UNITED
NATIONS, April
26 -- What's
wrong with the
UN, its
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations and
mission in the
Congo,
MONUSCO?
More
than 24 hours
ago, the BBC
began
promoting its
interview
with
Brazilian
general Carlos
Alberto dos
Santos Cruz,
saying he is
now
the UN Force
Commander for
MONUSCO.
At
Friday's noon
briefing,
Inner City
Press began to
asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
how dos Santos
Cruz
was selected
-- both in
light of his
record in
cracking
down on Cite
Soleil in
Haiti in 2007,
and given the
southern
African
composition
of the new
MONUSCO
Intervention
Brigade.
But
Nesirky cut in
-- “Let's just
stop it right
there.” He
said that
announcements
about
appointments
come from the
UN in New
York, and
that no
announcement
has been made.
Video
here from
Minute 18:25.
Inner
City Press
asked, but
what about
what Carlos
Alberto dos
Santos Cruz
told the BBC?
Nesirky
said,
“with
respect,” the
UN makes its
announcements,
not the
BBC.
So
did dos Santos
Cruz jump the
gun, so to
speak? Is James
Mwakibolwa,
on whom the
UN's own Radio
Okapi reported,
still only the
commander
of the
Intervention
Brigade? Or is
he more?
Inner
City Press
also asked
what role, if
any, the UN is
playing in the
Kampala talks
between
Congolese
authorities
and the M23.
Nesirky said
he would
check. Five
hours later,
nothing.
Bad
communications,
especially
from DPKO
under Herve
Ladsous, have
become
the rule.
Ladsous outright refused to
answer Inner
City Press
questions
about the 126 Minova rapes by his partners in
the Congolese
Army, and
refused
again on April
25, including
on Mali,
Western
Sahara and
Cote d'Ivoire.
The current UN
accepts this.
Watch this
site.
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