Rejecting
UNSC, Former
UN Official
Kapila
Supports Armed
Struggle
in Sudan
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 22 --
By the UN on
Tuesday night
at the Museum
of
Tolerance
former UN
official
Mukesh Kapila
told an
audience of
about
50 to support
the armed
struggle in
Sudan.
Kapila
spoke candidly
and from the
heart,
criticizing
among others
Kofi
Annan and
George
Clooney. He
also
repeatedly
denounced
"intellectual
prostitutes...
one here in
New York and
one in
Boston,"
saying these
may have been
bought, with
money,
by Bashir.
On supporting
the armed
struggle,
Kapila said a
second time, I
support them,
I say it
openly.
He
was promoting
his book,
"Against a
Tide of Evil."
The
sponsors
apologize that
the book was
not available
for sale,
suggesting the
audience go on
Amazon and
find it.
Kapila
screened two
videos, one
for the book,
the other shot
for Aegis
Trust in
Southern
Kordofan and
Blue Nile
states this
year.
These
films were
disturbing,
showing people
living in
caves hiding
from
Antonov
bombings. An
SPLM-North
general
explained that
Bashir seeks
to drive
people from
the land by
bombing.
Kapila
went further,
accusing the
aid industry
of doing
Bashir's work
for
him. If you
make food
unavailable,
people have to
flee.
Inner
City Press
asked Kapila,
as it previously
asked UK
Ambassador
Mark Lyall
Grant, why
he thought
current UN
Humanitarian
chief Valerie
Amos has
openly asked
for cross
border aid
into Syria but
not into
Sudan.
(Lyall Grant
told Inner
City Press he hoped
that the
agreement on
Syria would
break the
logjam on
Sudan. It
hasn't.)
Kapila said he
had worked for
Amos in the
past, that
they had done
cross border
aid without
asking for
government
permission in
Iraq,
Afghanistan,
Cambodia. Why
ask for
permission
now?
He
said now polio
has emerged,
clearly
threatening
international
peace
and security.
But he told
anti-Bashir
Sudanese in
the audience
not to
count on the
Security
Council. If
you can raise
money for
weapons, he
told them, do
it. Bashir is
buying
weapons.
He
said Bashir
didn't
negotiate with
John Garang
because of the
Security
Council. He
cited US
support "then"
for South
Sudan, but
said that
won't happen
again. Don't
count on
celebrity
protesters, he
said, it's
like a sugar
rush. When the
doughnut is
finished you
feel
low.
The audience
was
supportive;
Kapila pointed
out two of his
former special
assistants who
will work with
the UN. An
audience
member
completed his
sentence, that
Bashir had not
tried to bribe
him, but had
"tried to
seduce him." A
diplomat
turned to Inner
City Press
surprised.
Indirectly,
Inner City
Press inferred
and whispered:
indirectly
seduced.
He
closed by
telling a
soft-spoken
Sudanese
questioner he
was wasting
his time,
asking why the
international
community is
not helping.
He
said the UN
has
out-sourced
Darfur
negotiations
to a regional
organization,
to a high
level panel
led by a
former
president.
What
can you
expect, he
asked. What
indeed. Watch
this site.
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