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Ladsous Refuses ICP Q on Shootings in Mali, AFP & Reuters Blame Rwanda

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 2 -- When UN Peacekeepers are determined, even by the UN itself, to have killed civilians by using excessive force, what accountability is there?

  None for the head of UN Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous. Vine here. This took place at the UN Security Council stakeout, but Reuters and Agence France Presse and others did not mention it, only blaming Rwanda. Both previously tried to censor Inner City Press coverage of Ladsous and French colonialism, to the extent of moving to ask the UN to throw Inner City Press out.

Which approach is journalism?

AFP wasn't even AT this stakeout - Ladous sought to avoid questions by repeating his talking points in French, but no AFP. Then Reuters told UNTV to give it the microphone, to ask about Rwanda. Ladsous leered. Then a retired Reuters reporter was pointed at by Ladsous' spokesman Nick Birnback, who then grabbed the UNTV microphone to take it away from Inner City Press.

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