By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 14 --
While the UN's
Ebola mission
in Ghana
builds up
quickly, UN Peacekeeping's
Herve Ladsous
on October 14
said his DPKO
officials "are
working
closely with
Liberia's
security
agencies to
plan future
security
operations
conducted in
the context of
the state of
emergency."
What does that
mean -- UN
Peacekeeping
participation
in curfews? Cordon
and
quarantine?
Martial law if
it comes to
that?
Ladsous should
answer - but he has refused Press questions (video
compilation
here), blocked
the Press'
camera (Vine
here) and
more recently
his Office demanded
that an on the
record
interview
about DPKO bringing
cholera to
Haiti not be
aired.
But the
questions
should be
answered, as should
the impact on
this mission
in Mali of its
chief, Bert
Koenders, so
quickly
leaving to become
Dutch foreign
minister.
Inner City
Press wrote
about this
early on October
14; at the
day's noon
briefing UN
deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
wouldn't even
confirm that
Koenders is
leaving. This
is the
Ladsousification
of the UN.
Back on
September 24 for
the UNMEER
Ebola response
mission, UN
official Tony
Banbury said
“we're moving
470 four by
four vehicles”
into the
impacted zone
of Liberia,
Sierra Leone
and Guinea.
Inner
City Press
asked Banbury
if these
vehicles are
all coming
from existing
UN
Peacekeeping
missions.
Banbury
replied, “some
peacekeeping
missions are
downsizing
[so] all of
them are
coming from
peacekeeping
missions.”
As
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported a
week ago, as
the final
point in an
otherwise
positive
profile of
this UN
mission's
lightening
speed, the
UN is seeking
to withdraw
vehicles from
its mission in
Darfur,
where it is
also accused
by
whistleblowers
of covering up
continued
killing of
civilians.
The UN
seems to have
no problem
pulling its
vehicles and
forces out of
Darfur - the
only problem
is getting the
government in
Khartoum to
agree to big
Western
transport
planes to fly
into Darfur to
move the
vehicles.
Banbury
continued
that “some are
very close to
the end of
their
serviceable
life for the
UN. The
requirement in
some cases is
for burial
parties, to
transport
corpses.”
Banbury
said
the UN is told
by doctors
that “after
use for that
purpose for a
length of
time, it
should be
burned.”
So the
UN is bringing
peacekeeping
vehicles from
Darfur, to
transport
corpses in and
them burn
them. Watch
this site.
Footnote:
Here is a copy
of the
recruitment
message for
UNMEER sent
out within the
UN, obtained
by Inner City
Press:
UNDSS
Urgent Request
for UN wide
staff surge
for UNMEER -
First Wave to
deploy by
Monday 29
September 2014
DISTRIBUTION
To:
UNSMS (Travel
Advisory
Distribution
List)
UNDSS
International
Field Staff
UNDSS Local
Field Staff
UNDSS-NY
DHSSS Chiefs
All Security
Focal Points
&
Alternate
Security Focal
Points
UN
Departments,
Agencies,
Funds and
Programmes
Dear
Colleagues,
Please find
attached an
urgent request
for staff
interested in
forming part
of the Surge
Team for the
United Nations
Mission for
Ebola
Emergency
Response
(UNMEER) for
your
information
and action as
necessary.
The magnitude
of this crisis
and the
unprecedented
nature of this
situation
demands
effective
action on the
ground
quickly. The
obstacles
ahead, to
contain the
outbreak,
prevent
further spread
of the virus
and help
affected
communities
and nations to
recover, are
formidable. It
is for these
reasons that
the
Secretary-General
activated the
UN system wide
crisis
framework and
took
unprecedented
steps to
ensure that
the UN
responds as
one at this
time of great
need.
Please note
the deadline
for
applications
is 24
September 2014
Best regards,
24/7
Communications
Centre
UN Department
of Safety and
Security
UN Operations
and Crisis
Centre
United Nations
Secretariat
, 
