By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 25
-- For its new
Ebola response
mission, UN
official Tony
Banbury said
on September
25 “we're
moving 470
four
by four
vehicles” into
the impacted
zone of
Liberia,
Sierra Leone
and Guinea.
Inner
City Press
asked Banbury
if these
vehicles are
all coming
from
existing UN
Peacekeeping
missions.
Banbury
replied, “some
peacekeeping
missions are
downsizing
[so] all of
them are
coming from
peacekeeping
missions.”
As
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported a
week ago, as
the final
point
in an
otherwise
positive
profile of
this UN
mission's
lightening
speed, the
UN is seeking
to withdraw
vehicles from
its mission in
Darfur,
where it is
also accused
by
whistleblowers
of covering up
continued
killing of
civilians.
The
UN seems to
have no
problem
pulling its
vehicles and
forces out of
Darfur - the
only problem
is getting the
government in
Khartoum to
agree to big
Western
transport
planes to fly
into Darfur to
move the
vehicles.
Banbury
continued
that “some are
very close to
the end of
their
serviceable
life for the
UN. The
requirement in
some cases is
for burial
parties,
to transport
corpses.”
Banbury
said
the UN is told
by doctors
that “after
use for that
purpose for
a length of
time, it
should be
burned.”
So
the UN is
bringing
peacekeeping
vehicles from
Darfur, to
transport
corpses in and
them burn
them. Watch
this site.
Footnote:
Here is a copy
of the
recruitment
message for
UNMEER sent
out within the
UN, obtained
by Inner City
Press:
UNDSS
Urgent Request
for UN wide
staff surge
for UNMEER -
First Wave to
deploy by
Monday 29
September 2014
DISTRIBUTION
To:
UNSMS (Travel
Advisory
Distribution
List)
UNDSS
International
Field Staff
UNDSS Local
Field Staff
UNDSS-NY
DHSSS Chiefs
All Security
Focal Points
&
Alternate
Security Focal
Points
UN
Departments,
Agencies,
Funds and
Programmes
Dear
Colleagues,
Please find
attached an
urgent request
for staff
interested in
forming part
of the Surge
Team for the
United Nations
Mission for
Ebola
Emergency
Response
(UNMEER) for
your
information
and action as
necessary.
The magnitude
of this crisis
and the
unprecedented
nature of this
situation
demands
effective
action on the
ground
quickly. The
obstacles
ahead, to
contain the
outbreak,
prevent
further spread
of the virus
and help
affected
communities
and nations to
recover, are
formidable. It
is for these
reasons that
the
Secretary-General
activated the
UN system wide
crisis
framework and
took
unprecedented
steps to
ensure that
the UN
responds as
one at this
time of great
need.
Please note
the deadline
for
applications
is 24
September 2014
Best regards,
24/7
Communications
Centre
UN Department
of Safety and
Security
UN Operations
and Crisis
Centre
United Nations
Secretariat
, 
