In
South Sudan, UN Covers Up
For Kiir Forces Robbing UN
Staff, Memo Leaked to ICP
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS,
February 23 – With the UN
speaking more about South
Sudan, including a
four-speaker press conference
on February 22 manipulated
by holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, its reflexive covering
up for the Salva Kiir
government continues. Inner
City Press has been sent, by
outraged whistleblowing UN
staff, the following internal
directive, which pretends that
those robbing UN staff are NOT
in fact with the government.
Finding no answers from
"spokesman" Dujarric even to
questions on which he has been
given
an if-asked answer by
those above him in the UN
system, we publish it in full.
"Ref:
025/SB/02/23/2017 It has come
to the attention of UN
Security that criminals in
civil clothes operating in
pairs or individually and
purporting to be personnel of
Host Government National
Security are operating around
prominent supermarkets/stores
in Juba and targeting UN/INGO
personnel for harassment and
robbery. These individuals
accost unsuspecting staff
members coming out of the
supermarket and flash
identification cards as
personnel of National
Security. They immediately
accuse staff members of having
gone to change money inside
the supermarket and seek to
search the pockets of staff
members to determine if any
currency exchange has been
made or not. It is their
assessment that staff members
with more than 5000 SSP must
have changed money. Reports
received indicate that this
scenario is continuously
playing out and staff members
are falling victims to these
criminals.
The following
advisory are recommended to
ensure the safety and security
of staff:
Do not carry
large sums of money on you
whilst moving in town. Staff
members should not agree to be
subjected to bodily search
except when their lives are in
danger. Park UN
vehicles at designated car
park inside the supermarket if
one is available. Staff
members should avoid the
temptation of changing money
in supermarkets as some of
these venders may be
collaborating with the
criminals. As much as possible
avoid driving alone in town.
Staff members driving alone
are more vulnerable targets.
Always remember to drive with
doors locked and windows
closed. Never leave the car
unless forced to do so. Do not
display items (phones, laptop-
bag, handbags etc) openly in
your car. Put them on the
floor, under the seat or
preferable in the boot of
vehicle. Avoid argument
and struggle with an armed
robber. Report all security
incidents, unusual
happenings/activities, or
events to the SIOC Duty
Officer on 0922777765 or
Juliet Sierra Base immediately
and pass as much as possible
information (who, where, when)
to the duty officer."
The
UN system seems intent on
covering up the disappearance
of South South opposition
figures in Kenya, where Ban
Ki-moon made his own son in
law Siddharth Chatterjee the
UN Resident Coordinator.
On February
7, Inner City Press asked
Stephane Dujarric, Ban's old
spokesman, still speaking for
the UN, transcript
here:
Inner City Press:
You talked about South Sudan,
and I wanted to ask you, are
aware of an order among the UN
Humanitarian Air Service to
basically try to discourage
Kenyan nationals from going to
any IO-controlled territory
because of the capture of IO
officials in Kenya?
[Cross talk]
Spokesman: No...
Dujarric
referred to one of the UN
agencies the transition
process at which is entirely
murky. So here now is
the document leaked to Inner
City Press, put
on Scribd here.
UNHAS
Document Leaked to Inner City Press
Has UN Discouraging Kenyans' Travel
to SPLA-I/O Areas in South Su...
by Matthew
Russell Lee on Scribd
This comes
at a time when the failures of
Herve Ladsous' UNMISS are
being raised, including in
Washington, and is published
in light of danger and the UN
Spokesman refusing to answer
questions. We'll have more on
this.
On January 11
after South Sudan said that it
will not, in fact, accept the
4,000 new peacekeepers for the
Regional Protection Force,
Inner City Press asked UK
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft
about it. Video
here; UN transcript
here:
Inner City Press:
On South Sudan, the government
say they’re not going to take
the regional protection force.
What do you think the Council
can or should do?
Amb Rycroft: They
committed earlier to accept
the regional protection force.
They are obliged to accept it,
given Security Council
decisions, and we call on them
again to accept that regional
protection force in the
interest of longer term
stability in South Sudan.
When the
UN Security
Council members
met about South
Sudan on December
15, the best they
could do was
extend the mandate
of the UNMISS
mission for a
single day. Even
then, there was
already news of
UNMISS having
given arms to
warlord, or “rebel
general,” James
Koang.
Inner City
Press asked US
Ambassador
Samantha Power
about this on
December 16 and
she said she
hadn't read it. On
December 19, even
while fielding a
pre-picked
question on South
Sudan, Power still
refused to answer.
Video
here.
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