UNITED
NATIONS, March
19 -- The
killing of
civilians in
Ivory Coast
was the
centerpiece of
Amnesty
International's
push on the
Arms Trade
Treaty
at the UN on
Tuesday.
Inner
City Press
asked AI's
Salil Shetty
about
Syria, which
will be the
topic of
another story.
But it was
good to
get the
assessment of
the UN's
performance in
Cote d'Ivoire
from AI's
West Africa
Researcher
Salvatore
Sagues. Video
here.
Since
July 2012
killings in
the Nahibly
internally
displaced
persons' camp,
in which UN
Peacekeepers
did nothing or
even pushed
IDPs to the
beating death
by an
anti-Gbagbo
mob, Inner
City Press has
asked the
UN about it.
After
repeated
stonewalling
-- UN
Peacekeeping
chief
Herve Ladsous
said he would
not answer any
of Inner City
Press'
questions, on
this or Haiti
or rapes in
the Congo -- in December
the
UN told Inner
City Press that
Ladsous' envoy
Bert Koenders
would
investigate.
Well,
Sagues on
March 19 told
Inner City
Press he met
with Koenders
two
weeks ago, and
Koenders was
STILL saying
he's going to
investigate.
When? This is
called a cover
up, like
Ladsous with
the 126 rapes
in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army,
Ladsous's
partners.
And
that's what
the UN does in
Cote d'Ivoire
as well,
identify like
Ladsous'
native France
with the
Ouattara
government to
the extent of
not protecting
civilians from
Ouattara
forces.
Ladsous is
destroying
the UN and
Peacekeeping -
but who dares
speak up?
(On
March 18, the
UN
raided
Inner City
Press' office
without notice
or
consent, then
on
March 19
demanded that
it take the
apres-raid
video
off YouTube.
Inner City
Press posted
another one,
click here to
view.
Click
to view
Ladsous2013
series, first
three
episodes.)
AI's
Sagues
answered Inner
City Press:
the UN failed
completely in
Cote
d'Ivoire.
During Duekoue
people asked
for help, the
UN had a base
1
kilometer from
massacre. The
UN said, we
can't, we are
too few.
He
said AI "met
with UNOCI
leaders, told
them to
investigate
and learn
lessons. But
fifteen months
later,
Nahibly. UN
Peacekeeping
had
10 Moroccan
[peacekeepers]
at the
entrance and
fifteen
Pakistani
[peacekeepers]
in the camp.
This time
again the UN
soldiers
pushed
back the
people.
Sagues
said, the UN
learned
nothing,
tomorrow the
same thing can
happen
again. This
is Ladsous'
UN.
#LADSOUS2013.
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