UNITED
NATIONS, April
7 --
Remembrances
of the 1994
Rwanda
genocide at
the
UN have an air
of falsity to
them, like
some other
things at the
UN.
Take
for example
the case of UN
employee
Callixte
Mbarushimana.
In 1994 he
is strongly
alleged to
have used his
UN vehicle and
radio and
access
to assist in
the killing of
at least three
dozen Tutsi,
including
Florence
Ngirumpatse,
the director
of personnel
at UNDP's
office in
Kigali.
What
did the UN do
about this?
They gave
Mbarushimana
other UN jobs
including in
Angola (for
which he was
not
language-qualified)
and in
Kosovo, as if
on an ethnic
cleansing road
trip. Only
when outed did
they act; then
they ended up
paying
Mbarushimana
an additional
$35,000.
The International
Criminal Court,
charging him
in connection
with other
killings in
Eastern Congo
in 2009, also
failed.
What
does this say
about the UN?
At the UN's
French-free
genocide
memorial
on April 7,
2008,
Inner City
Press asked
asked Rwanda's
then-Ambassador
Nsengimana
about
Mbarushimana's
case. "The
UN's
awareness came
very late," he
said,
diplomatically.
But
it's gotten
worse. As we asked
yesterday
and before,
what does it
say
about the UN
that Herve
Ladsous, who
in 1994 as
French deputy
permanent
representative
argued for the
evacuation of
the
genocidaires
to refuge in
Eastern Congo
through
Operation
Turquoise, is
now chief
of UN
Peacekeeping?
When
Ladsous held
his first
press
conference as
head of DPKO
on October 13,
2011, Inner
City Press
asked him
about his past
on Rwanda. Video
here, from
Minute 22:50.
All
Ladsous would
say that day
was that was
history, that
was the past.
But is it only
the past?
Ladsous
has
refused to
answer Inner
City Press
questions
about his
previous
work; most
recently last
month Tim
Witcher of
Agence France
Presse, on an
management
board of which
Ladsous used
to serve,
complained to
the UN
that Inner
City Press
asked Ladsous
a question, or
how it asked
the
question.
Click
here for
questions,
refused by
Ladsous in
2012 on
November
27, December
7
and December
18, all about
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army.
Plus
ca
change, as
they say.
Never again?
Hardly. Watch
this site.
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