By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 30 --
French
soldiers in
the Central
African
Republic
sexually
abused
children, and
after more
than nine
months, no
action has
been taken.
Now Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row in charge
of UN
Peacekeeping,
has made an
announcement
from the
country's
capital
Bangui: that
he will deploy
drones there.
But
who will get
the
information,
and what will
be covered up,
like the
rapes?
The
UN's own
in-house organ
UN News
Center, not
mentioning the
rapes of
course, quotes
Ladsous that
"the arrival
of attack
helicopters
and drones
would help."
The
story is more
complex. Inner
City Press has
asked the UN
questions,
below.
Yesterday's Guardian
report
focused on a
UN Office of
the High
Commissioner
for Human
Rights staffer
Anders Kompass
-- who some
media insist
on identifying
as an "aid
worker" --
saying he is
being
retaliated
against for
sharing this
information
with the
French.
As Inner City
Pres
previously
reported,
there is more
to this story
and to
Kompass, in
the public
record.
Kompass shared
information
with Morocco,
to undermine
human rights
reporting in
Western
Sahara. Inner
City Press reported
on Kompass and
this in
December;
the leaked
documents are
online.
What
is the
relationship
between the
two stories,
beyond the
UN's near
total lack of
transparency
and standards?
On April 29,
the UN came
out with a
statement that
Kompass was
suspended with
pay for
leaking a
report to
French
authorities
with the name
of victims and
witnesses.
Inner City
Press asked
UN deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
these
questions, here
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