Editor,This is in response to Arthur Asiimwe’s opinion piece, ‘‘ICTR and Monusco: Two bedfellows”, (The New Times, February 7, 2013).  As currently constituted, as a tool to serve the interests of a few powerful members and in more thrall to well-financed, unaccountable non-state actors with their own agendas under the guise of human rights defenders, the UN is incapable of reform from within. It will take the majority of its less powerful member states working in close concert to prise control of the organisation from that very small clique of Western states and their privately funded wannabe global power brokers such as Human Rights Watch and some of their principal financiers like George Soros. Unless that is done, and soon, the UN’s incoherence between its declared mission and its actual practices will eventually push it into irrelevance and ultimately, just as its predecessor, the League of Nations.Mwene Kalinda