At
UN,
Bishop of
Kadugli Says
Egyptian
Troops Were
Not Neutral,
Haroun Imposed
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 5 -- As
UN
peacekeepers
sit idle in
war torn
Kadugli
in war torn
Southern
Kordofan, the
Anglican
Bishop of
Kadugli came
Friday to the
UN in New York
and told the
Press among
other things
that the
Egyptian
battalion
there was "not
neutral...
some
people were
killed in
front of
them."
This
is
documented in
a report that
the UN has
insisted on
calling
"leaked"
-- Inner City
Press put in online here --
while now
being at least
a week late in
finalizing and
releasing the
report, which
for example
states:
42.
On 8 June,
UNMIS Human
Rights
witnessed the
movement of
four armed
men (two armed
civilians and
two Central
Reserve
Police)
carrying
weapons in and
out of the
UNMIS
Protective
Perimeter
without any
intervention
from the UNMIS
peacekeepers
guarding the
premises.
Inner
City Press
asked Reverend
Andudu Adam
Elnail what he
thought of the
performance
of the UN in
Southern
Kordofan, even
before their
mandate
expired on
July 9. "The
peacekeepers
have not done
enough," he
said.
"Peacekeepers
need to be
neutral."
He
said the
Egyptians are
close to the
Sudanese, and
sit in their
base "waiting
for
instructions
from
Khartoum."
Inner City
Press asked
him if a
force like the
one now in
Abyei, made up
entirely of
Ethiopians,
would be
acceptable.
He
said yes --
some note
Ethiopia's
close
relations with
Khartoum and
the lack of
human rights
monitoring in
the UNISFA
mission -- but
added that he
preferred the
pre-CPA model
of observers
from "Norway,
the US and the
UK."
Images
depicting mass
graves
discussed
Friday at UN
Ironically,
Sudan's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN told
Inner City
Press that it
was
just such a
small
observation
force that his
foreign
minister Ali
Karti was
referring to
when he said,
and then took
back, that
Sudan
could accept
foreign troops
in Southern
Kordofan in
the SPLM-North
agreed.
The
Bishop was
strongly
critical of
Ahmed Haroun,
saying that
Khartoum had
"imposed"
him as
governor of
Southern
Kordofan -- in
a process that
the UN and
its past and
present envoy
Haile
Menkerios
praised at the
time, as
they flew the
ICC-indicted
Haroun around
on a UN
helicopter to
Abyei.
Inner
City Press
ended by
asking the
Bishop to
assess the
performance of
Menkerios,
who Ban
Ki-moon just
named his
envoy on Sudan
and South
Sudan, based
in New York.
The Bishop
answered about
Haroun, but
later his
co-panelist
from Avaaz
said it was a
good idea,
they would
seek to
meet with
Menkerios
while in New
York. Watch
this site.
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