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UN
Peacekeeping
Spin Omits
Haiti Cholera,
UNMEE,
Minova Rapes,
Ladsous
2013
UNITED
NATIONS, April
30 -- The UN
too often
presents as
facts what are
merely its
aspirations on
paper. For
example, this
morning UN
Peacekeeping tweeted
that it "helps
countries torn
by conflict
create
conditions for
lasting
peace."
That
would be nice.
But
it ignores
failed UN
missions like
that between
Ethiopia and
Eritrea
(UNMEE),
or the
MINURCAT
mission that
was thrown out
by Chad.
It
ignores and
papers over
that the UN
mission in
Haiti,
MINUSTAH,
nearly
certainly
brought
cholera and
not peace to
that country,
which
killed over
7,000 people.
Then the UN
tersely
dismissed
legal claims
about the
cholera,
saying they
were "not
receivable."
There
are, of
course, tens
of thousands
of well
meaning actual
peacekeepers.
But the UN
doesn't even
properly
protect them.
As
simple one
example, why
didn't the
peacekeepers
in South Sudan
have
APCs? Why
weren't the
pilots there
told of the
dangers, where
to
avoid? There
are no
answers.
The
UN
Peacekeeping
tweet linked
to its website.
Clicking
through,
there's a
video and even
mural of
George Clooney
but no mention
of cholera
there. Rather,
it claims that
it is
"guided by...
impartiality."
Today,
that's not
true. In Mali,
the UN is
being drafted
as it was in
Cote
d'Ivoire into
being an
adjunct to
French
military
action. In the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo, the UN
is setting up
an
"intervention
brigade" which
the DRC
government
says is to
"eradicate"
the M23 group.
UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to
hold the
position, has
become so
aligned with
the DRC
authorities
that Ladsous
for months
refused to
answer Inner
City Press
questions
about 126
rapes in
Minova by the
DRC Army: November 27, December
7
and December
18 -
& April
25.
No
amount of
propaganda or
social media
sleight of
hand can make
up for
this
stonewalling
and lack of
accountability.
#LADSOUS2013.
Watch
this site.
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