Ladsous
Bases
Non-Answers on
"Insinuations,"
Drones &
Rwanda, Haiti
to Ben Ali
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 22 --
When UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous was
asked two
questions on
Sudan by Inner
City Press on
Monday, his
only reply
was: "Mister I
told you
already that I
would answer
your questions
when you stop
making
insulting
insinuations
about me." Video
here, at
Minute 26:22.
There
was no
insinuation in
the questions
Inner City
Press asked,
which
concerned a
deadly attack
on UNAMID
peacekeepers
in Darfur, and
whether
Ladsous'
peacekeepers
in their
logistics base
in Southern
Kordofan are
able to at
least observe
and report on
human rights
violations. Video
here, from
Minute 25:40.
So
Ladsous must
be referring
to some
earlier
"insulting
insinuation"
which he
didn't
specify, and
which
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky, when
asked to
confirm that
Ladsous is
conditioning
answers on
receiving
positive
coverage,
could not or
would not
specify.
What
could these
"insulting
insinuations"
be?
In March 2012,
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported that
Ladsous had
proposed DPKO
use of drones
to the General
Assembly's
C-34 committee
on
peacekeeping,
a proposal
that a number
of delegations
criticized to
Inner City
Press.
Does Ladsous
not answer
member states
"insulting"
questions
about drones?
Back
on September
2, 2011 Inner
City Press
first reported
on Ladsous as
last minute
replacement
DPKO chief for Jerome
Bonnafont. On
August 20, Inner
City Press published
a card of
congratulation
directed to
Bonnafont at
the UN in New
York from
French Senator
Jean-Marie
Bockel.
Owning UN
Peacekeeping
is useful to
France: just
this week in
Paris, Nicolas
Sarkozy
bragged of his
country's
military
action in Cote
d'Ivoire as
well as Libya.
As reflected
in documents
exclusively
obtained and
published by Inner City Press, France
has no problem
using DPKO to
advance its
economic
interests, click
here for
examples.
On
October
13, 2011,
Ladsous
refused to
answer
Inner City
Press'
questions
about, among
other things,
his time and
statements as
French Deputy
Permanent
Representative
at the UN
during the
Rwanda
genocide in
1994, his
statement on
removing
Aristide from
Haiti, and
having
arranged the
flights of
disgraced
French foreign
minister
Michele
Aliot-Marie on
airplanes
owned by
cronies of
Tunisian
dictator Ben
Ali.
In
March 2012,
after Inner
City Press
exclusively
reported that
Ladsous had
proposed DPKO
use of drones
to the C-34,
it was
confirmed, but
Ladsous was
then allowed
to dodge
questions
about it.
On May
29, 2012,
emboldened, Ladsous
announced on
UN TV that
he would not
answer any
Inner City
Press
questions,
including that
day's on Haiti
cholera and
accepting a
Sri Lankan
alleged war
criminal as an
advisor
due to
previously
"insults" --
seemingly,
those above.
He had since
refused to
answer short,
polite
questions
ranging from
Abyei (video)
to Lebanon,
mercentaries
and the Democratic
Repubilc of
the Congo
to, on October
22, Darfur.
As
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
spokesman
Nesirky, is
this
appropriate?
For a UN
official
getting paid
-- tax free --
with public
taxpayer
money? This is
Ban's UN's
freedom of the
press? Watch
this site.
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