights
Up Front," not
only did
UNMISS not
comply with
general
requirements
of reporting
on harm to
civilians -
the AU says
UNMISS didn't
even comply
with UN
Security
Council
resolutions.
Who will
answer for
this? We will
be asking. And
about this,
too, on UNDP
and UNICEF:
"The
Commission
learnt that
the CPA-DDR
program was
supported by
the UNDP,
UNICEF and
UNMISS. By the
time the
program was
closed in
December 2011,
not much had
been
achieved."
An internal UN
document
leaked to
Inner City
Press, which exclusively
published it
here,
shows the high
degree of
dysfunction in
the country,
and in the UN.
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