In
Darfur,
UN Silent on
Detention,
Accepts
Expulsion,
Ladsous Offers
Praise
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 27 --
The UN in
Darfur has
allowed a
staff member
to
allowed a
staff member
to languish in
detention
since February
24,
while another
staff member
was excluded
or declared
"persona non
grata" by the
Government,
not even
allowed back
in to pick up
her
belongings.
Meanwhile
Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row atop UN
Peacekeeping,
has said
things are
going well in
Darfur and
that the
peacekeeping
force
should be
reduced. Going
well for whom?
On
April 26 Inner
City Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
Spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey about
both cases:
Inner
City
Press: in the
Security
Council this
morning, Mr.
Ladsous
mentioned,
without
naming, a
UNAMID staffer
who he said
has been
arrested and
detained by
the Sudanese
authorities
since 24
February. I’d
like to know
what UNAMID is
doing to get
the person
out...
Deputy
Spokesperson:
As I said,
Matthew, we
don’t discuss
whatever
conversations
take place
with respect
to detained
people. That
is
something that
we maintain
confidential
so that we can
ensure, as far
as possible,
the safety and
well-being of
the people
that are
detained.
Inner
City
Press: How
about the
people that
are PNG’d,
persona-non-grataed?
there is a
woman, Hawa
Haydar, who is
a staff
member of
UNAMID, who
the Government
unilaterally
said they
don’t
want her to
come back,
I’ve seen the
correspondence,
she can’t
even get back
in to get her
personal
belongings.
Since it is
not a
matter of
safety, it is
just a matter
of a
Government--
Deputy
Spokesperson:
Well, I’ll
have to check
on that,
Matthew, I
don’t
have
information on
that
particular
case.
Often
such
responses are
never followed
up upon. But
on April 27 Del
Buey read
out an answer,
and took
another
question about
the UNAMID
mission in
Darfur:
Deputy
Spokesman:
On detained
staff
mentioned by
USG Ladsous,
we have
nothing
further to add
on these
matters than
what has
already been
shared with
you. The
United Nations
is making
every effort
within
its capacity
to secure the
safe release
of the staff
members. With
respect to the
PNG-ed UNAMID
staff member,
Howa Halyer,
as previously
stated, an
explanation
from the
Government of
Sudan for its
decision
to declare the
staff member
persona
non-grata has
been sought
via
Note Verbale
and we are
pursuing a
response. The
staff member
remains
employed by
the United
Nations. I'm
afraid it
wouldn't be
appropriate
for the
Organization
to comment
further on an
individual
staff member's
situation.
Well,
Inner City
Press will
comment
further, as
there is
growing
dissatisfaction
with
what Ban
Ki-moon and
his envoy
Ibrahim
Gambari, who
took
photographs
at a wedding
reception with
ICC-indicted
Omar al
Bashir, are
doing.
Based
on information
provided by
whistleblowers,
it seems that
the
UN, DPKO and
UNAMID have
given up:
From:
Aggrey
KEDOGO/UNAMID/UNFIELDMISSIONS
To: Hawa
Haydar/UNAMID/UNFIELDMISSIONS@UNFIELDMISSIONS
Cc: Imtiaz
Hussain/UNAMID@UNAMID,
Wolfgang
Weiszegger/UNAMID@UNAMID,
Tinkamanyire
Mugisha/UNAMID/UNFIELDMISSIONS@UNFIELDMISSIONS,
Fabrizio
Hochschild/NY/UNO@UNHQ,
Steve
Damond-Fagot/NY/UNO@UNHQ,
Armen
Vahradyan/NY/UNO@UNHQ,
Anthony
Banbury/NY/UNO@UNHQ,
Krzysztof
Stasiewicz/NY/UNO@UNHQ,
Joseph
Lombardo/NY/UNO@UNHQ
Dear
Hawa,
Concerning
your
inquiry of
coming back to
collect your
personal
effects, it
will
not be
possible since
there has not
been any
change in
MOFA's
decision.
While I do
understand
that this may
disappoint
you, I would
encourage you
to explore the
possibility of
identifying a
colleague
in El-Fashar
who could
assist you
with your
personal
effects.
Supposedly
there
may be some
interviews
conducted in
Entebbe -
a UN facility
which
uses the
mercenary firm
Saracen.
But from the
above, it
seems the UN
and UNAMID
have given up,
while publicly
claiming to
still be
fighting. This
is the UN of
Ban Ki-moon
and his DPKO
chief Herve "The Drone"
Ladsous, advised
on
Peacekeeping
by a Sri
Lankan war
criminal.
Watch this
site.
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