UNITED
NATIONS, April
1 -- Four
months after
the Congolese
Army raped at
least 126
women in
Minova, and
the UN
belatedly set
a deadline
today
for Congolese
governmental
action, at
Monday's noon
briefing Inner
City Press
asked and was
told that
unspecified
“appropriate
actions” have
been taken.
Inner
City Press
asked, what
are these
actions?
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey could not
or
would not say.
On
March 28,
Inner City
Press asked UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous
to name the
two battalions
involved in
the rapes and
why no action
has been taken
for four
month.
Ladsous
simply
refused to
answer the
question,
turning away
and pointing
to
Agence
France Presse
which asked an
easier, “get
away”
question.
But
on March 28,
Ban's lead
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
said that on
March
25 the MONUSCO
mission set a
final deadline
of April 1,
and that this
was reiterated
by Ladsous to
the Congolese
foreign
minister
Tshibanda
on March 27.
Now,
with Nesirky
away from UN
Headquarters
with Ban for a
week, in San
Marino then
Andorra, Del
Buey on Monday
when Pressed
said, “what I
can tell you,
while a number
of appropriate
actions have
importantly
been taken by
the Congolese
government,
MONUSCO is
still waiting
to
receive
official
notification
of these
actions.
Assurances
have been
received from
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs Mr.
Tshibanda
during his
visit to New
York.”
So
now, we can
only surmise
since Ladsous
refuses to
answer
questions,
the meeting
between
Ladsous and
Tshibanda
which was
portrayed as
reiterating
the deadline
is now being
spun as the
meeting at
which
assurances
were made and
the problem
solved, or
deadline
extended.
Del
Buey went on,
“MONUSCO has
been in close
contact with
the government
and is
expecting a
response in
the coming
days.”
The
deadline was
today, pushed
to midnight
New York
(rather than
Kinshasa)
time. But at
the deadline,
Del Buey says
a response is
expected “in
the coming
days.”
Ban
Ki-moon's
Human Rights
Due Diligence
Policy is an
April Fool's
joke,
it appears,
made such by
Ladsous. So,
#Ladsous2013.
Footnote: While
refusing
to answer
Minova rape
questions from
the Press,
Ladsous gave
an
interview to
the UN's own
UN Radio,
which then
appeared on
the
UN's Radio
Okapi. No
questions
about the
rapes or the
Human Rights
Due Diligence
Policy.
Banning
the
independent
press and
speaking only
to your own
controlled
media
is North Korea
style. To this
has the UN
descended.
Watch this
site.
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