As
UNSC Hears of
Failures to
Protect, Herve
Ladsous Floats
Out, Flew FDLR
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
28 -- When the
UN Security
Council held a
day-long
debate on UN
Peacekeeping
on July 28
more than
forty
countries
spoke,
from India
warning of an
unsustainable
shift into
internal
conflicts
to US
Ambassador
Samantha Power
citing reports
of UN
Peacekeeping
missions
failing to
protect
civilians.
But
during that US
speech, the
head of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous
left
the debate.
Earlier in
July he refused
to answer
about
peacekeepers
killing
civilians in
the Central
African
Republic.
Video
here.
Before that
for
months Ladsous
refused to
answer on his
partners in
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
committing
more than 130
rapes in
Minova in the
DRC, video
compilation
here.
More
recently
Ladsous has
refused to
answer the
complaint of Rwanda,
which
organized the
July 28
meeting,
that his
mission in the
DRC flew the
leader of the
Hutu FDLR
militia from
Eastern Congo
to Kinshasa
despite him
being on the
UN's sanctions
list, and the
rejection by
the Security
Council's
sanctions
committee of
the request
for a
waiver from Ladsous
- with his own
history in the
region, here.
There are
without
question many
courageous and
committed UN
peacekeepers.
But when the
person in
charge refuses
to answer
basic questions,
there is a
problem.
These are
questions that
should be
answered.
Inner City
Press will
continue to
pursue
answers.
A
representative
of NATO spoke,
without
addressing the
aftermath of
its
“peacekeeping”
in Libya.
Egypt,
speaking for
the
Non-Alignment
Movement, said
the UN
Secretariat
should not
begin “streams
of policy”
without first
getting
approval. As
Inner City
Press
reported,
Ladsous had
push-back, not
approval by
the C-34 group
of states for
his proposal
to use drones,
but proceeded
with it
anyway.
When
Inner City
Press reported
this, and
Herve “The
Drone” Ladsous
as
a nickname,
Ladsous began
to refuse to
answer any
Press
questions,
saying “I do
not respond to
you, Mister.”
Will
he respond to
the critiques
made during
the July 28
debate? Watch
this site.
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