UN
Says Probing
Sudan Bombing
of S. Sudan
& Darfur,
Nothing on
Khartoum U.
Crackdown
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 30 --
The UN seems
barely able to
keep up with
events in
Sudan, despite
having two
peacekeeping
missions
there, nor
in South Sudan
with one UN
mission.
On
December 29
and
30, Inner City
Press asked
the UN about
reports on 17
killed in
South
Sudan by the
Sudan Armed
Forces, about
fighting in
Darfur and the
alleged entry
of the Darfur
JEM rebels
into South
Sudan, and
about
the tear
gassing of
protests at
University of
Khartoum by
Darfuri
students,
related to
SAF's killing
of JEM leader
Khalil Ibrahim
(as
well as
displacement
for a dam near
Dammir.)
On
the afternoon
of December
30, the Office
of the
Spokesperson
for Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon
provided
answers to
some of these
questions, but
nothing
about the
protests in
Khartoum:
From:
UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Fri, Dec
30, 2011
at 4:11 PM
Subject:
Questions
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
InnerCityPress.com
On
Sudan:
UNAMID has
received
multiple
reports of
armed groups
manoeuvring in
the Adilla, El
Daein and
Geraida areas
in South
Darfur
in recent
days. The
Mission is
verifying the
reports and
has stepped
up its
patrolling in
these areas.
The intentions
of the armed
groups
are not yet
known.
Further,
UNAMID
and UNMISS are
investigating
the veracity
of reports
that JEM
elements have
crossed from
South Darfur
into Northern
Bahr Al Ghazal
and that
Sudanese Armed
Force aircraft
have dropped
bombs in
Western
Bahr Al
Ghazal. The
reports have
not yet been
confirmed.
(c) UN Photo
DPKO's Herve
Ladsous in
Sudan,
verification
of bombing
& anything
on KRT U not
shown
Meanwhile, the
head of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous,
the fourth and
least
competent
Frenchman in a
row to hold
the post,
appeared on
the UN's web
site on
December 29
with a
monologue
bragging about
DPKO's
accomplishments.
For months
Ladsous
had dodged the
press,
canceling
Q&A
stakeouts and
refusing
to
answer
questions
about Haiti,
Rwanda and his
role as chief
of staff
to disgraced
former French
foreign
minister
Michele
Aliot-Marie in
her flying on
aircraft of
cronies of
Tunisian
dictator Ben
Ali.
Now, without
any
questions
allowed, the
UN on December
29 put online
a nearly four
minute
monologue by
Ladsous,
recorded on
December 5,
bragging about
the UN's
deployment in
Abyei (where
UN
peacekeepers
stood by as
civilians were
killed), about
the elections
in Liberia
and, of
course,
France's pet
project, the
toppling of
Laurent Gbagbo
in Ivory
Coast. Video
here.
Even
in this
propagandistic
format,
Ladsous could
not come up
with anything
to say
about the $1
billion
mission in
Darfur. Watch
this site.
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