UN
Slammed on
Haiti Cholera,
Looks at its
Waste in
Mali, Ladsous
Knee-deep
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 26 --
The UN's bid
for impunity
for bringing
cholera
to Haiti
was assailed
at a legal
conference on
Saturday, with
Seton
Hall law
professor
Kristen Boon
saying that
the UN does
not possess
absolute
immunity, it's
conditional on
provision to
provide forum
for
remedy.
But
the UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous has
refused to
comply with
its Status of
Forces
Agreement and
set up any
standing
claims
commissions.
Recently
the
UN lied or
mis-spoke to
Inner City
Press -- it
said that now
UN
Peacekeeping
screens for
cholera.
Then when
Inner City
Press asked
for the second
time the next
day, UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
acting deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
admitted this
is not the
case. But
media
reported that
the UN now
screens, and
the UN did not
correct it.
It's
worth noting
-- and putting
into context
-- that the
Security
Council's
resolution
2100 setting
up the mission
in Mali,
MINUSMA,
provides for
"the
Secretary-General
to consider
the environmental
impacts of
operations of
MINUSMA when
fulfilling its
mandated tasks
and, in this
context
encourages
MINUSMA to
manage them,
as appropriate
and in
accordance
with
applicable and
relevant
General
Assembly
resolutions
and United
Nations rules
and
regulations,
and to operate
mindfully in
the vicinity
of cultural
and historical
sites."
Sophie
Ravier,
Environmental
Officer of the
UN Department
of Field
Support
-- whose
Ameerah Haq
Inner City
Press is told
and has
reported is to
be sent off to
ESCAP in
Thailand by
Herve Ladsous
-- has said
that
"The
reconnaissance
team visited a
few locations
to assess them
from a
security
perspective,
but also
looked at the
environmental
aspects of
those
locations
including
water, energy
and possible
waste
management
solutions."
It's
nice for the
UN, now, to be
saying it is
looking at "
possible
waste
management
solutions"
rather than
simply putting
cholera
infested feces
into people's
drinking water
as in Haiti.
But what
about the
thousands of
families
injured,
killed, by the
UN's gross
negligence?
And
whatever
belated review
UN
Peacekeeping
is doing on
its waste in
Mali, Ladsous
has
incorporated
into the
mission a
country on the
UN's
list of child
soldier
recruiters,
and has yet to
act on its
rapes, or
those of his
partners in
the Congo.
How
can Ladsous
and Ban Ki-mon
preach or even
speak of rule
of law, while
refusing to
answer
questions
about their
responsibility
for deaths in
in Haiti?
Ladsous, who
refuses all
Press
questions (video here, UK
coverage
here) is
polluting,
Haiti style,
the entire UN.
Watch this
site.
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