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On CAR
Rapes, UN
Report Under
Embargo,
Broken,
Ladsous
Airbrushed Out
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 17 --
The UN's twice
delayed report
on
peacekeepers'
rapes in the
Central
African
Republic and
the UN's cover-ups
is being
released
today. It was
pre-given to
Foreign
Policy, only a
portion of it.
Still, the UN
at 10 am said
it remained
under embargo
until noon.
Whatever the
merits, this
report
therefore for
now focuses on
the portion
given to FP
and the spin
put on it.
Amazingly,
FP does not
even MENTION
the official
responsible
for UN
Peacekeeping,
Herve Ladsous.
This is more
telling, or
troubling,
given that
Ladsous is
cited in two
separate UN
Dispute
Tribunal
rulings as
having tried
to get Anders
Kompass fired
for having
released
information
about alleged
child rapes by
peacekeepers
from Ladsous'
native France.
How can this
be air-brushed
out?
Ladsous
on September
11, 2015, on
camera in the
UN Press
Briefing Room,
linked the CAR
rapes with
“R&R.” Video here.
It seems
FP, and other
scribes, never
reported this.
In fact,
Agence France
Presse at
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's rare
press
conference on
December 16 --
the day BEFORE
the CAR report
was released,
or given --
praised Ban
for his
response to
sexual abuse.
Video
here. (Ban
and his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric refused
to take a
question
from Inner
City Press,
despite
calling twice
on the same UN
Correspondents
Association
scribe.)
Now one
assumes that
instead of Ban
it will be
Dujarric, or
perhaps even
HIS deputy, to
pick and
choose and
fend off
questions
about the
pre-spun
report at
noon. We'll be
there: watch
this site.
[The Free
UN Coalition
for Access
notes that
most
organization,
including
international
organization
like the IMF,
lift embargoes
when they are
broken,
partial as
here partially
and
self-servingly
broken. But
this is
today's UN; in
any event, the
above report
for this
reason is
based on the
partial
self-serving
leak / embargo
break.]
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