Strong Arm on Small Arms: Rift Within UN About Uganda's Involuntary Disarmament
of Karamojong Villages
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, June
21 -- As the United Nations prepares for a two-week conference on small arms,
questions about a UN-funded disarmament program in Uganda have gone unanswered,
including at a press conference mid-Wednesday. Amid happy talk about member
states reducing weapons, and side-questions about the 100,000 protest letters
the National Rifle Association has submitted, the reported abuse of the
Karamojong pastoralists has thus far not been on-the-record comment by the UN
Development Programme, which funds the involuntary disarmament being carried out
by the Ugandan People's Defense Force (UPDF) in conjunction with local militias
called Local Defense Units (LDUs).
That some
of the most detailed reports come from well-placed sources inside the UN may
reflect an intra-UN rift in how to engage with the Ugandan government's
strong-arm tactics. This is what Inner City Press has been told, by
knowledgeable sources including within the UN, and what it has for three days
asked for UNDP comment on:
--on May 19, 2006 in Jimos village in
Kotido sub-county in northern Uganda, the UPDF and LDUs encircled a village and
attacked to force the residents to turn over their weapons. Reportedly, four
people were killed by the UPDF / LDUs, including a 15-year old girl. Over 100
homes were burned and the village's protective fence was destroyed. Many
residents were taken and detained in the UPDF barracks in Kotido.
--Also on May 19, in Moroto district at
Loputiput and Longoleki village, in Nadunget sub county, the Ugandan army
encircled the village at 4 a.m.. People were ordered out of their huts and
beaten while the army searched the village. Although reportedly the army found
no weapons or ammunition, ten men from the village were taken and detained at
the Moroto army barracks.
--on May 26, 2006, in Loperot parish
similar disarmament attacks killed an old woman. Reportedly four women were
raped.
--On June 3, 2006 in Moroto District,
newly-disarmed villages began being attacked; since then a dozen other attacks
have occurred. Some background: on June 1, 2006, a local Karamajong who had
previously worked on a voluntary disarmament program saw what was occurring in
forced disarmament and so in order to save his village brought in a dozen guns
that were in his village. He then asked the UPDF / LDUs for protection against
other armed raiders. He was told they would not protect the village. On June 3
his village was attacked by armed raiders and he and some of his sons were
killed and 120 head of cattle were stolen. In Kotido district, over two dozen
such raids have occurred.
N.
Uganda per UNHCR
While
this inquiry at present is about what if anything did the UN and its agencies
know, and when did they know it, experts consulted about the context of the
narrative above point out that the treatment of the Karamojong has been un- or
under-reported due to their characterization as cattle rustlers rather than
pastoralists, like the Masai. The Karamojong are portrayed lagging behind the
wider narrative, popular at the World Bank and elsewhere, of Uganda as a UN- and
U.S.-supported success story albeit one with a one (or no) party state, the
single leader of which some Karamojong recently shot at. A question raised is
whether women and children should suffer this impacts, from a UN-funded program.
Military and human rights analysts note that the Ugandan army has had "slippage
in discipline" at least since its profitable incursions in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. There is much more to be reported, from Kampala and the
villages named above.
But at UN
Headquarters in New York, because the UN Development Programme funds this
disarmament program, Inner City Press emailed UNDP for comment, as well as for a
description of UNDP's procedures for overseeing the disarmament and other
programs that it funds. After allowing time for UNDP staff in New York to
contact their colleagues in Uganda, and specifying a Tuesday 5 p.m. deadline,
Inner City Press telephoned and spoke with a UNDP official who insisted on
anonymity, and used the words "on background" even for the generalities offered,
which included phrases such as "we are aware of violence" and "there are
challenges on the ground" and "we know that there are problems."
When
asked what UNDP is doing about these problems, the official said that UNDP
"maintains dialogue with its partners" and keeps this behind closed doors. But
now Inner City Press has been told that the UPDF disarmament program is slated
to be expanded, including with the use of helicopter gun ships. And so
ill-timed these voices are compelled to be raised. If the UN is providing
guidance, no one is hearing it.
