In S. Sudan, UN Admits "Error" of Trucks of Guns by Road, Haiti Cholera
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, March 12, 2014 -- The UN issued a rare admission of error on
March 6, saying that contrary to policy weapons were moved by road, not air,
in South Sudan for the Ghana peacekeepers recently arrived from Cote
d'Ivoire.
The UN issued this
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Juba, 6 March 2014: It is the policy of the United Nations Mission in South
Sudan (UNMISS) that during the crisis in South Sudan all arms and ammunition
for peacekeeping contingents are flown into respective areas of deployment
and not taken by road. This is an important security measure.
In connection with the transport of cargo of general goods belonging to the
Ghanaian battalion on its way to Bentiu, several containers were wrongly
labelled and inadvertently contained weapons and ammunition. This is
regrettable. The Ghanaian troops are part of the surge of UNMISS troops to
assist South Sudan and the goods were en route to Bentiu, passing through
Rumbek.
UN Headquarters intends to dispatch a high level investigation team to look
into this matter on an urgent basis, in cooperation with the Government of
South Sudan.
Pressed for more details, spokesperson Martin Nesirky declined. One
wondered, if the UN can in essence apologize so quickly for weapons
transport in South Sudan, why not for the 8,000 people killed by the cholera
introduced into Haiti?
Then Inner City Press was sent links to the photos of the (UN) trucks
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Perhaps it's that the UN was caught red-handed, so to speak. So now what?
Watch this site.
Received on Tue Mar 11 2014 - 19:14:24 EDT