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Bruno Donat, head of UN Mine Action Service Office in Geneva is fasting over child victims of war. He claims assault by UN Guards at NYHQ when he refused to leave the grounds.
"Bruno Donat, head of the UN Mine Action Service in Geneva, alleged the guards pushed him back on to the pavement outside the headquarters on Monday so forcibly that he fell, striking the back of his head."
"The UN denied Donat was assaulted and claims he fell when he was prevented from forcibly trying to enter the building, during which the UN said he assaulted two security officers. Donat insists he did not use any force but was simply arguing his case with the guards."
Click here for the article in The Guardian
While I sympathize with him, methinks, he did not review the rules around UN staff taking political positions, it holds for all, and it is there for a reason. So already a public hunger strike is, shall we say, sailing very close to the wind...the more public stuff is, If I read the circumstances right, out of bounds. Of course, UN security in NY is going to be muscular, after all, it is where the police function was militarized after Afghanistan and Iraq. The latest outbreak in the M.E shows the weakness of the UN because we cannot even ensure that our agencies, or some of them, are not penetrated by those who do not share our universal values. However, warts and all, we need a UN as we stumble into a world of accelerating climate change, geo political cracks, growing intra country and inter-country disparity of wealth and well being...
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