UN
Says No Power
to Stop Sri
Lanka Silva
from
Inspecting
DPKO Troops
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 13 --
On the same
day the UN of
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon
said its
review of its
actions and
inactions in
Sri Lanka
will be
finished in
the second
quarter of
2013, it also
claimed that
it had no
power over,
and could not
stop, General
Shavendra
Silva of
the Sri Lanka
Army, depicted
in Ban's
report on Sri
Lanka as
engaged
in war crimes,
from
"inspecting"
UN
peacekeepers
in
Lebanon.
By
the logic of
the UN's
answer, even indicted
war criminals
could play
such an
inspecting
role in UN
Peacekeeping
missions.
In fact, while
in the UN
Security
Council
Thursday
morning
delegations
denounced
Ahmed Harum of
Sudan, UN
Peacekeeping
has at
least twice
given him free
flights in UN
helicopters,
including into
the killing
zone of Abyei,
to throw gas
on the fire.
The
head of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous
has refused to
answer Press
questions
about the UN's
role in Abyei,
about lessons
learned from
the UN's
introduction
of cholera to
Haiti and Ban's
supposed Human
Rights Due
Diligence
Policy, click
here.
With
regard to
Shavendra
Silva, even
when several
South Asian
Permanent
Representatives
came out
against his
service on
Ban's Senior
Advisory
Group on
Peacekeeping
Operations,
Ban told Inner
City Press he
could
do nothing, it
was up to
member states.
Silva
even was
allowed to
appear in the
UN's Dag
Hammarskjold
Library
Auditorium to
screen a
government
film denying
war crimes.
Press
criticism of
how and why
that screening
happened led
to anti-Press
moves that
continue to
this way --
but which are
now
being fought.
Here
was Thursday's
evening's UN
answer to
Inner City
Press' noon
question, note
the last line:
From:
UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Thu, Dec
13, 2012
at 5:33 PM
Subject: Your
question at
the noon
briefing - a
reminder
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
The
Spokesperson
later said
that Major
General
Shavendra
Silva was part
of the
Military-Police
Advisors
Community
(MPAC)
delegation
visiting
the United
Nations
Interim Force
Mission in
Lebanon from
28 Nov - 4
Dec 2012. The
official MPAC
programme
included
briefings and
visits
to UN
positions. The
MPAC is a
group
comprising
permanent
missions'
military
attaches and
police
advisors, and
the UN had no
authority
over the group
of visitors
that included
Gen. Silva.
"Had
no authority?"
The UN has no
say over who
visits and
inspects
its
peacekeepers?
Watch this
site.
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