As Urquhart
Passes His Ideas To Stop Genocide Ignored By
Guterres Who Bans Press
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN Gate
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UN Gate, Jan 3 -- Amid news of the
death of Brian Urquhart, here from the archive
of Inner City Press, published while it
covered the UN daily from inside before being
roughed up and banned
on the orders of current corrupt
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming, here below is Inner City Press'
story about Urquhart's idea of a UN Emergency
Peace Service. The UN's decline to Guterres,
who not only allowed but helps cover up a genocide
in Cameroon, could not be more stark. Another
story is here.
Rest in peace.
From the Inner City
Press archives:
To have 12,000 soldiers ready to deploy in 48
hours to zones where genocide is beginning:
that is the proposal made by UN eminence
gris Sir Brian Urquhart and others in a
new 100-page book, "A UN Emergency Peace
Service."
The cost of the
force is estimated at $2 billion to start, and
then $900 million a year. The personnel would
be recruited one-by-one; the proponents
envision them drawn from individuals who might
be queasy about serving in a national army,
but would embrace an international force whose
interventions would be legitimized by the UN.
But by whom at the UN? The response to this
Inner City Press question was essentially,
"the Security Council." But since it was the
Security Council, and in particularly the
current hegemon loudly crying for reform,
which blocked the expansion of the UN force in
Rwanda in the Spring of 1994, why would having
these UNEPS troops on standby solve the type
of sordid real politik that allowed
the Rwandan genocide to accelerate?
Rwanda per UNHCR
Inner City Press asked what the proposed force
would do for example about arresting the
Lord's Resistance Army's Joseph Kony and
Vincent Otti, or about freeing the seven UN
peacekeepers, nationals of Nepal, who have
been captives of Peter Karim in Ituri for 19
days now. The proponents didn't answer.
On the one hand,
the report's main author called UNEPS a "law
enforcement unit." [Now, it's Guterres who
should be arrested.]
Inner City Press asked Sir Brian Urquhard if
he wanted to comment on the John Bolton and
Mark Malloch Brown dust-up. Sir Brian
gracefully declined. In his conclusion
he slyly touched on the debate, saying that
the failure in the past to create a standby UN
intervention force was a more serious reform
than is currently being so loudly discussed.
It's also worth noting that the current Deputy
Secretary General's speech included the
relatively lower cost of UN peacekeeping
operations to U.S. incursions as one of the
reasons the UN is needed. More nitty gritty,
Sir Brian mentioned that he had not been in
the UNCA Club for twenty five years; he
perused what he called the "memorabilia" on
the wall. Asked about the book series on the
intellectual
history of the United Nations, in which he
is much quoted, Sir Brian said he planned on
reading the books soon.
We're sure he did.
On his way out he told Inner City
Press that he just can't comment on the
dust-up but that one of the arguments for the
UNEPS is that the UN has for too long been
portrayed as impotent. "Why not have a first
rate force?" Why not, indeed. Rest in
peace.
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