MONUSCO, UN's Ladsous ignore Security Council over FDLR Italy trip
News Of Rwanda Group - 23 hours ago
FDLR combatants in Mwenge, located in South Kivu province, eastern DRC
The head of UN peacekeeping operations Herve Ladsous ignored a UN
Security Council refusal to grant a waiver to travel to Italy for
senior commanders of Rwandan FDLR rebels. The Frenchman is now in the
source of a serious political scandal for the UN.
It has emerged that on June 24, Ladsous wrote a note to the Security
Council requesting for a waiver to allow General Gaston Iyamuremye
(aka Rumuli Michel) and his delegation to go to Rome to meet members
of the Catholic lay group Sant'Egidio, which has been the biggest
clandestine funding mobiliser for the FDLR for many years. Ladsous
said the FDLR would leave the next day June 25.
However, without waiting for response from the Security Council as
required by the sanctions resolution which imposes travel bans on FDLR
commanders, Ladsous gave go ahead for MONUSCO to facilitate General
Iyamuremye and delegation to fly out. The same day on June 25, Ladsous
received a response from the Security Council sanctions committee
informing him that the waiver request had been rejected.
In short, General Iyamuremye was not allowed to leave DRC bushes, and
if he did, he is supposed to have been arrested by the Congolese
government or MONUSCO. The FDLR delegation did indeed travel to Rome
and is there since Thursday June 26, expected to leave June 28.
Ladsous, the former French envoy to UN during the genocide in Rwanda,
said in his note that the FDLR were going to Rome as part of "ongoing
FDLR disarmament and surrender process" and to consider "the options
available to achieve this objective." Diplomats at the UN headquarters
are furious that Ladsous who is in essence their employee would take a
decision ignoring Security Council directives.
"...we were informed that MONUSCO did not even wait for the decision of
the 1533 committee before starting the process of airlifting a UN
sanctioned individual, as well as other FDLR leaders, including
individuals wanted by the government of Rwanda for their
responsibility in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi," said Eugene
Richard Gasana, Rwanda's UN envoy. Rwanda is on the 15-member Security
Council and chairs the sanctions committee.
Gasana added: "Indeed, while the request of the travel ban was
pending, MONUSCO transported, by helicopter, Gaston Lyamuremye from
Kanyabayonga to Goma, where he was transported to Kinshasa, though
Kisangani, in a MONUSCO aircraft."
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.
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