UN's
Ladsous Meets
ICC-Indicted
Bashir As Bans
War Crimes
Questions,
Keeps
Body,
Biometrics
UNITED
NATIONS, July
5 -- UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous has
repeatedly
refused
to answer
Press
questions
about war
crimes, from
the 135
rapes in
Minova by
his partners
in the
Congolese Army
last November
to accepting
as an adviser
a Sri Lanka
military
figure
depicting in
the UN's own
report as
shelling
hospitals.
Now
Ladsous
has met with
Omar al-Bashir
of Sudan,
indicted by
the
International
Criminal Court
for genocide
as well as war
crimes.
While
the Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations has
previously
offered free
air flights to
another ICC
indictee Ahmed
Harun, since
then the UN
has claimed to
have strict
rules
about when to
meet with
indictees.
Was
this encounter
necessary or
desirable?
DPKO has
refused to
answer
basic Inner
City Press
questions of
which they
acknowledged
receipt
six days ago.
Will the UN be
posting photos
of Ladsous'
meeting with
Bashir, after
having issued
whole
galleries and
videos of
Ladsous in
Mali, posing
with French
soldiers
for example?
While
in Sudan,
Ladsous said
that after a
skirmish in
Darfur that
injured
three
peacekeepers
from Nigeria,
his DPKO has
“kept the
body” of
one of the
attackers for
analysis. Is
that legal?
In
the Eastern
DRC, the
International
Organization
for Migration
announces it
is helping
IDPs, with $3
million from
the Office of
Foreign
Disaster
Assistance of
the US
government,
which as
Security
Council
president is
convening a
debate on the
DRC and Great
Lakes
later this
month.
Late
in the IOM
press release
there's
reference to
a “biometric”
pilot. The Free UN Coalition for Access has asked
for
an explanation, from
@FUNCA_info.
Watch this
site.
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