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Zeid
Cites Abuses
from Burundi
to Myanmar,
Silent on UN
Rape Cover
Ups, Ladsous
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 14
-- A litany of
abuses were
rattled off by
Prince Zeid as
the UN Human
Right
Council's 30th
session began
on September
14, but there
was little to
nothing about
the UN itself,
even as UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve Ladsous
now publicly
linked
soldiers'
raping to
“recreation”
and “comfort,”
video
here.
Zeid
himself played
a role in
retaliating
against the
whistleblower
Ander Kompass
who revealed
the French
“peacekeeper” rapes
in the Central
African
Republic;
Ladsous is
listed in UN
Dispute
Tribunal
rulings as
having pushed
for Kompass to
be fired.
Now Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
panel on the
cover up has
conveniently
pushed back
its report on
the topic into
November,
conveniently
past a
September 28
summit on UN
Peacekeeping
held by US
President
Obama and
Bangladesh's
Hasina.
Zeid
said he will
release his
own delayed
report on Sri Lanka,
but did not
clearly call
for an
international
accountability
mechanism.
Zeid said that
democratic
space in Burundi
is shrinking;
meanwhile, Ban
Ki-moon has
not even moved
to send an
envoy,
which was
called
“imminent” a
month ago.
On
Ukraine Zeid
said that
Assistant
Secretary
General Ivan
Simonovic will
briefing the
Human Rights
Council; in
New York, his
office doles
out information
in a selective
way, excluding
those who are
critical.
Zeid
said
deportations
from the
Dominican
Republic to
Haiti should
comply with
international
law; he did
not cite the
UN having
killed over
8,000 people
in Haiti by
negligently
introducing
cholera, then
having
maintained
total impunity
for it.
Zeid
mentioned
Western
Sahara, where
the UN
Peacekeeping
mission does
not report on
human rights;
he spoke of
the
disenfranchisement
of the
Rohingya, a
word which
Ban's envoy on
Myanmar
refuses to
use. The UN
system is all
about
espousing good
intentions,
even as it
continues with
a head of
Peacekeeping
who excuses
and covers up
rapes by
soldiers from
his own
country. We'll
have more on
this.
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