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On S
Sudan, ICP
Asked Why UN
Peacekeepers
Watch Rapes,
Corker Slams
UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow Up on
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, July
28 -- In the
UN's continued
withholding of
news and
answers about
South Sudan,
the reports of
the UN's own
knowledge of
abuses are now
being withheld
from its own
impacted
national
staff.
Since
the UN refuses
to answer
questions, and
Bans
the Press from
South Sudan
meetings,
video
here, we
published this
document of
complaint
against the
UN's reported
plan to
relocate
Internally
Displaced
Persons to the
UN House where
its
peacekeepers
stood by
watching as
IDPs were
raped. Photo
of complaint
here. and
below.
Then on July
27 Inner City
Press along
with a new
UN corruption
scandal asked
Ban Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq
about the
rapes, the
inaction, and
the planned
relocation. Vines here and here,
UN
transcript
here:
and below.
On July 28,
Senator Bob
Corker the
chair of the
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee
which the UN told it has
"no record"
about evicting
Inner City
Press while telling
Nobel winner
Jose Ramos
Horta it has
an "internal
report,"
put out this
statement:
"I am
horrified by
allegations
that U.N.
peacekeepers
witnessed
women and
girls being
raped and
failed to act.
The U.N. must
get to the
bottom of
these
reprehensible
charges
immediately,
and if true,
swift and
forceful
action must be
taken. The
U.N. has shown
a callous
disregard for
actions such
as these, and
we must use
every tool
available to
end these
abuses. Our
nation’s
leadership at
the U.N. must
immediately
use its
influence to
restore
accountability
and oversight
of
peacekeeping
missions,
which are
being
subsidized by
American
taxpayers.
Peacekeepers
continuing to
fail to
protect the
most
vulnerable,
including when
security
forces use
rape as a
weapon of war
on innocent
civilians,
fundamentally
violates why
they are there
and must not
be tolerated.”
On the UN
watching
rapes, Inner
City Press got
a quote from
the UK on July
28. Where is
the US
Mission to the
UN, on this as
on the UN's
retaliatory
Press
eviction?
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