UN
Deletes
Corruption
& Kagame
Qs from Congo
Summary,
Ntaganda
Propaganda
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 22 -- Not
only does the
UN under Ban
Ki-moon and
his
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
cut off follow
up questions
about
corruption, as
happened to
Inner City
Press Tuesday
while
questioning
Congo envoy
Roger Meece
about a delayed
and
ill-conceived
"Quick"
Impact Project
in Walikale
-- now, Ban's
UN has erased
any trace of
the corruption
question from
its summary of
Meece's press
conference.
Compare
video
here, from
Minute 14,
with this
UN "press
release"
which also
omits Inner
City Press'
question about
historic links
between Bosco
Ntanganda,
indicted by
the
International
Criminal
Court, and
Rwanda.
Less
than a week
ago, Ban's
Secretariat
sought to
censor an
already
published
Inner City
Press story
about its
failing
observer
mission
in Syria.
On
Tuesday after
the now-erased
questions to
Meece, Nesirky
allowed
Inner City
Press only one
question -- on
its March 28
scoop of US
Middle East
official
Jeffrey
Feltman coming
to as Ban's
main
political
adviser --
then refused a
question on
another Ban
adviser,
on
peacekeeping,
alleged Sri
Lankan war
criminal
Shavendra
Silva.
It's
one thing for
Nesirky to
on-camera cut
off question:
at least that
can be seem.
But for the
UN's "public
information"
machinery to
produce
purported
summaries that
leave out not
only
major
questions, but
also a long
answer from
Ban's own
envoy Meece?
This has
descended into
propaganda. If
you can't
trust Ban's UN
on
simply things
like
summaries,
what can
you trust it
on?
Footnote:
while
ultimately
this is on the
watch of Ban
Ki-moon and,
it is noted, a
fish rots from
the head, it
will be
interesting to
follow the
chain that
leads to this
type of absurd
censorship and
erasure, as a
new head of
DPI -- Inner
City Press has
named
the Greek
former
minister
Lambrinidis --
comes in.
Watch this
site.
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