UNITED
NATIONS, April
9 -- How does
the UN explain
to itself
being targeted
in
Jonglei, South
Sudan,
seemingly by
Yau Yau rebels
from the Murle
group?
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon
issues a
statement that
attacks on
peacekeepers
are subject to
the
jurisdiction
of the
International
Criminal
Court.
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous is
nowhere to be
found, but his
spokesman
Kieran Dwyer
says the
peacekeepers
were targeted.
But
why?
Could
it be that,
under envoy
Hilde Johnson
who wrote a
fawning book
about
the South
Sudan
government,
the UN Mission
is viewed by
rebels as
entirely
aligned with
the
government?
That
in Jonglei
this was
fortified when
Lou Nuer
tribesmen
killed
hundreds
of Murle in
Pibor, and the
UN was very
slow to
arrive, and
then to
admit the
extent of the
casualties?
Is
anyone
reporting on
this? Or
simple taking
the line of
the DPKO of Ladsous, who refuses to answer
critical
questions?
(It
was Dwyer's
colleague who
went so far as
to seize the
UN Television
microphone on
December 18
to try to
avoid an Inner
City Press
question to
Ladsous about
rapes by the
Congolese
Army, which
Ladsous
supports. But
it was Dwyer
who, leaving
the role of
honest
spokesman,
announced that
Inner City
Press'
questions
would only be
answered
under
conditions set
by Ladsous.)
At
Tuesday's UN
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
some questions
about the
attack. Later
this came in:
Date:
Tue, Apr 9,
2013 at 2:58
PM
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Subject: Your
question on
UNMISS
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress
[dot]com
Regarding
your
question at
noon today
about whether
any Sudan
People's
Liberation
Army (SPLA)
forces were
nearby when
UNMISS
peacekeepers
were attacked,
we can say
that the
attack hit a
civilian
convoy
escorted by
peacekeepers,
who were not
accompanying
any SPLA
forces.
While
Ban Ki-moon's
statement
condoled with
the government
of South
Sudan,
the Security
Council's
statement only
did so with
the government
of
India, from
where the five
killed
peacekeepers
came.
Watch
this site.
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