With
UN
Blamed for S.
Sudan Killings
&
Protested in
Haiti, Saleh
Thumbs His
Nose
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 2, updated
-- The UN
speaks but
does not
follow
through. Just
around the New
Year's
weekend,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon issued
statements
about averting
violence in
South Sudan,
avoiding
reprisal
killings in
Guinea Bissau,
as well as
inflating his
role in the
Arab
Awakening.
Then
when Yemen
strongman Ali
Saleh reversed
course from
what Ban
had said Saleh
said
-- that he'd
leave Yemen
-- and said
he'd stay and
would "not
allow the
collapse of
state
institutions,"
the UN and Ban
had
nothing to
say, even when
directly asked
in writing, in
response to
"a
statement
published by
Yemen's
official news
agency over
the weekend,
Mr Saleh said
he would 'not
allow the
collapse of
state
institutions,'
in response to
an increased
number of
protests
within
government
institutions
designed to
unseat Saleh
loyalists that
continue to
hold key
positions.
Meanwhile,
Yemeni
officials said
Mr
Saleh
cancelled a
planned trip
to the United
States after a
request
by party
members."
Similarly,
no
explanation
was offered
when requested
for the UN's
failure to
reach
even all parts
of Pibor town
in South
Sudan, where
the UN has a
peacekeeping
mission.
Of the
"scores" left
dead, "Murle
MPs blame
SPLA, UN for
Pibor attacks"
-- again, no
response or
explanation as
"South
Sudanese MPs
from the Murle
community have
blamed the
army and UN
peacekeepers
for allowing
armed men from
the
Luo-Nuer
ethnic group
to attack
Pibor town on
Saturday."
While
Ban has
stopped
speaking much
about Haiti,
since his
Office
received a
claim
for
reparations
for
introducing
cholera, no
response was
given to a
new series of
protests over
the weekend at
the UN base in
Mirebalais
demanding the
withdrawal of
the MINUSTAH
mission.
Holidays took
the
day.
(c) UN Photo
Ban and
Saleh: who
will stay in
office longer?
Ban's
call to
avoid
reprisals in
Guinea Bissau,
where the UN
had already
sheltered
the coup
leaders / drug
kingpin, fell
on deaf ears,
with at least
one
lower lower
coup
participant
subject to
extrajudicial
killing, Major
Yaya Dabo: "as
he arrived at
the police
station to
turn himself
in, agents on
duty encircled
his vehicle,
he was shot at
and killed."
But
there was no
response from
the UN. This
bodes badly
for second
term of Ban.
Watch
this site.
Update:
Nine
hours after
the questions
were posed,
and after
publication of
the above, the
UN put out a
statement on
one of these
four issues:
South Sudan.
It did not
respond to the
Muerle MPs
blaming the UN
and
South Sudan
authorities
"for allowing
armed men from
the
Luo-Nuer
ethnic group
to attack
Pibor town."
Rather, it was
a
read out of
Ban Ki-moon
speaking WITH
the South
Sudanese
president.
Watch this
site.
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