Inner
City Press also raised this narrative to the spokesman for the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights, by email, to the director and spokespersons
for the children's agency UNICEF, who stated they will "revert" by week's end,
to the spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA and to the World Food
Programme. At the noon briefing on Wednesday, Inner City Press asked the
president-designate of the Small Arms Conference, Sri Lanka's permanent
representative to the UN Prasad Kariyawasam, what safeguards are in place for
such involuntary disarmament. His response was indirect, that while there is no
one entity overseeing the UN's disarmament efforts and no ombudsman, at the
upcoming conference "no government is prohibited from critically assessing
implementation" of disarmament. He added that "when we adopt a final document we
will perhaps address" the issues and "have remedies for alleviation of any
mishandling." (The questions and answers are in this
footage of the briefing,
from minutes 30 through 33 and 47 onwards.)
Inner
City Press asked how many countries the UN funds involuntary disarmament in. Amb.
Kariyawasam's co-briefer, who afterwards stated she has no business card from
the UN's Department of Disarmament Affairs, said the questions should be
directed to UNDP. When told that no on-the-record response had been
forthcoming, another staffer, Francois Coutu, said that since he used to work
for UNDP, he would try to get an answer. So too did the Office of the Spokesman
for the Secretary General. But this should not be like pulling teeth. And the
question, who is overseeing UNDP-funded involuntary disarmament programs, has
yet to be answered.
Mid-afternoon Wednesday, UNDP indirected asked for yet more time. Kofi Annan's
spokeswoman said, orally and in writing, that violence against civilians,
particularly women and children, is to be condemned. But by who? At 6 p.m. press
time, the Secretary General's spokesman's office provided an update, that "UNDP
is aware of these allegations and is looking into them," including by attempt to
contact an Eastern Uganda staff members. Inner City Press had previously emailed
this staff member, and received in return this response: "This
is an automatic reply. I am away from the office and unable to read my email. I
will read your message when I return on 23 June." And we will read UNDP's
on-the-record response on these issues, it is hoped. Developing...
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UN's Annan Concerned About Use of
Terror's T-Word to Repress, Wants Freedom of Information
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee at the U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, June 15 -- The UN's Kofi
Annan, with six months left in his term, answered twenty media questions on
Thursday. Most dealt with the issues of UN reform, and the triple B's of Bolton,
budget and Mark Malloch Brown. As
question 19 out of 20,
from Minute 51:15 through 55:50, Inner City Press asked about the
Secretary-General's recent
praise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's
members' initiatives against separatism, in light for example of Uzbekistan's
imprisonment and torture of opponents. The full Q & A is below.
Uzbek refugees
Mr. Annan
Mr.
Annan responded that he has been speaking with the High Commissioner for
refugees, Antonio Guterres, about Uzbekistan and both the bulk of those fleeing
and specifically the four Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan; he used the terms of art
enforced refoulement, "particularly if they may be at risk if they are sent back
against their will." The Secretary-General said he has in the past spoken with
the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov; perhaps that is needed again. Mr.
Annan said he's increasingly concerned with the "excesses" he's seen in the
fight against terrorism. "It's been too easy for some governments to put the T
word on someone and then move against them and expect that nobody asks
questions," he said, an apt description of China's use of the "E.T." word, East
Turkestan, as well as the usual lack of questions about Xinjiang and places like
it at the UN.
On Inner City Press's second
question, which Mr. Annan called the third, whether he support and will
implement a Freedom of Information Act during his final six months, Mr. Annan
asked for clarification, which was given by reference to the UN Staff Union's
report on internal justice and even the calls for transparency from US
Ambassador Bolton. "Yes,"
the Secretary-General said, "I think we
should be more forthcoming."
