Why does Ladsous refuse, on numerous occasions, to answer questions about Minova?
The Congolese Army, "raped women with extreme brutatlity." The UN works in support of the Congolese army under the acronym MONUSCO.
Ladsous has always been a murky figure, and trying to track his history as a diplomat finds Ladsous working mostly behind the scenes as France's Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in the period from 1992-97, when central Africa first experienced a continuing holocaust of unbelievable proportions, beginning with the genocide in Rwanda.
Ignoring for now France's covert role of arming and training Hutu Interahamwe in Rwanda during this period, it is important to understand how the United Nations first became involved.
In 1993 Rwanda and Uganda requested the deployment of UN observers along the border to monitor the activities of the Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) who were fighting with the Hutu Armed Forces of Rwanda along the Ugandan border. Food shortages, economic collapse, and frustration over 30 years of exile for the Tutsi added to the volatile equation, which began when the exiled RPF invaded Rwanda in 1991.
As a result, the Security Council, of which France and the United States were and continue to be permanent members, established the UN Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda (UNOMUR) in June 1993 to make sure that no military assistance reached Rwanda from Uganda.
Tanzania and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) eventually brokered a peace agreement in August 1993 that came to be known as the Arusha Peace Accord, named for the city in Tanzania where the talks took place. The peace agreement called for free elections in Rwanda, the return of refugees to their homelands, a transitional government, and the all-but-impossible integration of the opposing armies.
October of 1993 marked the creation of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) to monitor the implementation of the Arusha agreements. Resolution 872 authorized the deployment of a battalion composed of soldiers from Belgium and Bangladesh, along with a "weapons secure" area in the capitol city of Kigali. Troop build-up was slow and the transitional government and secure area never materialized.
In April 1994, genocidal forces were unleashed when the plane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down by still unknown entities while returning from Tanzania. See the PBS documentary Ghosts of Rwanda for a chilling chronology of events leading to ethic killings that included Agathe Uwilingiyimana, the moderate Hutu Prime Minister of Rwanda, unarmed Belgian peacekeepers, and eventually up to 1,000,000 others.
UNAMIR, under Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire, and through a series of Security Council Resolutions, was decapitated. Dallaire's troop strength was reduced from 2,548 to 270 during the height of the genocide. See April Resolution 912 and May Resolution 918, which called for an increase of 5,500 troops after the extent of the slaughter became evident. The troops never arrived, since none were available.
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