UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May
17 –
As
things further
deteriorated in Burkina
Faso
on March
22
Inner City Press
asked UN Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
it in
writing: "March
22-1: On
Burkina Faso,
what is the
SG's comment
and action on
the execution
by Burkinabe
security
forces of over
115 men
accused of
supporting or
harbouring the
armed
Islamists?"
There has been
no answer,
despite Dujarric
and outgoing
censor Alison
Smale's promises
that questions
would
be
answered.
Guterres
is corrupt,
and he is
corrupting each
and every UN
body. On May
17 the UN
Peacebuilding
Commssion
issued this,
which still banned
Inner
City Press publishes in
full: "The
Peacebuilding
Commission met
on 16 May 2016
in New York to
discuss the
situation in
Burkina Faso.
The PBC
members were
briefed by the
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs,
Cooperation
and Diaspora
of Burkina
Faso, H.E. Mr.
Alpha Barry,
the Director
General and
National
Coordinator of
the Program
d’Urgence pour
le Sahel of
Burkina Faso,
Mr. Martial
Wilfried
Bassolé, the
Deputy Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
for West
Africa and the
Sahel, Ms.
Ruby
Sandhu-Rojon,
the Assistant
Secretary-General
for
Peacebuilding
Support, Mr.
Oscar
Fernandez-Taranco,
and the United
Nations
Resident
Coordinator in
Burkina Faso,
Ms. Metsi
Makhetha.
The members of
the Commission
condemned the
recent
terrorist
attacks in
Burkina Faso,
and expressed
their deepest
sympathy and
condolences to
the families
of the
victims. They
reiterated the
solidarity of
the United
Nations to the
people and the
Government of
Burkina
Faso.
The Members of
the Commission
expressed
their grave
concern over
the recent
deterioration
of the
security
situation in
Burkina Faso,
with repeated
and increased
number of
violent
attacks
against
civilians and
security and
defense
forces.
Despite
government and
community
efforts, the
security
situation has
become more
volatile since
January 2019
with increased
inter-communal
violence,
fueled by the
activities
of
terrorist
groups.
They welcomed
the on-going
efforts by the
Government to
respond to the
security
situation and
to the
humanitarian
and
socio-economic
consequences,
including
through its
National
Development
Plan and the
Emergency
Program for
the Sahel,
Programme
d’Urgence pour
le
Sahel.
The members of
the Commission
welcomed
on-going
initiatives by
the United
Nations and
international
partners to
strengthen and
accelerate
their support
to the people
and Government
of Burkina
Faso,
including the
Peacebuilding
Fund. They
reiterated the
need to
enhance
coherence,
coordination,
synergies and
complementarities
across
international
efforts to
support
national
peacebuilding
priorities.
They
encouraged the
Secretary
General to
swiftly pursue
the current
assessment
process aimed
at adapting
United Nations
support on the
ground to the
evolving needs
of the
population, in
line with the
priorities of
the Government
of Burkina
Faso.
In this
regard, they
called the
international
community to
fully support
the Emergency
Program for
the Sahel and
the
Humanitarian
Response
Plan.
The Commission
stands ready
to pursue
their
engagement
with Burkina
Faso in these
critical
moments,
including
reconvening
when there is
an opportunity
to review
current
efforts to
improve
coherence
among actors
and advocate
for additional
support to the
Government’s
programmes.
They
reiterated
support for
the on-going
strategy to
intensify
regional and
international
efforts to
prevent and
combat
terrorism and
rebuild the
conditions for
social
cohesion and
stability in
Burkina Faso
and in the
Sahel "
On
May 12,
"Gunmen killed
six people
attending mass
at the
Catholic
Church of
Dablo in
northern
Burkina Faso
Sunday
morning,
officials and
witnesses
said.
The priest and
five
churchgoers
were among the
victims, a
witness said.
"They were
about forty on
motorcycles,"
the witness
said of the
attackers.
"They made
everyone lie
down, executed
5 before
torching the
church."
