By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 2 --
The day after
Sri Lanka was
reviewed, in
speeches
no longer than
72 second
each, in the
UN Human
Rights
Council's
Universal
Periodic
Review process,
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey
about the long
delayed report
into the UN's
own actions
and inaction
in Sri Lanka
in 2009, and
whether it
will be
public.
Del
Buey said it
is not
finished; he
did not answer
if it will be
made
public, as was
a similar
report on the
UN's actions
and inactions
in
Rwanda in
1994.
Pressed, Del
Buey
disclaimed any
connection
between
the UPR
process and
the report,
which was
supposed to be
done by
Thoraya Obaid
but was
switched to
Charles
Petrie, now
working in
Myanmar.
Two
hours later
Inner City
Press put the
questions to
Marzuki
Darusman,
chairman of
the UN Panel
of Experts on
Sri Lanka.
Darusman gave
a
press
conference
about North
Korea at which
Inner City
Press asked
him about
disappearances.
Afterward,
Inner City
Press asked
him about
Sri Lanka and
the delayed
Petrie report.
"I
need to
check,"
Darusman said,
of the Petrie
report. Of his
two
fellow Panel
members he
said, "We are
following this
very
closely, the
former panel
members."
Inner
City Press
told Darusman
of Ban
Ki-moon's
definition of
accountability,
provided to
Inner City
Press on
October 17,
2012 by
his spokesman
Martin
Nesirky: it
means "not
letting deeds
go
unmarked,
unnoticed, sot
there is no
impunity, so
you can move
on to
reconciliation."
It means
"different
things in
different
contexts."
Darusman
shook
his head and
said,
"accountability
means to
explain what
happened on
the 40,000
deaths." That
has not been
done. Watch
this site.
