UNITED
NATIONS, May
16 -- After
two weeks in
which UN
peacekeepers
were
killed in
Abyei and the
Congo, and
twice
kidnapped in
the Golan
Heights, on
Thursday the
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
of a Troop
Contribution
Country told
Inner City
Press "Ladsous
is a
loser."
Ladsous
is
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
Peacekeeping.
Ever since
Inner City
Press
raised the
issue of
Ladsous'
record during
the Rwanda
genocide, as
France's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
who argued for
and enabled
the escape of
genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo,
Ladsous has
refused to
answer Press
questions. Video here.
Later
on Thursday,
when stories
and tweets
appeared
showing that
Ladsous
had run to
friendly
scribes about
the most
recently
kidnapping of
peacekeepers,
rather even
that having
the UN send
out an e-mail
to
all
correspondents,
Inner City
Press wrote to
Ladsous' three
- yes,
three -
spokespeople,
as well as to
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
top three
spokespeople,
and the Free
UN Coalition
for Access:
"This
is a formal
request for
all
information
DPKO or the UN
has providing
about new
detention of
UN
peacekeepers
in the Golan,
and for an
explanation of
how this
information
was
disseminated
on such a
limited basis,
including in
light of DPKO
spokesperson
Dwyer's
statements at
UN World Press
Freedom Day
event. On
deadline."
From
Ladsous' main
spokesman,
Kieran Dwyer,
came this:
"I
am out of the
office until
22/05/2013. I
will be
travelling on
official
business, and
only
intermittently
checking
emails. In my
absence please
contact Ms
Anayansi
Lopez,
officer-in-charge
of the
Public Affairs
Section of
DPKO-DFS:
mobile
;
landline
917-367-9050;
lopez12 [at]
un.org.
For media
inquiries
please contact
Ms
Josephine
Guerrero,
mobile
;
landline
+1-212-963-1964;
guerreroj [at]
un.org;
or Mr
Andre-Michel
Essoungou,
mobile
;
landline:
+1-917-9400-685;
essoungou [at]
un.org"
But
from the other
five
spokespeople
written to on
deadline,
there was no
response
except one of
Ban Ki-moon's
spokespeople
referring it
back
to the
above-referenced
Josephine
Guerrero, or
"Jo" -
"Jo:
This one is
yours!"
But
nothing came
from Jo --
who, a nice
person, was
forced by
Ladsous to
scurry at a
stakeout to
find another
reporter, any
other
reporter, to
ask about
Abyei. She
couldn't find
one, and
Ladsous was
left
pretending
that Inner
City Press
wasn't asking
a question.
The
other,
Andre-Michel
Essoungou, was
debased into
seizing the UN
Television
microphone on
December 18,
2012, to try
to protect
Ladsous
from a Press
question about
then 126 (now
135) rapes by
Ladsous'
partners in
the Congolese
Army in
Minova.
Ladsous
has
debased DPKO,
and now the
wider UN. As a
major TCC has
put it,
he's "a
loser." So
when is he
leaving? Watch
this site.
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