The attackers
set parts of
the church and
nearby shops
on fire before
fleeing the
scene roughly
an hour and a
half after
they arrived.
Multiple
injuries have
been
reported.
Last week,
gunman killed
five people in
a Protestant
church in the
small northern
town of
Silgadji."
Many hours
later, this,
which we
publish in
full: "The
Secretary-General
strongly
condemns this
morning’s
attack on a
Catholic
Church during
mass, in the
village of
Dablo, in the
Center-North
Region of
Burkina
Faso.
He expresses
his deepest
condolences to
the families
of the victims
and wishes a
speedy
recovery to
the
injured.
He recalls the
sanctity of
all places of
worship and
hopes the
perpetrators
can be swiftly
brought to
justice.
The
Secretary-General
conveys the
solidarity of
the United
Nations to the
Government and
people of
Burkina Faso
in this
difficult
moment for the
nation. He
urges all
citizens of
Burkina Faso
to stand
firmly with
one another
across
communities
and not to
succumb to
efforts to sow
discord and
breed further
violence.
The UN stands
ready to
assist in any
way it
can.
Farhan Haq,
Deputy
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 12
May 2019."
Guterres is
headed to
Fiji,
Tuvalu and
Vanuatu...
Inner
City Press
also asked, "May
1-6: On
Burkina Faso
and the rule
of law, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that a
hundred
Burkinabe
lawyers took
to the streets
of Ouagadougou
on Monday to
condemn the
shutdown of
the judiciary,
which they vex
has paralysed
judicial
activities in
the country
since October
2018.
“The Burkina
Faso Bar
Association
denounces and
condemns the
blocking of
the judicial
system, the
massive and
indiscriminate
violation of
the rights of
users of
justice,” said
Paulin
Salambéré, Bar
President,
after a march
in front of
the Ministry
of
Justice.
He noted that
there are
currently 808
remand
prisoners
awaiting
trial, 1,640
accused
prisoners
whose cases
are under
investigation
and 3,641
convicted
prisoners in
prison whose
sentences are
hampered by
dysfunctions?"
Dujarric,
who for
Guterres and
others got
Inner City
Press roughed
up and banned
refused to
answer,
despite his on
camera promiseto do so.
Gunmen
killed six
people
attending mass
at the
Catholic
Church of
Dablo in
northern
Burkina Faso
Sunday
morning,
officials and
witnesses
said.
The priest and
five
churchgoers
were among the
victims, a
witness told
VOA
Africa.
"They were
about forty on
motorcycles,"
the witness
said of the
attackers.
"They made
everyone lie
down, executed
5 before
torching the
church."
The attackers
set parts of
the church and
nearby shops
on fire before
fleeing the
scene roughly
an hour and a
half after
they arrived.
Multiple
injuries have
been
reported.
Last week,
gunman killed
five people in
a Protestant
church in the
small northern
town of
Silgadji. Then
a full
three days late
with things
further
deteriorated in
Benin,
Dujarric is
said to have
answered some
undefined
other's
request for
comment by
e-mail.
Since as usual
what Guterres
said had no
impact, on May
3 Dujarric
issued this,
citing Ibn
Chambas who
has sold out
Anglophones in
Cameroon and
ingratiated
himself to Buhari
in Nigeria:
"The
Secretary-General
has been
following
closely
developments
in the
Republic of
Benin in the
run-up to and
aftermath of
the 28 April
legislative
elections. He
deplores the
violence
witnessed in
the
post-electoral
period. He
calls on all
Beninese
stakeholders
to exercise
maximum
restraint and
seek to
resolve their
differences
through
dialogue in
line with the
democratic
tradition of
the
country.
The United
Nations,
through the
Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
for West
Africa and the
Sahel, Mohamed
Ibn Chambas,
will work with
all concerned
parties, in
coordination
with the
Economic
Community of
West African
States and
other
partners, to
support the
Beninese
stakeholders
in their
efforts to
find a
consensual and
peaceful
solution to
their
differences.
Stéphane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General."Too
late, too corrupt.
