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As
Myanmar Burns
Rohingya
Villages, Ban
Ki-moon's
Editor Nambiar
Silent
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow Up on
Exclusives
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 18--
Amid UN
scandals,
corruption and
nepotism by UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, Inner
City Press on
October 18
asked his
outgoing
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
the slaughter
in Myanmar's
Rakhine State.
Beyond
the Vine
video;
UN
transcript:
Inner City
Press: I
wanted to ask
you about
Myanmar.
I saw…
whatever.
It seems like,
in Rakhine
State, there
continue to be
burning of
villages.
There's an
open letter by
16 Rohingya
civil society
groups naming
the villages,
naming
Battalion 551,
and all of
this has
happened since
the last
statement by
Vijay Nambiar
on 11
October.
So, I wanted
to know, what
exactly is the
UN
doing?
In what seems
to be a
planned,
comprehensive
military
crackdown on
the region and
the burning
and… and
destruction of
whole
villages, what
has been the
actions of Mr.
Nambiar since
11 October
until today's
date?
Spokesman:
Obviously,
it's something
we continue to
follow.
I don't have
any other…
anything else
to add than
what we said
in Mr.
Nambiar's
statement,
which is his
concern at the
ongoing
military
operation, and
I think that
stands.
Nambiar
has been
editing a
vanity press
book for Ban,
here.
In
August, Ban's
Myanmar
sojourn was
ironic, given
that Ban
assigned to
the country
Vijay Nambiar,
who in Sri
Lanka in 2009
lured Tamils
to their
execution,
then
downplayed the
plight of the
Rohingya.
There was also
Ban's role in
the misdeeds
of his
Resident
Coordinator in
Myanmar,
Renata
Lok-Dessalien,
click here for
that.
From the UN's
May 23, 2016
transcript:
Inner
City Press:
the
proceedings of
this senior
action group
of the Rights
Up Front,
including Mr.
[Jan]
Eliasson, and
basically they
conclude that
the UN has
learned and
improved
little since
the Sri Lanka
incidents that
gave rise to
that.
They're taking
about the SRSG
[Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General]
Renata
Lok-Dessallien
basically
having
meetings when
the human
rights staff
couldn't
attend so she
wouldn't have
to hear their
views. Have
you seen all
this?
And what's
your response
to
basically...
Spokesman
Dujarric:
I think... as
you know we
don't...
Inner City
Press:
...what's gone
wrong?
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