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    On Burundi, Ladsous Memo, Full Text Here, Says Wouldn't or Couldn't Stop Genocide By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, January 12 -- After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on New Year's Eve issued a canned statement praising the Burundi “talks” held in Entebbe, Uganda, multiple sources told Inner City Press not only were these not talks but rather a photo op -- it was also badly and some said self-servingly organized. The January 6 session announced for Arusha did not happen. But on January 6 UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous wrote to the UN Security Council how his Department couldn't or wouldn't stop genocide, if it were to progress, in Burundi. VICE and RFI have written on it; Inner City Press is putting the entire Ladsous document online here. We'll have more on this. On January 11, Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the killing over the weekend of cameraman Alfred Baranburiya, and what the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights staff in Burundi are doing. There was no update. Nor on Inner City Press' question about Burundian troops in AMISOM in Somalia not getting correctly paid and, it's said, being ordered not to use the Internet. Dujarric called this too “granular” to answer. Now Burundian civil society has written to Ban seeking the repatriation of the country's peacekeepers. Inner City Press has put the letter from Vital Nshimirimana to Ban online here, and will be asking the UN about it. Watch this site. On January 8, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric for Ban's view, video here from Min 1:07, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi… there was a press conference by the Ugandan mediation of the Burundi crisis today, and they seen… or they… they… among other things, it appears that the Burundi side, the Government side, is asking for a change of venue, and the real issue seems to be whether anyone that the Government says was in any way involved in the events of May should not be part of the talks. And I just wondered, is Mr. Benomar involved at all in this process? It seems like the key point is, who's going to participate? And also, what, what does the UN know about this desired change of venue? Spokesman: Sure. Let me, I'll check with Mr. Benomar's team. Six hours later and counting, nothing. On January 4, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the threats to peacekeepers, the challenged deployments to the UN mission in the Central African Republic and reports of rapes largely in opposition neighborhoods. The UN Spokesman had no comment on the rapes, or the threats; he said "I've mentioned the case of the Lt. Colonel, I have no further update from that, or on the other two officials you've mentioned.... The Secretary General's Special Adviser is in New York and I believe you'll probably hear from the Security Council President that they will hear from him at some point in the coming days." On January 7, with the UN still not having responded on the rapes, Inner City Press for the Free UN Coalition for Access asked Dujarric about a Burundian minister's threat against the RFI journalist who compiled the rape report. The minister said, "the authorized government services will take the necessary measures to deal with this journalist’s disruptive activities." Inner City Press read this quote to the UN spokesman, who replied the UN is against intimidation. He still had nothing on the rapes. Video here, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi. On Monday I'd asked you about this story about rapes by the Government militia in opposition neighbourhoods by an RFI (Radio France Internationale) reporter. And now basically the Government has said that they will… will… I'm going to read the direct quote because it's pretty troubling… crack down on or… or take care of this reporter. They said… they said, the authorized Government services will take the necessary measure

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    On Burundi, Ladsous Memo, Full Text Here, Says Wouldn't or Couldn't Stop Genocide By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, January 12 -- After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on New Year's Eve issued a canned statement praising the Burundi “talks” held in Entebbe, Uganda, multiple sources told Inner City Press not only were these not talks but rather a photo op -- it was also badly and some said self-servingly organized. The January 6 session announced for Arusha did not happen. But on January 6 UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous wrote to the UN Security Council how his Department couldn't or wouldn't stop genocide, if it were to progress, in Burundi. VICE and RFI have written on it; Inner City Press is putting the entire Ladsous document online here. We'll have more on this. On January 11, Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the killing over the weekend of cameraman Alfred Baranburiya, and what the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights staff in Burundi are doing. There was no update. Nor on Inner City Press' question about Burundian troops in AMISOM in Somalia not getting correctly paid and, it's said, being ordered not to use the Internet. Dujarric called this too “granular” to answer. Now Burundian civil society has written to Ban seeking the repatriation of the country's peacekeepers. Inner City Press has put the letter from Vital Nshimirimana to Ban online here, and will be asking the UN about it. Watch this site. On January 8, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric for Ban's view, video here from Min 1:07, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi… there was a press conference by the Ugandan mediation of the Burundi crisis today, and they seen… or they… they… among other things, it appears that the Burundi side, the Government side, is asking for a change of venue, and the real issue seems to be whether anyone that the Government says was in any way involved in the events of May should not be part of the talks. And I just wondered, is Mr. Benomar involved at all in this process? It seems like the key point is, who's going to participate? And also, what, what does the UN know about this desired change of venue? Spokesman: Sure. Let me, I'll check with Mr. Benomar's team. Six hours later and counting, nothing. On January 4, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the threats to peacekeepers, the challenged deployments to the UN mission in the Central African Republic and reports of rapes largely in opposition neighborhoods. The UN Spokesman had no comment on the rapes, or the threats; he said "I've mentioned the case of the Lt. Colonel, I have no further update from that, or on the other two officials you've mentioned.... The Secretary General's Special Adviser is in New York and I believe you'll probably hear from the Security Council President that they will hear from him at some point in the coming days." On January 7, with the UN still not having responded on the rapes, Inner City Press for the Free UN Coalition for Access asked Dujarric about a Burundian minister's threat against the RFI journalist who compiled the rape report. The minister said, "the authorized government services will take the necessary measures to deal with this journalist’s disruptive activities." Inner City Press read this quote to the UN spokesman, who replied the UN is against intimidation. He still had nothing on the rapes. Video here, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi. On Monday I'd asked you about this story about rapes by the Government militia in opposition neighbourhoods by an RFI (Radio France Internationale) reporter. And now basically the Government has said that they will… will… I'm going to read the direct quote because it's pretty troubling… crack down on or… or take care of this reporter. They said… they said, the authorized Government services will take the necessary measure

