| UN Bachelet
Quits After Whitewashes Uighurs As
Guterres Ignores US Senate Letter, Jets
Off
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 7 – The United Nations
has hit a new low, with its
supposed human rights
commissioner Michelle Bachelet
whitewashing China's genocide
against the Uighurs during a
stage-managed trip to the
country.
At the end, in a
press conference dominated by
scripted questions from
Chinese state media in
response to which she read
from prepared notes, she said
she was unable to access what
is happening in Xinjiang.
On June 13,
Bachelet having served China
said she was now leaving. And
Guterres praised her: "She has
moved the needle in an
extremely challenging
political context." Yes - she
moved his UN's needle even
more pro-China. And did
nothing about Guterres' ban on
Press.
On August 5, with
Guterres jetting off after
pontificating about "fossil
fools" while they are all over
his US Global Compact, from
the US Senate, this:
"In 2018, the United Nations’
(UN) Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights
promised to release a report
on the Chinese Communist
Party’s (CCP) human rights
abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region (XUAR). Four
years later, the report has
yet to be published, despite
High Commissioner Michelle
Bachelet’s trip to the XUAR
this past May... bipartisan
colleagues in a letter to UN
Secretary-General António
Guterres urging him to work
with Bachelet to secure the
report’s release. Guterres has
yet to respond to the
senators’ letter." Just as
Guterres' Melissa Fleming has
yet to answer this.
Defund the UN.
Some say
they are surprised by this
outcome. But a fish rots from
the head. The head of the UN
system is Antonio Guterres,
and the reasons for his
silence on China's abuses is
more
sinister.
Before being
selected - by China, which
like Russia could have vetoed
him - Guterres took money from
the Gulbenkian Foundation in
Lisbon. The China Energy Fund
Committee, whose Patrick Ho
was convicted of UN bribery
involving UN President of the
General Assembly, offered top
dollar for Gulbenkian's oil
company.
Guterres omitted the money he
took from Gulbenkian from his
financial disclosure form.
And after Inner
City Press, which had
aggressively reported on
Guterres' predecessor Ban
Ki-moon from inside the UN,
asked about it, Guterres had
Inner City Press roughed up
and banned from the UN ever
since. Very Xi.
In
the run up to Bachelet's trip,
Inner City Press put written
questions repeatedly to
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, who daily takes
three of more questions in his
noon briefing from Chinese
state media. But to Inner City
Press, no answer.
Likewise, when
pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel wrote to Guterres'
head of media accreditation
Melissa Fleming asking for
Inner City Press to be allowed
to re-enter the UN and ask its
questions, she refused to
response, as did the supposed
UN Correspondents Association,
on whose Executive Committee
China has a permanent seat.
So how is
it surprising the the UN
covers up for China?
But where
if the US Administration and
US Mission to the UN under
Linda Thomas-Greenfield on
this? They praise the UN and
their work there, amid all the
failures and censorship.
There is no
accountability mechanism for
today's UN. Defund and decamp.
Watch this site - and this
book by Inner City
Press, "Belt
and Roadkill." (Also, Genocide Games of Guterres)
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