UNITED
NATIONS, May
15 -- After
the UN
Security
Council's
closed door
meeting on the
Central
African
Republic on
Wednesday, a
range of
members told
Inner City
Press it is
"chaos" there.
The
Seleka rebels,
they said, are
looting and
the small
MICOPAX force
of
700 troops
cannot stop
them.
Surprising
to
some is that
while France
has a force
protecting the
Bangui
airport,
France has
"done nothing"
to protect
civilians.
Some talked
about giving
France a
mandate to do
that; others
said
France has
expressed no
interest in
doing it,
mandate or
not.
They
cannot be the
policeman of
all Africa, a
France
supporter on
the
Council told
Inner City
Press. Only
Mali?
Meanwhile
on
Mali, Inner
City Press' April 24
prediction
that the UN
envoy job
would go to
Bert Koenders
-- despite his
failure
to investigate
UN
peacekeepers'
(in) actions
while
internally
displaced
people
perceived as
Gbagbo
supporter were
killed at the
Nahibly camp
-- is
becoming true.
(Prodi
losing out for
Italian
president took
fellow
Italian De
Mistura out of
the running,
but why not
the acting
UNAMID
chief from
Niger?)
As
we've noted,
Koenders pushes
back at the
press and
is defensive
of France (a
pragmatic
position
for getting
the UN job in
former French
colony Cote
d'Ivoire) and
of
Herve
Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row atop UN
Peacekeeping.
And now Mali?
Here's
Inner City
Press video of
Amnesty
International
reviewing
Koenders'
ONUCI on
Nahibly,
here.
Inner
City Press
asked UN
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
about Nahibly
and
Koenders at
Wednesday's
noon briefing.
That, he said
he'd look
into.
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site.
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