UNITED
NATIONS, March
27 -- The UN's
or at least
its
Secretariat's
lack of
seriousness
about Africa,
for which it
receives most
of its funds,
is
exemplified by
the lack of
answers, even
days later, to
questions
asked about
the UN in
Africa.
The
worst culprit
is the UN
Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations
under Herve
Ladsous.
On
March 25 Inner
City Press
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
why Ladsous'
peacekeepers
in Darfur had
allowed 31
internally
displaced
people they
were
ostensibly
protecting to
be kidnapped.
Neskiry said
he would check
on that with
DPKO.
Inner
City Press
also asked if
the UN's
refugee agency
UNHCR had
transported
deposed
Central
African
Republic
president
Bozize's
family inside
the Democratic
Republic of
Congo, and if
Bozize himself
was in
Cameroon.
On
March 26,
Nesirky had no answer
back from DPKO
about its
failure to
protect the
IDPs, but he
did have an
answer from
UNHCR: that
they had
not
transported
Bozize.
It
didn't seem to
answer the
question, but
at
least unlike
DPKO it was a
response.
Inner City
Press has
followed
up: did
Ladsous'
MONUSCO fly a
Bozize family
entourage from
Zongo to
Kinshasa?
On
another of
DPKO's major
failures, the
introduction
of cholera to
Haiti along
with
un-screened
peacekeepers
from Nepal and
DPKO dumping
raw sewage
into the
drinking
water, Inner
City Press
asked about a
reported
training of
over 800
troops from 23
countries for
UN
Peacekeeping
missions --
being held in
Nepal.
Any
safeguards, to
not spread
deadly cholera
again? Nesirky
said he would
check with
DPKO.
But
by noon on
March 27,
there were no
answers. Inner
City Press
reiterated the
Darfur and
Nepal
questions;
Nesirky said
that he had
asked DPKO and
when he got
something from
them, he would
pass it on.
But
that is the
problem. On
for example
the 126 rapes
in Minova,
DRC,
from November
20 to 22 by
the Congolese
Army, which
Ladsous' DPKO
supports,
Inner City
Press asked
again and
again. Ladsous
refused to
answer, directing
his spokesman
on December 18
to seize the
UNTV
microphone to
avoid the
question.Video
here.
The
Department of
Public
Information
tells Inner
City Press it
spoke to
Ladsous'
spokesman, but
nothing has
been said
publicly about
it, and
Ladsous still
refuses Inner
City Press'
questions
about the
deadline
he supposedly
set for
suspending
support to two
unidentified
rapist
units. But
when?
So
Inner City
Press on March
27 asked
Nesirky, when
is the
deadline, has
any support of
the units been
suspended?
Nesirky said
he would check
with DPKO.
Right. Watch
this site.
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