Exclusive: UN
Whistleblower
Tells ICP of
Abuses in CAR,
After Ladsous
on
R&R
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, June 17
--
Sexual
exploitation
and abuse by
UN
peacekeepers
under Herve
Ladsous in the
Central
African
Republic
continues, an
internal UN
email obtained
and
exclusively
published by
Inner City
Press shows.
Click here.
Now,
after UN
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric not
only didn't
explain why
his Office
comments on
some leaked
emails and not
others, but
gloried in it,
saying "I do
whatever I
want," Inner
City Press is
publishing a
second email
sent to Inner
City Press by
a UN
whisteblower:
"Matthew:
MINUSCA is
full of
corruption and
bad practices.
The Head of
the Electoral
Division,
Mathieu BILE,
raised
millions from
donors for the
elections, and
has not been
able to
justify it.
Most of these
millions are
from the EU.
We have
documents
proving that
donors didn’t
want to give
more money for
the elections
and about the
financial gap
for the
elections.
MINUSCA
was forced to
open an
investigation
because some
UN staff
issued a
complaint. The
CDU –Conduct
and Discipline
Unit- is
dedicated to
hide
corruption and
not to make
any kind of
justice. Since
the very
beginning they
were
protecting
him. He also
faced formal
accusations of
abuse of
authority,
gender and
racial
discrimination,
intimidation
to his
subordinates
-we have
audios-, and
CDU created a
lot of
difficulties
to the
complainants.
The
audios were
not accepted,
and CDU in
Bangui
initially
didn’t
register the
financial
reports
provided by
the
complainants
and also hid
other
complaints.
The
complainants
provided a lot
of proofs and
evidences, but
CDU didn’t
process most
of them.
Moreover, the
mission and
the SRSG were
aware about
his lack of
competence
because
elections were
a complete
disaster and
they must
repeat
elections many
times. The
elections were
delayed and
annulated
because of
irregularities,
lack of funds,
lack of
payment to the
national staff
that caused
lot of
demonstrations
in the country
to claim for
their
payments,
exclusions of
voters to the
registration
process,
delays and
logistic
problems.
The
legislative
elections were
totally
annulated at
the beginning,
once they
repeated them
were annulated
in a group of
regions, again
repeated and
annulated in a
partial way,
so many
annulations by
the
Constitutional
Court. The
SRSG was quite
aware about
this and
chaired the
meetings to
face these
issues; he
also faced the
lack of funds
with the
Security
Council. We
may prove all
of this.
Despite
all these
issues the
SRSG has
recently
renewed his
contract for
one year more
and to
organize the
municipal
elections for
2017.
Moreover, the
complainants
reported
previously
about the
dominance of
the Ivorians
-his
nationality-
in the
electoral
division, as
they are
majority and
control the
main positions
-Head of
Electoral
Division,
Officer in
Charge, Legal,
Field
Coordinator-.
In the recent
renewal of the
contracts
still there is
the same
majority of
Ivorians and
the
complainants
are out.
Mathie
BILE’s
superior, the
Deputy SRSG
and country
resident
coordinator,
Aurelien
AGBENONCY, was
accused in the
national media
and during the
elections to
have seen
visiting in
his house one
of the
Presidential
candidates,
having his
wife among his
friends in
Facebook, and
he also rented
his house.
After this new
was published
the SRSG
maintained
him, but he
disappeared
from the
meetings and
later on he
was nominated
minister of
foreign
affairs in his
country
–Benin- and
left UN. But
just before
leaving he got
money from a
US donation
for the
elections that
didn’t justify
and we have
proofs.
Mathie
BILE did just
the same
disaster
organizing
elections in
other
countries
before
(delays,
logistic
problems,
exclusion of
voters in the
registration
process,
irregularities,
annulations),
and he also
appears in
wikileaks
cables. Even
this UN didn’t
fire him, he
just renewed
his contract
with his
Ivorians as
heads of the
main areas. He
seems to be
well
protected."
What is the
policy of Ban
Ki-moon's UN
and spokesman
of providing
comment on
leaked emails?
On answering
questions? On
not
dissembling to
evict the
critical
Press?
The
first email
among other
things recites
accusations by
the CAR
authorities of
the UN using
prostitutes.
Despite the
apparently for
public
consumption
treatment of
the issue in
the email, UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous has
said there
would be fewer
outright rapes
if his
peacekeepers
had more
"R&R." Video here.
So
Ladsous bears
some
responsibility
and so does
Ban Ki-moon,
who fired
Senegalese
Babacar Gaye
rather than
the person
responsible,
Herve Ladsous.
Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who
selectively
refuses to
answer about
"leaked"
documents,
which he
called a UN
"Aide Memoire"
to the Senate
Foreign
Relations
Committee
about the
eviction of
Inner City
Press and a
report paid
for by the UN
/ global
taxpayers,
purported on
June 16 to
give an update
on sexual
abuse and
expoitation in
CAR - but he
did not
disclose this.
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