On the same day the UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon said its review of its actions and inactions in Sri Lanka will
be finished in the second quarter of 2013, it also claimed that it had
no power over, and could not stop, General Shavendra Silva of the Sri
Lanka Army, depicted in Ban's report on Sri Lanka as engaged in war
crimes, from "inspecting" UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
By the logic of the UN's answer, even indicted war criminals could play such an inspecting role in UN Peacekeeping missions.
In fact, while in the UN Security Council Thursday morning delegations denounced Ahmed Harum of Sudan, UN Peacekeeping has at least twice given him free flights in UN helicopters, including into the killing zone of Abyei, to throw gas on the fire.
The head of UN Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous has refused to answer Press questions about the UN's role in Abyei, about lessons learned from the UN's introduction of cholera to Haiti and Ban's supposed Human Rights Due Diligence Policy.
With regard to Shavendra Silva, even when several South Asian Permanent Representatives came out against his service on Ban's Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations, Ban told Inner City Press he could do nothing, it was up to member states.
Silva even was allowed to appear in the UN's Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium to screen a government film denying war crimes. Press criticism of how and why that screening happened led to anti-Press moves that continue to this way -- but which are now being fought. (Inner City Press)
By the logic of the UN's answer, even indicted war criminals could play such an inspecting role in UN Peacekeeping missions.
In fact, while in the UN Security Council Thursday morning delegations denounced Ahmed Harum of Sudan, UN Peacekeeping has at least twice given him free flights in UN helicopters, including into the killing zone of Abyei, to throw gas on the fire.
The head of UN Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous has refused to answer Press questions about the UN's role in Abyei, about lessons learned from the UN's introduction of cholera to Haiti and Ban's supposed Human Rights Due Diligence Policy.
With regard to Shavendra Silva, even when several South Asian Permanent Representatives came out against his service on Ban's Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations, Ban told Inner City Press he could do nothing, it was up to member states.
Silva even was allowed to appear in the UN's Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium to screen a government film denying war crimes. Press criticism of how and why that screening happened led to anti-Press moves that continue to this way -- but which are now being fought. (Inner City Press)
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