Editor,

RE: The UN theatrics shouldn’t surprise anyone (The New Times, February 18).

I fully agree with the writer’s conclusion.

Why would anyone expect justice for our loved ones from an organisation that keeps on appointing to key positions within that same organisation (almost as if deliberately intended for maximum provocation) those who were closely involved, within the French Government, in enabling the Genocide, such as Herve Ladsous?

Ladsous, as France’s deputy permanent representative to the UN in New York in 1994, was the point-man for getting UN Security Council approval for Operation Turquoise to try and save the genocidal government of Bagosora-Kambanda-Sindikubwawo put in place at the French ambassador’s residence in Kigali.

These continuous appointments to the organisation’s key peacekeeping role, exclusively from the country that, beyond the direct Rwandan genocidaires, was most responsible for the Genocide should be enough to make the most naive and trusting understand: There can really be no justice from such an organisation.

Mwene Kalinda