Cote
d'Ivoire
Envoy's Week
in NY Has No
Nahibly
Answers, Exile
Ironies
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 17 --
Amid the happy
talk about
Cote d'Ivoire
in the
UN Security
Council on
Thursday,
among the
issues not
addressed was
the UN's
shameful
inaction while
internally
displaced
people in the
Nahibly IDP
camp were
killed.
Bert
Koenders, the
UN's envoy in
Abidjan, has
already
repeatedly
exonerated the
UN for its
performance.
But when Inner
City Press
asks
in New York,
it is told
that there is
still an
investigation,
perhaps
two of them.
Koenders
has
been in New
York since
last week. He
was seen on
the 38th
floor;
he was seen on
48th Street.
But still no
answers on
Nahibly.
For
now, we
publish this
alternative
FPI
Coordination
in Exile
perspective:
On
the attack of
the refugee
camp of
Nahibly, UNOCI
continues to
maintain its
figure of
"Eleven people
killed," even
though
the evidence
was made clear
that the
actual number
is far beyond,
around fifty
dead after the
discovery of
six bodies out
of a mass
grave near the
camp, which
the report
notes
(paragraph
42). The
figures given
by other
sources show a
larger number.
Why is UN
minimizing
this tragedy
by giving
wrong figures
of the deaths?
Moreover,
for
an event that
took place on
July 20, 2012,
the report
does not
seem bothered
by the fact
that so far,
no
investigation
report is
available and
this, despite
the
exhortation of
the United
Nations
independent
expert on the
situation of
human rights
and the
Assistant
Secretary-General
of the UN for
human rights
(paragraph
42). In
contrast, the
unfortunate
events of
December 31,
2012 have
already
been
investigated
and "heads"
have already
been
sacrificed.
The
slowness of
the
investigation
that indicates
the lack of
judicial
action does
not surprise
anyone. This
is the logical
continuation
of
the "victors'
justice"
established by
Ouattara since
taking
power. This is
why the report
merely say
Ouattara has
requested
follow-up
after
receiving the
report of the
national
commission of
inquiry. The
report is
silent on the
date of
receipt of the
report
(August 8,
2012)
certainly not
to be
compelled to
the conclusion
that
more than five
months later,
no legal
action has yet
been given.
And
yet, Ouattara
said the
commission had
been
established to
"put
an end to
impunity" and
that "all
those who have
done wrong
will answer
for their acts
before
justice."
Funny
fact which
deserves to be
mentioned is
that since
July 20, when
the
facts and in
the presence
of troops of
UNOCI camp
which is
located
adjacent to
the IDP camp,
there is no
survey
results: "The
government and
UNOCI lead
their separate
investigation
into these
events."
And
what is the
UN's answer?
Watch this
site.
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