EXCLUSIVE: UN peacekeeping chief secures travel pass for FDLR president to Italy
News Of Rwanda Group - 21 minutes ago
The leader of the Rwandan FDLR rebels, General Gaston Iyamuremye (aka
Rumuli Michel) has been allowed to travel to Italy on a travel pass
provided by the French head of UN peacekeeping operation, a decision
that contravenes UN sanctions against its commanders and the group.
In December 2010, the UN Security Council added General Gaston
Iyamuremye to the list of FDLR commanders who are considered
international pariahs. General Iyamuremye is currently the leader of
the democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda whose members
formed the execution manpower for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda against
Tutsis, then fled to Zaire at the time.
However, News of Rwanda has obtained a copy of the travel pass granted
by Herve Ladsous, a French national, heading the entire UN
peacekeeping operations from New York. UN sanctions require that the
mission in DR Congo, known as MONUSCO, under Ladsous, does not allow
any sanctioned individuals to leave Congo.
On the classified travel pass, Ladsous gives General Iyamuremye
permission to travel to Italy. He will be meeting members of the
Catholic lay group Sant'Egidio, which has been the biggest clandestine
funding mobiliser for the FDLR for many years. The travel pass allows
General Iyamuremye to be in Italy between June 26-27.
General Iyamuremye is heading a delegation of senior FDLR commanders.
According to our sources, officials from DR Congo and some countries
within the Southern Africa Development community (SADC) are also in
Italy. However, we cannot confirm if they will be at the same venue as
the FDLR.
Ladsous writes: "The exemption is ... for the sole purpose of allowing
Mr Iyamuremye [to be in] Rome on 26 June, by departing the Democratic
Republic of the Congo by air on 25 June and returning by air to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately after...."
Is Ladsous implementing French policy?
However, the pass does not say when exactly Gen Iyamuremye will return
to DRC, neither does it say by which air transport means he will use.
The note does not say if he will use UN transport of chartered
flights.
The UN peacekeeping department has come under scrutiny as well due to
the man heading it, Frenchman Hervé Ladsous. He was France's UN envoy
during the genocide against Tutsis during which French commandos aided
the genocide militia to hunt and kill Tutsis. Critics accuse Ladsous
of consistently ignoring Rwanda's plea for the UN to act on FDLR.
According to the reviewed mandate, MONUSCO should have begun targeting
the FDLR with military action to force it to demobilize and repatriate
back home, or be forced to surrender. The FDLR were supposed to follow
after the end of the M23 rebels. But there is growing skepticism in
the region that MONUSCO could do anything of the kind.
MONUSCO and DRC government defended the delay that they had to begin
with M23, then Ugandan ADF rebels, and eventually FDLR. However,
recently, MONUSCO announced it was going after other three Congolese
self-defense groups, which have been battling FDLR for years.
Aid agencies and local civil society in DRC accuse the 22,000 strong
force of looking away as Rwandan rebels roam Congo's jungles - and
planning to attack Rwanda.
Rwanda's envoy at the UN Eugene Richard Gasana in November last year
angrily told the UN Security Council that nothing was happening on the
ground despite MONUSCO public statements that it was attacking FDLR.
Gasana was speaking at a Security Council session on the
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) initiative. Gasana said the initiative
should not be held hostage of political interests of the Council's
permanent members. He was referring to the France, United States, UK,
China and Russia.
"...we once again call upon permanent members to refrain from using the
veto, especially in case of genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity," said Gasana. "It is unfortunate that perpetrators of the
genocide in Rwanda, the FDLR, are still roaming freely in the east of
the DR Congo."
History of UN support for FDLR
Rwanda's diplomat said the Security Council has never held MONUSCO
accountable, allowing the massively funded mission to do as it pleases
including cases when it has not done anything on Rwandan FDLR militia
group for past 13years.
The latest revelations come amidst counter accusations from Kigali and
Kinshasa that each side has been supporting the other's rebels.
News of Rwanda has documented a pattern suggesting the UN mission in
DRC has been backing the FDLR rebels for years since its previous
mandate called MONUC.
The UN troops patrol areas controlled by the Rwandan militia and are
said to provide them with logistical support - instead of combating
them.
In a particularly embarrassing case in October 2009, MONUC, the
predecessor of MONUSCO, airlifted two European doctors to treat FDLR
supreme commander Sylvestre Mudacumura. Doctors Jerome Gasana and
Francois Goujon arrived in DRC via Kisangani, from where they were
airlifted to Lubutu in Walikale region. The operation was handled by
Christian Manhal - MONUC's coordinator in East DRC at the time.
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