UNITED
NATIONS, May 8
-- What is
happening to
UN
Peacekeeping?
In the past
few days, an
Ethiopian
peacekeeper
was killed in
Abyei, along
with
the Ngok Dinga
paramount
chief, by
Misseriya
tribesmen.
Many
questions remain
outstanding;
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous has
refused
to answer,
when asked by
Inner City
Press if
notification
of
the ambushed
convoy's
travel had
been given,
and did not do
a Q&A
stakeout as
his
predecessor
Alain Le Roy
would almost
certainly have
done.
Four
peacekeepers
from the
Philippines
have been
kidnapped in
the Golan
Heights, by
the Yarmouk
Martyrs
Brigade, who
took then
"returned"
21 of them in
March. (No one
was held to
account.)
And
now a
Pakistani
peacekeeper
has been
killed in
South Kivu in
Eastern
Congo. The
MONUSCO
mission has
been added to
Wednesday's
Security
Council
agenda, at the
request of
France and
Pakistan,
Rwanda's
Ambassador
Eugene Richard
Gasana told
Inner City
Press.
(Pakistan's
Ambassador
Masood
Khan confirmed
this to Inner
City Press,
adding that
the
perpetrators
did not appear
to be M23.)
But
where is
Ladsous? He
appeared to be
missing
in action:
MIA.
All
of this takes
place as UN
Peacekeeping
under Ladsous
has veered
from
its previous
insistence on
impartiality.
In the Eastern
Congo, it is
deploying a
so-called
Intervention
Brigade, which
Congolese
authorities
brag will
"eradicate"
the M23 as a
military AND
political
movement.
In
Mali, UN
Peacekeepers
will
supposedly get
involved in
disarmament.
Inner City
Press asked
Ladsous, "Who
will the
disarm the
MNLA in
Kidal?"
Ladsous
refused to
answer. Video
here.
Ladsous
wants
to deploy
drones, in the
Congo and Cote
d'Ivoire --
but when he
is linked to
drones he
calls it an
insult; his
spokesman
Kieran Dwyer
gave this as
one of two
examples of
why Ladsous
will not
answer Inner
City Press'
questions, video here.
But
where IS
Ladsous,
during all
this? Why
won't he
answer the
outstanding
questions,
particularly
about Abyei?
Watch this
site.
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