Dujarric
should be fired,
and Guterres
should be
impeached.
Inner
City Press on July 5 was
banned from entering the
UN, the day after it
filed a criminal
complaint against UN
Security for physically
removing it from
covering the meeting
about the UN Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres' $6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget, as
witnessed and
essentially cheered on
by senior UN official
Christian Saunders,
tearing its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally twisting
his arm and slamming
shut and damaging his
laptop. On August 17,
Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison
Smale issued a letter
banning Inner City Press
from the UN - for life.
With no due process. She
and Guterres have put
the UN in the US Press
Freedom Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN would
answer Press questions
to the Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric and
his Office; Dujarric said the
same on
camera.
On April
29 three
hours
before Dujarric
held a UN
noon briefing where
he joked with
his insiders
and said there
should be a
reality show
about them at
UNCA, Inner
City Press submitted
765 questions, including why
it continues to be
lawlessly banned
from entering to ask
questions in person:
"There are more
than 500+
questions UNanswered.
And Monday Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept 18, Wed
Sept 19 and Thurs
and Fri Sept 21, that
whole week, no questions
answered. Nor Sept 25,
nor 28th - nor October 2
nor 3. While
appreciating and using
what was sent on March
28 in partial request to
Inner City Press'
questions about the UN
bribery sentence of
Patrick Ho of CEFC and
CEFC's 2018 attempt to
buy the oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid the SG, no
answers on Dec 17 or 18
or 19 or 20 or 21 -
another FIVE days in a
row, even as SG's direct
conflicts of interest
and failure to disclose
emerge, and a newest
low. No answers on
January 30 nor 31 nor
February 1 nor 4 nor 5
nor 6 nor 7 nor 11 nor
12 nor 13 nor 14 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19 nor 20 nor
21 nor 22 nor 25 nor 26
nor 27 nor March 1 - 27
(!) And
now April
1, 3-26.
No answers at all during
those four days of the
US v Ho trial showing
corruption in the UN
says it all. This ban is
just censorship - and
Inner City Press must be
allowed back into the
noon briefing to ask its
questions in person and
follow up on them.
April
29-1: On Cameroon, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on the
killing of civilians
including children by
Paul Biya's arm in the
SW village of Ikata on
April 26?
April
29-2: On the
just-published Public
Financial Disclosures
for 2017, as a first
question, please state
why Nicholas Haysum is
not even on the list.
Did he decline to make
any public disclosure?
Why has Guterres changed
the previous system in a
which a "choosing not to
disclose" statement was
upload and listed, to
one which helps conceal
who reports and who does
not? Again, state
why considering the UN
bribery conviction of
Patrick Ho of CEFC, and
CEFC's attempt to
purchase the oil company
of Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid Mr. Guterres
in 2016 was omitted from
his online public
financial disclosure
covering 2016, and why
Guterres has not even
started an audit of CEFC
in the UN.
April
29-3: On Benin, scam
elections and Internet
shut downs, what is the
SG's comment and action
if any on the
Internet shutdown in
Benin as the country
holds parliamentary
elections without
opposition
parties?
April
29-4: Given the use of
public money, please
state who while the SG
was in or en route back
from China on Saturday
April 27 was inside the
Sutton Place mansion,
why the limousine with
diplomatic plates
awaiting pulled twice
into the cul de sac on
Sutton Place, and who
has access to this
mansion when Mr.
Guterres is away.
April
29-5: On Myanmar, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on that on
April 22, Yangon’s
Mayangone Township Court
ordered five members of
the Peacock Generation
Thangyat troupe detained
without bail for their
satirical performance,
traditionally performed
during Myanmar’s April
New Year holiday. Kay
Khine Tun, Zayar Lwin,
Paing Ye Thu, Paing Phyo
Min, and Pho Thar were
sent to Insein Prison on
charges under penal code
section 505(a), which
makes it a crime to make
any statement “with
intent to cause, or
which is likely to
cause, any officer,
soldier, sailor or
airman in the Army, Navy
or Air Force to mutiny
or otherwise disregard
or fail in his duty as
such.” They face up to
two years in prison and
a fine. Police had
previously arrested
three of the five
Peacock Generation
members on April 15,
along with another
member Su Yadanar Myint,
and charged them with
violating section 66(d)
of the
Telecommunications Law.
