UNdisclosed
Location,
March 24 --
The Bozize
government in
the Central
African
Republic has
fallen as
rebels entered
Bangui and
took the
Presidential
palace. And
what
of the UN?
Video here.
Three
French-drafted
press
statements at
the UN
Security
Council,
and at
least nine
deaths among
an opaque
deployment of
South African
troops,
wasn't enough
to prop Bozize
up. But where
is he now?
The
Democratic
Republic of
Congo has
asked the UN's
refugee agency
UNHCR
to provide
transportation
to 25 members
of Bozize's
family who
crossed to
DRC, but they
say Bozize
himself is not
among them.
(Inner
City
Press wonders
if UNHCR will
be providing
more than
their basic
transportation
service, and
if so if it's
setting up a
two-tier
system for
refugees.)
French
foreign
minister
Laurent Fabius
says Bozize is
no longer in
the CAR.
So where is
he?
This
is the
unraveling of
another former
French colony.
On March 23
before the
palace fell,
Fabius' office
was saying it
asked for an
emergency
meeting of the
UN Security
Council in New
York.
Over
the
Christmas
vacation, as
the Seleka
rebels
gathered
strength and
took
town after
town, the
Council never
met.
Priorities.
In
fact, on March
13 when Inner
City Press
asked the UN's
envoy to CAR
Margaret Vogt
if she was in
New York to
ask for
Security
Council
action, she
said no, she
was on
vacation. She
said the
Council would
get a briefing
in April, but
perhaps
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
would say
something
before then. Video
here.
As
of noon in New
York on March
24, Ban
Ki-moon said
nothing.
Priorities.
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site.
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