He mentioned that some documents would have
to be withheld, concerning confidential communications with heads of state.
That should be no obstacle or excuse: all FOI laws have exemptions, for
pre-decisional and other information, within an overarching presumption of a
fight to information, such as that contained, too vaguely, in Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Minutes later,
Inner City Press asked Ambassador Bolton if
he might work with Kofi Annan on a Freedom of Information mechanism. The
response was not yes, but neither was it no. Amb. Bolton referenced his meeting
Wednesday with the Staff Council, and said he'd follow up.
In more marginal news, just before the
Kofi Annan briefing, journalists were cleared from Room 226 so that a
bomb-sniffing dog could go through. Later by the 46th Street entrance, the dog
and his handler were interviewed. The former's name is Storm. Meanwhile Sandy
Berger floated off the UN grounds with a big name tag on, and no documents in
sight. In the basement, the plasma TV sign for a meeting of the Friends of the
International Criminal Court said, "Closed meeting." Some friends...
Later at the Security Council stakeout, the Palestinian Permanent Observed
answered Inner City Press' request for an update on whether a funding mechanism
for the Palestinian Authority, previously discussed at the UN, has been found.
No, was the answered, talks remain ongoing in Brussels.
Pakistan's UN envoy Munir
Akram played diplomat upstairs before the UN Correspondent's Association. When
Pakistan come forward with its candidate for Secretary-General, now that India
has? It is complicated, he said, while stating that no country with eyes on a
(permanent) Security Council seat should also field a candidate for Secretary
General. Inner City Press asked Ambassador Akram about Baluchistan, the few
English language articles regarding which invariably use the adjective restive,
as well as about
mass evictions of the poor in Karachi.
On the former, Amb. Akram spoke
dismissively of "three Sardars" who used to work with the government, but who
then wanted more money. Amb. Akram said that their
Baluchistan Liberation Army
has funding and arms from "outside sources." When Inner City Press pointedly
asked if that means India, Amb. Akram declined to answer. The evictions, he
said, probably relate to attempts to give the poor more rather than fewer
property rights -- a position
not shared by close observers.
Finally, Inner City Press asked Amb. Akram if Pakistan would consider as its S-G
candidate the human rights lawyer, previously UN Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir. "I suppose not,"
Amb. Akram answered dryly. Later over a Pakistani lunch he spoke of Somalia,
calling it "Taliban Two." Given the links between Pakistan's ISI and Taliban
One, the irony was as pungent as the spinach, yoghurt and rice. Let the Games
continue.
June 15, 2006 Question and
Answer
Inner
City Press question:
This is a question about Asia and human rights. The media in China and Central
Asia reported your remark earlier this week that you praised the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization in its meeting for its work against terrorism,
extremism and separatism. And it said that you praised this, as I am sure you
know, UNHCR has criticized Uzbekistan for requiring that people be deported and
locking them up. China has cracked down on its Uighur minority. So I wonder if
you have any guidance for the balance between human rights and fighting
terrorism and, totally separately, whether you would consider supporting a
freedom of information act at the United Nations in the six months that remain
to you, maybe even imposing it in the Secretariat, as an experiment? Those are
two different questions.
The
Secretary-General: May I ask for
clarification on your third question? What do you mean by “freedom of
information act at the UN”?
Inner City Press clarification:
Okay, I’m sorry. The Staff Union report that just came out suggested that
documents be made available not just on a whim, but as a right, to the media or
to the public, as many Member States have such a law. I think Mr. Bolton has
said, and a variety of people have said – and I think you even said in your
reform proposal that you would favour something like that. So I just wanted to
hear whether you would actually implement it.
