United Madness - Despite Military Atrocities, Ivory Coast Elected as UN Disarmament Commission Vice-Chair.(UW).Despite massive abuses by its military recently committed during a brutal crackdown, Côte d’Ivoire has just been elected by the UN to serve as Vice-Chair of its Disarmament Commission, for its upcoming 2013 substantive session, a decision eliciting sharp protest from the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, which called for the move to be reversed.
“A government whose military has just committed widespread human rights abuses — including arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion, inhuman treatment, and torture — should not be made vice-chair of a U.N. arms control body. The U.N. should recognize that it has sent absolutely the wrong message at the wrong time, cancel the decision, and apologize to the victims,” said Hillel Neuer, UN Watch executive director.
Abuses by the Côte d’Ivoire military were documented the Guardian, citing a Nov. 19th report by Human Rights Watch.
President Ouattara’s rule is increasingly precarious, according to another Guardian article, with his government accepting military help from a rebel group now accused of carrying out mass atrocities against members of ethnic groups known to be allied with former president Laurent Gbagbo, now under detention by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.Hmmmm.....Is this 'madness' contagious?Read te full story here.
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