Ban
Smiles with
PRs of
Rohingya-Less
Myanmar,
Wau-ed S
Sudan, SABC's
S Africa
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
5 -- UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
accepted
credentials
from and met
with five
nations' new
Permanent
Representatives
on July 5,
including
Myanmar just
after two more
violent
attacks on
Rohingya
Muslims (the
new PR said
don't use that
word), South
Sudan while
the UN covers
up the dead in
Wau, and South
Africa while
Ban's
spokesman
leaves Press
questions
about
censorship at
state owned
SABC
unanswered.
First up was
Hau Do Suan of
the Republic
of the Union
of Myanmar,
who as Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric on
July 1 said
not to even
use the term
Rohingya. Ban
Ki-moon has a
Partners'
Group on
Myanmar which
may itself be
going out of
business
despite
continued
attacks. Tweeted
photo here;
Periscope
video here.
Next
was Jerry
Matthews
Matjila of the
Republic of
South Africa.
Inner City
Press asked
Dujarric about
reported
censorship at
state media
SABC; Dujarric
gave only a
perfunctory
and generic
response,
while cutting
oral deals
with the UN
Correspondents
Association
resulting in
Press ouster
and eviction.
Tweeted
photo here;
Periscope
video here.
Then came
Amatlain
Elizabeth
Kabua of
Republic of
the Marshall
Islands, who
before
repairing to
Ban's office
with Ban's
deputy chef de
cabinet
Patrick Carey,
who was told
of Under
Secretary
General
Cristina
Gallach's
eviction order
before it was
carried out,
but did
nothing, said
she wants to
work with Ban
on “our
issues.” Tweeted
photo here;
Periscope
video here.
Fourth or
batting
clean-up (or
cover up) was
Akuei Bona
Malwal of the
Republic of
South Sudan,
at a time when
it is reported
that UN
peacekeepers
stood down
while mass
graves were
filled in Wau.
At the end of
the short
closed door
session, Ban
appeared to
inquire into
previous PR
Francis Deng
and was told,
I'll see him
in two days. Tweeted
photo here;
Periscope
video here.
Finally came
Carmelo
Inguanez of
the Republic
of Malta,
talking about
the UN's vital
organs. Periscope
video here.
It was over;
Ban is set to
hit the road
again while
his spokesman
Dujarric, in
the office on
July 5 but
declining to
hold any
Q&A noon
briefing, sit
on most
recently four
question
submitted
before noon by
Inner City
Press. Watch
this site.
For
ten years as
Inner City
Press covered
the UN in ever
greater
detail,
showing
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
Herve Ladsous'
inept
overseeing and
cover up of sexual abuse and
exploitation
by peacekeepers,
dalliance
with genocide
in Sri Lanka
and
prospectively
Burundi, impunity
for cholera
deaths in
Haiti
and
until now for UN
lead poisoning
in Kosovo
and
cravenly
pro-Saudi position
on Yemen amid
the
airstrikes,
it was never
thrown out of
the UN.
Now it
has been, by
Ban's Under
Secretary
GEneral
Cristina
Gallach with
Ban's
knowledge, and
even as groups
like the
Government
Accountability
Project tell
Ban to reverse
the eviction
and give Inner
City Press
back its long
time office
and Resident
Correspondent
pass, Ban's UN
tellingly move
to award Inner
City Press'
office to
Egypt state
media
Al-Akhbar /
Akhbar Elyoum
and its rarely
present
correspondent
Sanaa Youssef,
who never asks
questions, a
former UN
Correspondents
Association
president.
This is Ban's
UN.
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