The
Secretary-General: I think, on the
question of effective action against terrorism and civil liberties and human
rights, my position is very clear: that there can really be no tradeoff between
effective action against terrorism and civil liberties and human rights of the
individual, and that if we undermine human rights, if we undermine the rule of
law in our fight against terrorism, then we are giving the terrorists a victory
they could never have won alone. And this is why I’ve been quite concerned about
some of the excesses I’ve seen around the world when it comes to the fight
against terrorism. It’s been very easy for many Governments to just put the
T-word on someone and then move against them, and expect that nobody asks
questions. So we have to be very, very careful not to undermine the basic rule
of law in the fight against terrorism.
As to my message to the others, I think it was a
gathering that was going to talk about security and the fight against terrorism,
and it was to encourage them in that direction. I’m very much aware of the High
Commissioner’s difficulties with the Government you mentioned. I’ve had the
opportunity to speak to the President myself at the time when the bulk of them
were allowed to leave. And we are working on the four, and in fact the High
Commissioner, Mr. Guterres, spoke to me about it, that we should make sure that
there’s no enforced refoulement, particularly when they may be at risk if they
are sent back against their will. And not only that: he has made arrangements
with other Government that are willing to accept these four. So, it’s not that
they will be stateless; we have homes for them. So we are asking the Government
to hand them over to the High Commissioner for Refugees; and Mr. Guterres has
worked very hard and has homes for them, and I urge the Government to let them
go.
On your freedom of information act – or, freedom
of information in the sense of making information available – I think, as an
Organization, we are pretty open. In fact, sometimes I say this is one of those
buildings, [if] you have two copies, consider it published. And it’s all over.
But I think we should be more forthcoming. We should release as much information
as we can. Of course, there are certain informations that you cannot release,
because it does cause problems. Sometimes, some of you have asked
me what is the nature of your conversations with this
President or that Prime Minister or others, and I’ve had lots of confidential
discussions and others that I cannot release till much later. And so, we do have
rules where certain things are embargoed for a certain period. But beyond that,
we should be open and forthcoming. [Q19 of 20 in
www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=887]
UN Waffles on Human Rights in
Central Asia and China; ICC on Kony and a Hero from Algiers
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee at the U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, June 14 -- What is the place of human
rights among the UN's other goals? If Central Asia is the test, the results are
decidedly mixed. Wednesday at the noon briefing, Kofi Annan's spokesman read out
a statement from the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, urging the Kyrgyz government not
to deport four Uzbeks who "arrived in Kyrgyzstan in the immediate aftermath of
the violent events in Andijan in May 2005." Uzbekistan's Karimov regime has
pursued all opponents, getting a dozen returned for example from Ukraine.
Inner City Press has repeatedly asked
UNHCR headquarters in Geneva for some update on those deported from Ukraine.
"There is no update," has been the response. Another refugee from the region,
imam Hseyincan Celil who was pursued for raising his voice for China's Uighur
minority, was disappeared in Uzbekistan in April and has not been heard from
since. (CBC
radio report here;
Uzbek response
here.)
His relatives fear he will be deported or "refouled" to China, for more
permanent disappearance. Nevertheless, UNDP has said that Uzbekistan is making
much progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.
Karimov
& Hu Jintao
If UNHCR is the left hand and
UNDP is the right, Kofi Annan's Secretariat is supposed to be the heart or head
or both. But on Monday, the Secretary-General sent an unequivocal message of
congratulations to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a entity through which
China has gotten deportation and "refoulement" commitments from the Central
Asian states and Russia, and soon perhaps others. As
reported,
Mr. Annan praised the SCO's efforts against "terrorism, separatism and
extremism." Of course, Uzbekistan's Karimov would say his pursuit of opponents
is just that, part of the war on terror. That's what China says of the Uighurs,
using the loaded term East Turkestan.
At Wednesday's noon briefing,
Inner City Press
asked the spokesman about
this, and about Undersecretary General Gambari's current trip to Tajikistan. "Is
the issue of human rights being raised?" Perhaps Kofi will be addressing these
issues this week, mid-way through his last year as S-G.
