Importance of selection of new UN High Commissioner for HUMAN RIGHTS

After the departure of the disgraceful and disgraced former HIGH COMMISSIONER for HUMAN RIGHTS, Louise Arbour, How will the UNITED NATIONS restore the faith in the body that was set up to prevent atrocities that occurred during WWII ?

This is quick diary to get the debate going on how to make the UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL and the OHCHR, CERD and other relevant bodies to uphold their mandates on HUMAN RIGHTS and Racial Discrimination

After the farce of the Milosovec and Saddam trials, to see Arbour not get her own trial is quite disturbing

According to the Canadian Barrister, Ms. Arbour, 61, is a "criminal, corrupt, (and) a shame to all Canadians". The sooner she is indicted and thrown in prison the better, says Mr. Black - who was reacting to an interview of the former senior UN officer on CBC. Ms. Arbour announced Sunday that she was retiring after years of international service.

In 1997, Ms. Arbour is said to have been informed by her chief of investigations, Australian Michael Hourigan and his team, including FBI agent Jim Lyons and Canadian police officers assigned to their unit that it was the RPF who had shot down the plane and massacred all those people.

"But instead of indicting Paul Kagame and the RPF men who had murdered all those people she ordered Hourigan to come to The Hague where she told him to kill the investigation and to burn his notes", says Mr. Black.

"This makes her an accessory to mass murder and a war criminal."

But this is not the first time that crimes of Kagame have been "covered-up" at the ICTR. According to sworn affidavits, placed in the ICTR record in early 2006, well respected ICTR Lead Investigative Prosecutor Michael Hourigan, an Australian QC, recommended that Kagame himself, be prosecuted for the assassination of Habyarimana in 1997! But then-Chief UN Prosecutor, Louise Arbour of Canada, ordered him to drop the Kagame investigation; to forget it ever happened; and, to burn his notes! Hourigan resigned rather than comply and copies of his original notes are now part of the ICTR public record for all to see. (3)

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