UNITED
NATIONS, May
20, updated
May 21 --
What's wrong
with UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous?
The press in
Nepal is full
of stories
about a Nepali
soldier
who died -- or
was "martyred"
-- on May 16
serving
Ladsous'
UNIFIL in
Lebanon.
But
nothing was
announced.
Last week
Ladsous
"announced"
the
news of the
third
kidnapping of
peacekeepers
in the Golan
Heights in
a conversation
with a few
hand-picked
friendly
journalists.
Now, the
death of a
peacekeeper is
not even
announced in
that fashion.
At
the May 20
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
about the
death of
the Nepali
peacekeeper,
identified as
Deepak Thapa
Magar.
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduard Del
Buey said he
didn't
have any
information
about the
death -- that
is, DPKO had
not
provided Ban's
spokesperson's
office even
with an
if-asked about
the
death.
Last
week Del Buey
answered a
question about
Ladsous'
strange and
selective mode
of releasing
information
only to
journalists
friendly
to him by
saying "Ask
DPKO." So
Inner City
Press did ask
DPKO, three
days ago --
and the
question, at
least the one
that Del
Buey said
should be put
to DPKO, has
still not been
answered. Here's video from the May 20 briefing.
The
problem is
wide-spread.
Also on May
20, Inner City
Press asked
what
Ladsous'
mission in
South Sudan
has been doing
while the town
of Boma
was overrun
and deserted.
(This question
was also twice
tweeted
at the UN
Peacekeeping
"social" media
account over
the weekend,
without
response).
Del
Buey replied
that UNMISS
"as soon as
conditions
allow" will
be sending an
assessment
mission to
assess the
need to
protect
civilians. But
civilians
already had to
flee.
As
we asked, and
will continue
to ask: what
is WRONG with
UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous? Watch
this site.
Update
of May 21: the
next day, more
than 19 hours
after it was
asked, this:
"Regarding
your question
on a
peacekeeper of
the UN Interim
Force in
Lebanon
(UNIFIL) who
died recently,
UNIFIL reports
that a
peacekeeper
from Nepal
died on 16
May, after
collapsing
while on duty.
A post-mortem
was conducted
on 17 May."
Again, what
is WRONG with
UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous? Watch
this site.
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