UNITED
NATIONS, April
13 -- During
the Rwanda
genocide,
Herve Ladsous
as
France's
deputy
permanent
representative
was asked to
stop
protecting
the
genocidaires
in the zone
set up by the
Fernch
Operation
Turquoise, and
to stop the
calls to
murder from
Radio Milles
Collines.
As
Ladsous was
deposited by
France as its
fourth chief
of UN
Peacekeeping
in row, Inner
City Press asked if
this was
appropriate,
given Ladsous'
past and the
need for UN
Peacekeeping
to be and
appear
to be
impartial in
Eastern Congo.
Ladsous
refused to
answer Inner
City Press'
questions,
then and
since.
While
we have
previously
linked to
Ladsous'
statements in
the Security
Council at
that time,
today we link
to a French
confidential
diplomatic
cable from
Ladsous,
bragging how
he refuted --
falsely --
that the Zone
was being used
as base for
military and
political
(Radio RTML)
attacks.
Click
here
to view the
memo.
Given
his history,
how was this
man accepted
to head UN
Peacekeeping?
Why
was he allowed
to refuse
questions, to
the point of
having his
spokesman seize the UN Television microphone
to avoid Inner
City
Press
questions
about 126
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army,
Ladsous'
partners?
After
the microphone
seizing, the
UN Department
of Public
Information
was
immediately
notified by
the Free UN
Coalition for
Access. But
nothing
was said;
months later,
DPI official
Stephane
Dujarric said
that he
spoke quietly
to Ladsous'
spokesman
about it.
But
the refusal to
answer has
continued, and
the handing
of half
answers
by Ladsous'
DPKO and the
UN
spokespeople
to Agence
France Presse
and other
compliant
media, including
Reuters' Louis
Charbonneau.
AFP's
Tim Witcher
went so far as
to file a
complaint on
March 8, 2013
with UN
Security
against Inner
City Press for
asking Ladsous
about
the rapes in
Minova, which
battalions
were involved,
a question the
UN still
refuses to
answer.
Ladsous openly
refuses to
answer
questions; his
spokespeople
and now the
UN's openly spoon-feed
half answers
to other
media. This is
the result.
Ladsous'
cover-up
and long
inaction on
the Minova
rapes, totally
outside of
his previous
history, has
put the UN and
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon in
more negative
light. In a
normal
organization,
the way to
proceed would
be clear. But
at the UN,
France “owns”
Peacekeeping.
At
what point,
with regard to
Mali for
example, does
the decay of
UN
Peacekeeping
under Ladsous
hurt even
France itself?
Watch this
site.
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