UN
Peacekeeping
in DRC Under
Ladsous Won't
Explain French
Domination
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 6 --
If the UN
Security
Council had
gone on a trip
to Iraq to
visit "its"
UNAMI
peacekeeping
mission, would
the United
States have
been allowed
to alone
hand-pick
which media
could go on
the UN plane
and cover the
trip?
That
is what was
allowed to
happen on the
Security
Council's
current trip
to Africa. The
UN
has admitted,
on camera,
that France
was allowed to
pick which
media would
fly in the UN
plane,
from Kinshasa
to Goma to
Kigali to
Entebbe to
Addis Ababa.
Thus
the UN (and
its Security
Council) have
enshrined
FranceAfrique,
and
colonialism.
How can it be
justified?
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
cut off the
question,
telling Inner
City Press
that the other
correspondents
in
the room
didn't care to
hear about
Inner City
Press' travel
arrangements,
or lack
thereof. Video
here.
So
Inner City
Press has
put the
question to
Martin Kobler,
the UN's top
envoy in the
Council trip's
first stop,
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo.
As luck would
have it,
Kobler was
previously the
top envoy
in Iraq. Would
he have
accepted a
"Security
Council" trip
with media
hand picked
only by the
US?
But
Kobler hasn't
answered. Nor
has his
MONUSCO
provided any
transcript
of what its Dee
Brillenburg
Wurth "told
reporters,"
about
M23 child
soldiers
coming from
and being
trained by
Rwanda, and
the
DRC being
blameless.
(See hand-picked
Reuters piece
here.)
Kobler tweeted
that his head
of office in
Goma
Ray Torres was
updating the
Council about
negotiations
involving Mai
Mai Cheka,
sanctioned for
mass rape.
No
clarification,
or transcript,
has been
provided.
Will it now,
that France's
Genocide
Joyride has
moved to to
Rwanda?
A
press
conference was
held at the
Goma airport;
Kobler tweeted
a
photograph but
hasn't
answered why
France was
allowed to
pick the
journalists to
cover the
trip. The UN's
Radio Okapi,
during the
Goma
press
conference,
was
broadcasting...
sports. Call
it bread and
circuses.
So
is the UN, or
at least UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous,
the
fourth
Frenchman in a
row to head
DPKO, a
vehicle for
neo-colonialism?
Is this, as
some now say,
just France's
Genocide
Joyride? It
seems these
questions
should be
answered.
Watch this
site.
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