UN
Asks for
Questions on
Repatriation
from DRC Then
Doesn't Answer
Them, As on
GoE Report
UNITED
NATIONS, July
3 -- The UN
asks for
questions, and
then doesn't
answer
them.
Even
on whether it
is providing
military
support to
Congolese Army
units
now
named as
engaged in
rape, child
soldier
recruitment,
support of
the FDLR
militia and
conflict gold
mining,
there has been
no
answer
from the
Department of
Peacekeeping
Operations for
four days.
But
on Wednesday
morning its
mission in the
Congo,
MONUSCO, put
online a
chart of
repatriation
of combatants
of “Foreign
Armed Groups”
(it
used that
acronym)
and said, ask
your questions
to @MONUSCO.
The
timing and
content of the
chart were
questionable.
But there was
an
even simpler
question: who
were the 30
“others”
listed in the
chart, not
from Rwanda,
Uganda or
Burundi?
And
so the
question was
asked, on
their web page,
directly through
Twitter by
the Free UN
Coalition for
Access
@FUNCA_info,
and finally
by Inner City
Press. But
despite
MONUSCO asking
for questions,
it did
not answer
them.
Back
on January 30,
2013, MONUSCO
issued a press
release
denying a
report
by Inner City
Press
concerning the
Congolese Army
supporting the
FDLR
militia.
Now,
the Group
of Experts
report the
full text of
which
Inner City
Press
exclusively
put online
confirms just
this. Any
response from
MONUSCO? Watch
this site
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