Kofi Annan: War Criminal
The Sunday Times (UK) makes a pretty good case that Kofi Annan has been a war criminal [h/t to Little Green Footballs and MA] in its piece, "Is there blood on his hands? THE CASE AGAINST KOFI ANNAN". Here are some excerpts:
Update: MA writes:
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[B]ehind the honorifics and the accolades lies a darker story: of incompetence, mismanagement and worse. Annan was the head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) between March 1993 and December 1996. The Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 men and boys and the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda happened on his watch. ...The details provided by The Times are painful.
Annan’s term has also been marked by scandal: from the sexual abuse of women and children in the Congo by UN peacekeepers to the greatest financial scam in history, the UN-administered oil-for-food programme. Arguably, a trial of the UN would be more apt than a leaving party.
The charge sheet would include guarding its own interests over those it supposedly protects; endemic opacity and lack of accountability; obstructing investigations, promoting the inept and marginalising the dedicated.
Update: MA writes:
The article (apart from page 3) is actually merely an extract from this book:
Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, by Adam LeBor, is published by Yale University Press on October 31, price £17.99.
Category: United Nations Posted on
Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:00am
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