Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by on Wednesday December 21 2016, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the gun-control dept.

The day after Inner City Press asked both US Ambassador Samantha Power and UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the UN Mission in South Sudan giving automatic weapons to warlord James Koang, who killed civilians, a new UN outrage was brought to the attention of Inner City Press and after its publishing and asking about it (video here), was confirmed by the UN.

Since the UN covered up its arming of South Sudan warlord Koang, and refuses to answer written questions including about its use of public funds, we published this report on this we'll follow up:

The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, UNAMI, under the authority of the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS), have "lost" 25 weapons from their armory in their base in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

The loss includes 18 Glock 9mm pistols, 5 G36 assault rifles, and 2 G36 sniper rifles. Sources say that 10,000s of thousands of rounds of ammunition are also missing.

DSS only discovered or internally acknowledged this months after the fact and cannot account for their loss. The UN's Fijian Guard Unit have had to start patrolling inside the base.

Source: Inner City Press
Related: Small Arms Survey Sudan [PDF]

Washington Post: Report: U.N. gave arms to South Sudan rebels later implicated in massacre


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:23AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday December 22 2016, @03:23AM (#444604) Homepage

    Ooga-boogas aren't exactly accurate or precise warriors. They spend ammo like they spend their EBT and welfare -- all up-front and as fast as they can. If they get their ashy hands on a full-auto capable rifle and ten goat-horns* full of ammo, they're gonna use full-auto and run through all ten goat-horns just to take down one or two dudes at close range, and just waste all their ammo without any kills at medium range.

    * "Cuernos de chivo" in Mexican