UNITED
NATIONS, April
17 -- When
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon held a
half
hour press
conference on
Wednesday, his
first at the
UN since
January
22, his
answers said
little but
were also
misleading.
Only
one of the
eight selected
questions even
mentioned
Africa, 70% of
the
Security
Council's
workload. Ban
was asked
about the
Eastern Congo,
but not a word
about the 126
rapes in
Minova by the
Congolese
Army,
his partners,
covered up for
four months by
his head of
Peacekeeping,
Herve Ladsous.
Nov
27, Dec
7, Dec
18
In
South Sudan,
four Russian
pilots and now
five Indian
peacekeepers
have been
killed, again
under the
watch of
Ladsous. But
nothing
asked, or
said.
Likewise
nothing
on Ban's
terse and
lawless
dismissal,
since his last
press
conference, of
the legal
claims of 5000
people killed
by cholera the
UN's said to
have brought
into Haiti.
Some rule of
law.
Ban
was asked
repeatedly
about Lakhdar
Brahimi, is he
or isn't he
quitting. As
one Permanent
Representative
in front of
the Security
Council asked
Inner City
Press, what
does it
matter? Ban is
irrelevant.
Recently
in
connection
with the
complaints of
retaliated-against
UN
whistleblower
James
Wasserstrom,
it emerged
that Ban had
not even
responded to
correspondence
from the Government
Accountability
Program, an
expert in the
field. But
Wednesday Ban
said he has
commissioned a
report from an
outside
consultant.
This is a
time-worn
way to avoid
reform. And so
it goes in
Ban's UN.
The
first question
was given to
Pamela Falk of
CBS for UNCA,
now known as
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance. Also
since Ban's
last press
conference,
his Department
of Public
Information
conducted a
non-consensual
raid
on Inner City
Press' office,
rifled through
papers and
took photos.
The
photos were leaked
to BuzzFeed
through an
anonymous
“Concerned UN
Reporter”
e-mail address
right after
BuzzFeed asked
Ban's
spokesman
about the raid.
During
the raid,
UNCA's Falk
took pictures
-- then
issued a legal
threat to
Inner City
Press not to
ask about it,
using
her
CBSNews.com
e-mail. Like
we said, UN's
Censorship
Alliance.
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