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Expert: UN Failed Before Rohingya Crackdown in Myanmar

Associated Press

   UNITED NATIONS - An independent review of United Nations operations in
   the years before hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a
   violent crackdown by Myanmar's military concluded that the
   organization's many bodies failed to act together, resulting in
   "systemic and structural failures."

   The 36-page review by Gert Rosenthal, Guatemala's former foreign
   minister, released Monday said the U.N. could conceivably have
   reconciled competing views on whether quiet diplomacy or outspoken
   advocacy against human rights abuses in Myanmar should have been used
   -- but it didn't.

   The result -- as in Sri Lanka at the end of the civil war against Tamil
   separatists in 2009 -- was a "dysfunctional performance of the U.N.
   system," Rosenthal said.

   "Without question serious errors were committed and opportunities were
   lost in the U.N. system following a fragmented strategy rather than a
   common plan of action," he said, adding that the "systemic failure was
   further magnified by some bureaucratic and unseemly infighting."
   

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