UNSC
Moves
Back for
April, Rwanda
from Genocide
to Presidency,
UNCA Delays
& Attacks
Press
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
14 – When
Rwanda takes
over the UN
Security
Council
president on
April 1, it
will be back
in the second
story chamber
where during
the April 1994
genocide,
France managed
the retreat of
the
genocidaires
to safety in
Eastern Congo.
The
move-back of
the Security
Council, UN
sources told
Inner City
Press on March
13, will be
begin on March
28 and
continue over
the three-day
weekend that
follows.
The UN
press corps,
however, will
not as
originally
promised move
back to
offices on the
third and
fourth floor.
Why not? In
essence, a
small number
of big media,
using their UN
Correspondents
Association,
have taken
precedence
over other
reporters.
They
seek to
convert UNCA
into what one
member called
a “piggy bank”
for big media,
to “transfer
money for
fibers.” The
back and forth
has twice
pushed back
the rest of
the press
corps' moving
date, without
any vote ever
being taken.
On
Rwanda, the UN
press corps in
1994 cover the
Rwanda
genocide far
too little. A
correspondent
present at
that time
tells Inner
City Press,
“we believed
Herve Ladsous”
– at that time
France's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative,
now the head
of UN
Peacekeeping,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row to control
DPKO – “but
now? He's
gotten so much
worse.”
But
still there
are UNCA
“leaders” like
Tim
Witcher of
Agence France
Presse, as
well as
Reuters'
correspondent,
who serve as
pass-throughs
for Ladsous.
On 126
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army, which
DPKO supports,
Ladsous' DPKO
on March 7
served up to
these more
friendly
journalists
half answers
to questions
Inner City
Press put to
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon on
March 5.
When
Witcher hissed
the words
“lies and
distortions”
to Inner City
Press on March
8, Inner City
Press replied
“lapdog.” The
exchange,
including with
Reuters'
correspondents
Michelle
Nichols,
was entirely
verbal.
But on
March 11, UN
Security came
to tell Inner
City Press
that Witcher
and Nichols
had filed a
purported
security
complaint.
Inner City
Press has
requested a
copy, as well
of the UN's
ruled for due
process and on
frivolous and
false
complaints.
UN
official
Stephane
Dujarric has
refused, since
the NY
Civil
Liberties
Union asked
his Department
of Public
Information on
July 5, 2012,
to disclose
any due
process rules.
But,
Capital Master
Plan sources
tell Inner
City Press, he
and Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman did
recently “sign
off” on a
physical
barrier or
railing by the
renovated
Security
Council. On
behalf of
whom? Watch
this site.
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