Thursday, 16 July 2009
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United Nations and Fiji Military Force Peacekeepers
There has been so much talk by the UN pertaining to the promotion of human rights, respect for the rule of law and democracy, just as there is a plethora of criticism on its ineffectiveness when it comes to ‘actively protecting’ same every time a tyrant deems necessary to usurp the authority of a democratically elected government and in the process create a rouge state cocooned from dethroning due to the flawed humanitarian and socioeconomic juxtaposing dilemmas faced by the UN
In a country like Fiji with more than half of the entire population already living in extreme poverty, with an illegal government that have no concern for its people nor the achievement of the previous lawful governments commitment on the MDG’s, the humanitarian and socioeconomic arguments do not withstand scrutiny.
If the UN keeps churning out words summit after summit, but fail to compel its subsidiaries to practice same, notwithstanding their separate mandates, then the UN’s role in the international community is predestined to come to its natural end imminently, to be replaced with the new world order advocated by BRIC which will lead to the entire UN superstructure becoming irrelevant.
I for one support BRIC on this, because the UN has tried to reinvent itself so many times but has failed miserably in many other parts of the third world and it has failed the people of Fiji with the consistency of its inconsistency. The proposition of “cross-conditionality” previously mentioned must be taken on board and program policies must be aligned to compel compliance by rouge states.
A simple example of this inconsistency is the continued retainment of Fiji soldiers in UN peacekeeping missions, despite the fact that it is these very same soldiers who have supported a Tyrant and usurped lawful power from a democratically elected government. It is these same soldiers that terrorize and oppress the people who speak out against unlawfulness and the list is endless.
The Department of Peacekeeping Operations must send our Fiji soldiers back home, so that they can wake up and advise their buffoon boss to respect our 1997 Constitution, the human rights of the people and comply with the Court of Appeal decision.
Is it so hard to say sorry but no can’t do to Jioji K. Konrote?
Or are you relying on the FACT that there is still a lack of a comprehensive staffing strategy for peace operations that needs further ‘structural adjustments’ to align with the UN’s second main purpose, Human Rights?
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