UN’s Ladsous Explains Peacekeepers Rape Due To Lack of “Distraction” or “Comfort,” Proposes R&R
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UN Bans Qs to Ladsous On CAR Whistleblower, He Links Rapes to Lack of “Distraction” and “R&R,“ Says Won’t "Deflower” Subject
By Matthew Russell Lee - Published on 11 Sep 2015
UNITED
NATIONS, September 11 – When peacekeepers from France allegedly raped
children in the Central African Republic and the UN learned about it
more than a year ago, the UN and UNICEF did nothing, until French UN
Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous asked to fire the whistleblower Anders
Kompass in March of this year.
Babacar Gaye but not Ladsous was
fired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; Inner City Press obtained
and put Gaye’s letter online here (credited here and here) citing
systemic problems.
Before Ladsous’ carefully controlled four
day visit to the country - no questions on the peacekeeper rapes,
colonial photographs sent out - UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told
Inner City Press, which asked, that Ladsous would take questions when he
returned, including about peacekeepers’ sexual abuse.
But when
Ladsous appears at the September 11 UN noon briefing, UN Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric for the second time did not allow Inner City Press to
ask Ladsous a single question. Dujarric gave the first question to the
UN Correspondents Association, which after a perfunctory questions about
the number of sexual abuse cases said its “real” question was if
Ladsous will meet Obama. (Yes, apparently, and inappropriately, see
below).
Inner City Press prepared to ask Ladsous an obvious
question: what is his response to appearing in at least two UN Dispute
Tribunal rulings as having tried to get the whistleblower Kompass fired?
But Dujarric gave the second question to a Reuters reporter who has
previously channeled Ladsous, then to Agence France Presse, whose UN
reporter in 2011 asked UNCA’s board to act on Inner City Press’
reporting on Ladsous.
