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Before
Akobo
Attack, UN
Staff's Tweet
of Nuer Youth
Mobilizing
Disappeared
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 20 --
Before the
killing of two
UN
peacekeepers
and a still
unknown number
of civilians
in Akobo,
South Sudan,
which Indian
ambassador
Asoke Mukerji
told Inner
City Press
came from 1500
Lou Neur
youth, a
Danish UN
staffer there
named Mathilde
Kaalund-Jørgensen
tweeted about
"Lou Nuer
youth
mobilising in
big numbers"
in Akobo.
But
the tweet, and
the whole
Twitter
account,
quickly
disappeared.
Inner City
Press reported
on it November
8, and
when UN envoy
to South Sudan
Hilde Johnson
came to the
Security
Council on
November 18,
Inner City
Press asked
her about the
disappeared
Akobo / Nuer
tweet.
Johnson
replied
it never
should have
been tweeted.
More should be
said --
including the
rights where
appropriate
for
whistleblowers
to make things
public that
the UN may be
covering up,
for example on
having brought
cholera to
Haiti.
Also
at the
November 18 UN
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
for an answer
to a question
it asked last
week, related
to the UN
bringing
cholera to
Haiti and then
refusing to be
accountable. Does
UN
Peacekeeping
in any of its
missions have
established
the Standing
Claims
Commission
provided for
it its SOFA or
Status of
Forces
Agreements?
Haq
said he had
asked DPKO --
whose main
spokesperson
Kieran Dwyer
stood to the
side of
Johnson's
stakeout --
but that it is
"not a yes or
no question."
Really? Does
DPKO have any
Commissions -
if you can't
say yes after
multiple days,
is the answer
"no"?
Finally
the UN
admitted: no.
UN
Peacekeeping
as a whole is
declined into
a stonewalling
organization
under Herve
Ladsous: click
here for video, here
for UK
coverage.
Each SRSG --
and, in light
of the
disappeared
Akoba tweet
and subseqent
events there,
each UN
staffer -- is
free to be
more
responsive,
and should. Watch this site.
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