UNITED
NATIONS, April
11 -- While
the UN has
still provided
little
information
about how five
Indians, four
Kenyans and
three South
Sudanese
nationals
associated
with UNMISS
were killed
this week.
But
while
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
offered his condolences to
the
governments of
India and
South Sudan,
he did not
mention Kenya.
Nor,
in a tweet
this morning,
did the
government of
South Sudan.
Why not?
Inner
City Press on
April 10 asked
Ban's deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey:
Inner
City Press: if
you have any
more details
on how the
incident took
place that
killed the
peacekeepers,
but I notice
that the
Secretary-General’s
statement
yesterday
offered his
condolence to
the the
Governments of
India and of
South Sudan.
And today it
has
been announced
by Kenya that
four of their
nationals were
killed in
this attack.
Somaybe he
didn’t know at
the time, is
there some
distinction?
The Security
Council,
meanwhile,
only condoled
with the
Government of
India, not of
South Sudan.
Can you
explain why
the
Secretary-General,
was he unaware
that four
Kenyans were
killed? Is
there some
legal
distinction
between their
death and the
other
deaths? What’s
the
distinction?
Deputy
Spokesperson
Del Buey: No,
there is no
legal
distinction.
All of
the deaths are
absolutely
tragic and
completely
unacceptable,
Matthew. The
situation is
that our
policy is not
to identify
nationalities
or names of
people until
next of kin
have been…
until
they have been
identified and
next of kin
have been
notified. As
far
as I know, the
next of kin
are in the
process of
being notified
right
now. If and
when we have a
statement to
make, we will
make a further
statement
then.
Inner
City Press:
But he did
offer his
condolence to
India
yesterday,
does
that that mean
that all five
families have
been --
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Because all
the Indian
families had
been informed,
yes.
But
now the next
day, still no
condolence to
Kenya. The
government has
already said
four of its
citizens were
killed. Ban's
condolences to
governments do
not name the
deceased. So
what's going
on?
Meanwhile
the
Government of
South Sudan tweeted
“We extend our
condolences to
the Government
of #India,
UNMISS &
the families
of the
deceased.”
Does
that mean the
families of
the deceased
Kenyans, too?
Why one
government and
not the other?
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