On
CAR, Mia
Farrow on
Danger of
“Re-Hatting”
Being Like
Darfur
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
22 -- In the
Central
African
Republic, the
planned UN
mission
MINUSCA is not
slated to take
over until
September 15.
Until
then, when
Inner City
Press has
asked
questions
about killings
and
disappearances
by the current
MISCA force,
the UN has
either refused
to
answer, or
has said,
“Ask MISCA.”
But
for the most
part, MISCA
will be
“re-hatted” as
the UN mission
on
September 15.
On July 22
Inner City
Press asked
Mia Farrow,
back from
her recent
trip to the
Central
African
Republic as a
UNICEF
Goodwill
Ambassador,
about the “UN”
mission
MINUSCA being
mostly MISCA,
re-hatted.
"If
that's what it
morphs into,"
Mia Farrow
said, "that
would be like
Darfur,
[UNAMID]...
it's never
going to be
the answer."
Recently
in
Darfur,
the UNAMID
mission has
been exposed
for
withholding
information
about the
level of
killing.
MISCA /
MINUSCA seems
already
headed down
that road.
Inner
City Press
also asked Mia
Farrow if
during her
time in CAR,
her
fourth trip to
the country,
she had seen
any visible
work there by
the UN
Peacekeeping
Commission
“configuration,”
in the UN
jargon. No,
she said. And
that too is
telling.
Mia
Farrow was
asked an open
ended question
about what she
would like the
Security
Council to do
for CAR and
other
countries.
She said she'd
prefer to keep
her July 22
briefing
focused on the
too-often
ignored
and forgotten
Central
African
Republic, but
that UN
improvements
are
needed. We
agree - that
is what the
new Free
UN Coalition
for Access
is working
for. Watch that site, and this.
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