UNITED
NATIONS, April
12 -- After
more than four
months of
stonewalling
by
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous on the
mass rapes in
Minova by
his partners
in the
Congolese Army
in November,
on Thursday
Ladsous'
spokesman
Kieran Dwyer
spoon-fed
purportedly
exonerating
information
not only to
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters but
also to Agence
France
Presse, click
here.
AFP
and its Tim
Witcher have
been Ladsous'
go-to
protector
since the day
he was foisted
on the UN as a
last minute
replacement
for Jerome
Bonnafont in
September 2011.
Then,
Witcher
launched a
kangaroo court
proceeding
against Inner
City Press
in the UN
Correspondents
Association --
now known as
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance -- to
censure Inner
City Press for
its reporting
on Ladsous'
last minute
selection.
More
recently, on
March 8, 2013
Witcher filed
a complaint
with UN
Security
leading off
with how Inner
City Press
asked a
question to
Ladsous
about the
Minova rapes,
which
battalions
were involved.
Witcher
wrote
to UN Security
that on March
8 outside the
Security
Council
Inner City
Press started
shouting and
“abusing”
Ladsous, and
that
Ladsous did
not respond.
That
was a lie.
Inner City
Press asked
which two
battalions
Ladsous had
given his
ultimatum to,
and Ladsous
responded that
he was going
to
the Council to
talk about
Syria.
In
any event, it
is disgusting
that AFP has
sunk so low as
to file a
complaint with
UN Security
leading off
with how
another more
investigative
media asked a
question about
these rapes of
Herve
Ladsous, the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head UN
Peacekeeping.
AFP's
story, that 12
Congolese have
been
“suspended” --
not arrested,
mind you --
still does not
name the
battalions. It
doesn't
mention
Ladsous'
stonewalling.
Click
here
to view
November 27,
2012 footage
of Ladsous
refusing to
answer
Inner City
Press question
about the
rapes, and
then taking
Witcher,
Lou
Charbonneau of
Reuters and Margaret
Besheer of
Voice of
America
out into the
hall for a
private
briefing. None
of them wrote
about
the rapes at
that time.
Nor
does AFP or
Reuters'
Charbonneau
even mention
the BBC and
then
Guardian piece
which clearly
triggered
Kieran Dwyer
spoon-feeding
the
information to
them.
That
both AFP
under Witcher
and Reuters
under
Charbonneau
have tried to
get Inner
City Press
thrown out of
the UN
for things it
has written is
one thing. But
now both are
ignoring the
work of BBC
and the
Guardian which
gave them
their bogus
pro-UN
stories for
free. This is
shameful.
The
problem, we've
said and have
every right to
say, with
“articles”
like
Charbonneau's
on Reuters and
now AFP's is
they let the
UN off
the hook --
for doing
nothing during
the rapes, for
stonewalling
for
months
afterward.
They ensure
that this will
happen again
and again.
They are...
part of the
problem. Watch
this site.
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