In S.
Sudan, UN
Admits "Error"
of Trucks of
Guns by
Road, Haiti
Cholera
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
6 -- The UN
issued a rare
admission of
error on March
6, saying that
contrary to
policy weapons
were moved by
road, not
air, in South
Sudan for the
Ghana
peacekeepers
recently
arrived from
Cote d'Ivoire.
The
UN issued
this:
Juba,
6 March 2014:
It is the
policy of the
United Nations
Mission in
South
Sudan (UNMISS)
that during
the crisis in
South Sudan
all arms and
ammunition for
peacekeeping
contingents
are flown into
respective
areas of
deployment and
not taken by
road. This is
an important
security
measure.
In
connection
with the
transport of
cargo of
general goods
belonging to
the Ghanaian
battalion on
its way to
Bentiu,
several
containers
were
wrongly
labelled and
inadvertently
contained
weapons and
ammunition.
This is
regrettable.
The Ghanaian
troops are
part of the
surge of
UNMISS troops
to assist
South Sudan
and the goods
were en route
to
Bentiu,
passing
through
Rumbek.
UN
Headquarters
intends to
dispatch a
high level
investigation
team to
look into this
matter on an
urgent basis,
in cooperation
with the
Government of
South Sudan.
Pressed
for
more details,
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
declined. One
wondered,
if the UN can
in essence
apologize so
quickly for
weapons
transport
in South
Sudan, why not
for the 8,000
people killed
by the cholera
introduced
into Haiti?
Then
Inner City
Press was sent
links to the photos
of the (UN)
trucks,
and
of the weapons.
Click here
and here;
h/t.
Perhaps
it's that the
UN was
caught
red-handed, so
to speak. So
now what?
Watch this
site.
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