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Press Qs on
Rapes in
Minova &
Mali, UN
Ladsous
Answers
Dues-Payers?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 13 --
Here's how the
UN works now,
or doesn't.
The Under
Secretary
General for
Peacekeeping
Operations,
Herve Ladsous,
who has openly refused to answer Press questions for
example about
rapes by
peacekeepers
in Mali and Peacekeeping's
partners in
Eastern Congo
(noted
in the UK)
will give
answers
"exclusively"
to dues-paying
members of the
UN Association
of the USA.
Will
THEY ask him
about his
decision to
include in the
UN
Peacekeeping
mission in
Mali soldiers
from Chad,
which is on
the UN's own
list of child
soldier
recruiters?
About the
alleged gang
rape by
Chadian
soldiers in
Northern Mali?
Will
Ladsous
finally answer
why he has
continued to
support the
41st and 391st
Batallions of
the Congolese
Army, despite
no
accountability
for their 135
rapes in
Minova in
November 2012
and despite
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
stated Human
Rights Due
Diligence
Policy?
Compare
this
compilation
video, and
UK
coverage,
to the
following
invitation:
Please
join
the Better
World
Campaign,
United Nations
Association of
the USA and
the United
Nations
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations for
a panel
discussion and
reception on
UN
Peacekeeping
on the Front
Lines
with
Hervé
Ladsous
United
Nations
Under-Secretary-General,
Peacekeeping
Operations
Victoria
K.
Holt
Deputy
Assistant
Secretary,
U.S.
Department of
State
Peter
Yeo,
Executive
Director,
Better World
Campaign
Tuesday,
November
19, 2013
6:30
-
7:30 p.m.
Panel
7:30
-
8:30 p.m.
Reception
Tolerance
Museum
226
E.
42nd Street,
New York, NY
There
are many other
questions that
should be
asked and
answered, from
what
if
anything
Ladsous
accomplished
when he met
with
International
Criminal Court
indictee Omar
al Bashir
in July to the
lack
of
accountability
by the UN and
UN
Peacekeeping
for bringing
cholera to
Haiti --
but Chadians
in Mali, and
the lack of
accountability
for the Minova
rapes, would
be a good
place to
begin.
Especially
now with the
lack of action
on the Minova
rapes now
included in
the UN Security
Council
Presidential
Statement set
for adoption
on November
14, as a
Council member
confirmed to
Inner City
Press. Watch
this site.
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