By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 1 --
When Kofi
Annan came to
the UN
to sign books,
it was in
cavernous
Conference
Room 2 and the
questions were
about
Syria and not
retaliation.
When
UN
whistleblower
Kathryn
Bolkovac
came to the UN
on Friday, her
book
signing and
Q&A
session was in
the UN
bookstore. But
it too was
packed. Photo
here.
Bolkovac
did not pull
any punches,
saying that
high UN
leadership
must be held
accountable
"and fired."
Many
of the abuses,
not only
sexual but in
Rwanda and
Srebrenica,
happened
under Kofi
Annan, and
they have
continued
under Ban
Ki-moon, in
Haiti
and the Congo.
The
UN's claim of
zero tolerance
is misleading,
as the UN does
not require
Troop
Contributing
Countries to
prosecute
those it
repatriates,
and
does not
report to the
public the
outcome or
even the
nationality of
the accused.
Inner
City Press
asked Bolkovac
if she
believes that
the Department
of
Peacekeeping
Operations,
now under its
fourth
Frenchman in a
row
Herve Ladsous,
should require
TCC to have
baseline
whistleblower
protections in
place.
Yes,
she said,
citing a long
time proposal
by Senator
Patrick Leahy
of
Vermont, the
Civilial
Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction
Act. This
hasn't
been enacted,
she said, due
to spurious
claims by the
CIA.
But
what excuse
does the UN
have? #LADSOUS2013.
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