Ambassador Bolton's meeting with the UN
Staff Union, which Inner City Press Tuesday night predicted, from hallways
sources, would take place in the Indonesia lounge on Wednesday, did in fact take
place. It was after 3 p.m., however, and not at 10 a.m. (parallel universe
reported on below). At 3:45, the president of the Staff Union and the ubiquitous
Judge Geoffrey Robertson emerged, saying it was a good first meeting. Judge
Robertson added, in response to Inner City Press' question about what other
member states they'd meet with, that there would be several.
Then
John Bolton stepped up to the impromptu Fox News camera and graded Mr. Annan
incomplete. At a stakeout on the Hariri investigation earlier on Wednesday,
Professor Bolton said that Mr. Brammertz' characterization of Syria's
cooperation as "generally satisfactory" was only praise in a pass - fail grading
system. He was also asked by AP about his previously-highlighted remark that
Malloch Brown's speech was the worse mistake by a senior UN official since 1989;
AP asked him to contrast to Rwanda. Bolton called that "incompetence and a lack
of political will," versus the speechmaker's "flat out mistake."
Inner City Press asked Ambassador Bolton
if the United States supports a Freedom of Information Act at the United
Nations, and John Bolton appeared to say yes. A flamboyant colleague points out
that the Deputy Secretary-General began speaking of a UN FOIA six months ago.
Another, of pragmatic stock, says that it's not who speaks first, but who gets
the job done. We'll see.
From the Department of Parallel
Universes, in the Indonesia Lounge mid-morning Wednesday, at least three
candidates for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women were campaigning by meeting with representatives of the voting
member states. The candidate from Slovenia had a staffer from the Slovene
mission working the phones. "Myanmar can't make it? We have a lunch at one.
Vietnam? Excellent." To those she met with, she made the identical small talk.
"I lobbied you on the Human Rights Council, and now I'm back asking for this.
But my candidate -- I mean, our candidate -- has a long history of advocating
for women."
In opposition to these smooth campaigns,
on a couch with a phone was a slight woman of proud bearing, alternately
speaking Arab, French and English. She met with a staffer from Ireland's
mission, and asked him about the status of woman in his country. In response
later to a reporter's questions, she explained that in her previous service as
vice-chairperson of CEDAW, she noticed that while predominantly Muslim countries
were invariably questioned about women's rights to abortion and in marriage,
such questions were rarely put to the representatives of "Christian countries."
And so she asked the questions, even to countries whose vote she seeks for
re-election.
Her name is Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani, a
lawyer in Algiers who had been in New York since mid-May. Of her service on
CEDAW she says that the problems of women in the developed and the developing
worlds are not the same. "They asked Eritria for employment statistics, when
the average woman has six or seven children and lives only into her 40s, often
dying of AIDS." As she spoke on this topic, on a bench in the basement outside
Conference Room 2, there were tears in her eyes. "The world can get along," she
said. And hearing her, one believes it.
Near press time, the Chief
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court emerged from the Security Council
to take the press' questions. Inner City Press asked his position on arresting
Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti and the three -- or two -- other Lord's Resistance
Army indictees. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo repeated that Sudan has agreed to make such
arrests. A colleague just back from Juba pointed out that "it is not Sudan, it
is not the central government there." The colleague's
reporting was detailed,
and raised during her absence in perhaps garbled form, to move the story
forward.
Inner City
Press asked directly what the Chief Prosecutor thought of the photograph of
South Sudan's vice president handing Joseph Kony money, variously described as
five or twenty thousand dollars. Trailing down the second floor hallway Mr.
Moreno-Ocampo and his former spokesman, Inner City Press asked about Peter Karim,
who according to DPKO holds the seven Nepali peacekeepers. What will happen next
remains to be seen. Meanwhile in DR Congo, not only do the seven UN peacekeepers
remain in captivity -- now there is
plague.
A colleague reporter just back from Kinshasa recounts that the plight of the
peacekeepers was not mentioned after the meetings with President Kabila, nor
with this "ex-warlord" vice presidents..
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