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    On Burundi, Ladsous Memo, Full Text Here, Says Wouldn't or Couldn't Stop Genocide By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, January 12 -- After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on New Year's Eve issued a canned statement praising the Burundi “talks” held in Entebbe, Uganda, multiple sources told Inner City Press not only were these not talks but rather a photo op -- it was also badly and some said self-servingly organized. The January 6 session announced for Arusha did not happen. But on January 6 UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous wrote to the UN Security Council how his Department couldn't or wouldn't stop genocide, if it were to progress, in Burundi. VICE and RFI have written on it; Inner City Press is putting the entire Ladsous document online here. We'll have more on this. On January 11, Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the killing over the weekend of cameraman Alfred Baranburiya, and what the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights staff in Burundi are doing. There was no update. Nor on Inner City Press' question about Burundian troops in AMISOM in Somalia not getting correctly paid and, it's said, being ordered not to use the Internet. Dujarric called this too “granular” to answer. Now Burundian civil society has written to Ban seeking the repatriation of the country's peacekeepers. Inner City Press has put the letter from Vital Nshimirimana to Ban online here, and will be asking the UN about it. Watch this site. On January 8, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric for Ban's view, video here from Min 1:07, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi… there was a press conference by the Ugandan mediation of the Burundi crisis today, and they seen… or they… they… among other things, it appears that the Burundi side, the Government side, is asking for a change of venue, and the real issue seems to be whether anyone that the Government says was in any way involved in the events of May should not be part of the talks. And I just wondered, is Mr. Benomar involved at all in this process? It seems like the key point is, who's going to participate? And also, what, what does the UN know about this desired change of venue? Spokesman: Sure. Let me, I'll check with Mr. Benomar's team. Six hours later and counting, nothing. On January 4, Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the threats to peacekeepers, the challenged deployments to the UN mission in the Central African Republic and reports of rapes largely in opposition neighborhoods. The UN Spokesman had no comment on the rapes, or the threats; he said "I've mentioned the case of the Lt. Colonel, I have no further update from that, or on the other two officials you've mentioned.... The Secretary General's Special Adviser is in New York and I believe you'll probably hear from the Security Council President that they will hear from him at some point in the coming days." On January 7, with the UN still not having responded on the rapes, Inner City Press for the Free UN Coalition for Access asked Dujarric about a Burundian minister's threat against the RFI journalist who compiled the rape report. The minister said, "the authorized government services will take the necessary measures to deal with this journalist’s disruptive activities." Inner City Press read this quote to the UN spokesman, who replied the UN is against intimidation. He still had nothing on the rapes. Video here, transcript here: Inner City Press: On Burundi. On Monday I'd asked you about this story about rapes by the Government militia in opposition neighbourhoods by an RFI (Radio France Internationale) reporter. And now basically the Government has said that they will… will… I'm going to read the direct quote because it's pretty troubling… crack down on or… or take care of this reporter. They said… they said, the authorized Government services will take the necessary measure

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    Note by the Secretariat

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    Operations, the attached note is hereby circulated for the
    information of the members of the Security Council.

    6 January 2016

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