By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 12 --
UN
Peacekeeping
is in
disarray, from
Darfur
in Sudan
to the
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo.
On
August 12
Inner City
Press asked UN
spokesperson
Eduardo Del
Buey what the
UN, which
spends $1
billion a year
in Darfur, was
doing after 100
people were
killed over
the weekend in
East Darfur.
Video
here.
Del
Buey replied
that the UN
mission had
given a
"special
flight" to
governmental
authorities to
the site, and
sent "senior
personnel" to
provide
technical
assistance to
a mediation.
This
ignores the
number of
Sudanese
government
officials who
have been
indicted for
war crimes and
genocide in
Darfur, and
echoes the UN
flying ICC
indictee Ahmad
Harun to
Abyei.
Meanwhile
in
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo, the
killing and
displacement
in Katanga has
apparently
drawn no
response from
the UN. Inner
City Press
asked Del Buey
about Katanga,
but there was
no answer. Video here from 2:21.
Inner
City Press
also asked if
the UN still
respects or
abides by the
Kampala
agreement
under which
the M23 rebels
pulled back to
positions
outside of
Goma. Is the
MONUSCO
mission
seeking to
disarm or
dislodge from
these agreed
positions the
M23 rebels?
Del Buey did
not really
have an answer
to this
question. He
reiterated
that the
"Security
Zone" is meant
to protect
civilians.
Like
the UN is
doing in
Darfur?
In Sri
Lanka, after
having no
comment on the
Army's use of
live fire
against
protesters of
water polluted
by Hayley's in
Weliweriya,
now the UN has
no comment on
the attack on
a mosque in
the Grandpass
section of
Colombo. Video
here from
1:45.
Inner
City Press has
also put these
Sri Lanka
questions to
the office of
High
Commissioner
for Human
Rights Navi
Pillay. Watch
this site.
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