By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 7, more
here --
Six weeks
after Inner
City Press
began asking
the UN
questions
about its
MONUSCO
mission flying
the FDLR's
sanctioned
leader from
Eastern Congo
to Kinsasha,
on August 7
the Press was
able to ask
MONUSCO chief
Martin Kobler
directly. Video here and embedded below.
Kobler said it
had been
transparent,
than when the
UN Security
Council's
sanctions
committee
denied the
waiver
requested by
Herve Ladsous,
the FDLR
leader was
returned "to
the bush."
Inner City
Press asked,
isn't he
subject to an
arrest warrant
in Rwanda?
Kobler said he
was unaware of
that.
On the mere
two
convictions
for the 130
rapes by the
Congolese Army
in Minova in
November 2012,
Kobler said
the legal
process was OK
-- video
here --
but that the
investigation
was not
sufficient.
The third
Press
questions,
which Kobler
did not
answer,
concerned the
rehabilitation
of General
Amisi after a
failure to
investigate
the charges
against him.
We will have
more on this.
On back June
27 amid
reports that
the UN flew a
sanctioned
militia leader
of the FDLR
militia on a
UN aircraft in
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo,
Inner City
Press asked
UN spokesman
Stephane
Dujurric about
it at the UN
noon briefing
on June 27:
Inner
City
Press: why did
MONUSCO
[United
Nations
Organization
Stabilization
Mission in the
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo] fly
him to Goma to
Kisangani and
then to
Kinshasa when,
in fact, I
think there’s
an arrest
warrant for
him?
Spokesman
Dujarric:
I’m not aware
of any other
services
provided to
him by
MONUSCO.
But
it turns out
that UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous flew
the sanctioned
FDLR leader
from Eastern
Congo to
Kinshasa.
Rwanda
complained
about this, in
writing, on
June 26.
On July 16,
Inner City
Press asked
Rwanda's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
what has been
Ladsous'
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations'
response.
There has BEEN
no response -
in more than
three weeks. Video here, and embedded below.
Little more
than an hour
later, Ladsous
floated into
the Security
Council to
talk about
Central
African
Republic --
without having
answered a
written
complaint from
a Security
Council member
in more than
three weeks.
We call this:
unaccountable.
Dujarric
on June 27,
and in the
subsequent
times Inner
City Press
asked,
insisted that
not only Mary
Robinson (who
today left her
post as the
UN's Great
Lakes envoy)
but also US
envoy Russ
Feingold
requested the
waiver, and
that the FDLR
leader Gaston
Iyamuremye a/k/a
Rumuli had not
traveled to
Rome, arguing
that only that
was important.
Inner City
Press
disagrees --
why would UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous given his
history on
Rwanda,
representing
France in the
Security
Council in
1994
arguing for
the escape of
the
genocidaires
into Eastern
Congo, fly a
sanctioned
FDLR figure
linked to the
genocide
around?
On July
15, Haq
said
Rumuli
was escorted
from Kinshasa
back to the
east. Video
here.
Inner City
Press asked
about MONUSCO
escorting
Rumuli.
Haq said what
he had read
did not say
MONUSCO did
the escorting.
So who did?
And if not the
UN, how does
the UN know
where Rumuli
went? Watch
this site.
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