The four, who had posted
a livestream of their
performance on Facebook
that was then shared on
YouTube, had been
released on bail.
Up to 25 more members of
the Peacock Generation
Thangyat troupe have
been reportedly sued
under section 66(d)
since April 23, but
their names have not
been released. The
troupe members are to
appear in court on April
29.
April
29-6: On press freedom
and Uganda, what is the
SG's comment and action
if any on the assault,
by a Kampala court
registrar no less, on
journalists from Salt
Media and Smart
24? What is each
of yours - particularly
the SG's - response to
the letter written and
sent by Burundi activist
Manisha Lievin? To the
April 15 letter to the
SG, DSG and USG Smale
for which receipt has
not even been
acknowledged, other than
a single lawless line
from MALU: "Your media
accreditation request,
with reference no:
M66561081, has been
declined"? This is a
formal request for the
UN's explanation of
grounds for this denied,
and since SGcentral, the
SG's chief of staff and
Deputy SG and USG Smale
haven't even confirmed
receipt of the April 15
letter much less
responded, for
reconsideration. AGAIN,
immediately explain how
it is legitimate to ban
from enter into the UN
the media that has been
asking about these and
other questions, with no
hearing or appeal.
April
26-1: Now that SG
Guterres has lavished
praise on China's "Belt
and Road" please
immediately state how
much Guterres and team's
trip to China is
costing, the size and
composition of the UN
delegation, and who is
paying for it (given
that even the PGA now
discloses this
information).
Again, state whether
after the UN bribery
conviction of Patrick Ho
of CEFC, and CEFC's
attempt to purchase the
oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid Mr. Guterres
in 2016 (omitted from
his online public
financial disclosure
covering 2016), he
intends to raise
corruption and UN
bribery issues with
China.
April
25-5: On Mozambique what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on the
sexual exploitation of
Cyclone Idai victims by
local officials, some
linked to the ruling
Frelimo party, demanding
money from people
affected by the cyclone
in exchange for
including their names on
the aid distribution
list? In some cases,
women without money were
instead coerced into
engaging in sex with
local leaders in
exchange for a bag of
rice. Again, where is
the if-asked information
on all the new UN sexual
exploitation and abuse
cases so far only
partially
disclosed?
April
24-3: In Cameroon, what
is the role of the UN in
propping up ELECAM even
as non violent opponents
of Paul Biya are jailed?
What has the SG done
about that, after he
took the golden statue
in Yaounde and met about
Budget Committee favors
repeatedly with Biya
Ambassador Tommo
Monthe?
April
23-3: On Iran and human
rights, what is SG
Guterres' comment and
action on the
reiteration of the
13-year prison sentence
of human rights attorney
Mohammad Najafi who was
jailed in 2018 after
voicing support for
people detained during
anti-government
protests? Najafi was
sentenced in December to
10 years for “conveying
information to a hostile
country” through
interviews with foreign
media, two years for
insulting the supreme
leader and one year for
publicly supporting
opposition groups.
Mohammad Najafi had been
imprisoned since October
28, 2018, for informing
media outlets about the
suspicious case of Vahid
Heydari, 22, who died in
detention at the 12th
Police Station in Arak.
That on April 16, 2019,
Branch 2 of the
Prosecutor’s Office in
Tehran’s Evin prison
issued an indictment
against Amir Salar
Davoudi on charges of
“cooperating with
hostile
governments"?
April
22-5: What is the status
of OIOS head Heidi
Mendoza? Is she still on
medical leave, despite
having flown to New York
for an event at the
Filipino
consulate?
April
4-2: On UN bribery and
censorship, what now is
the SG's comment and
response to the April
3article in Serbia about
CEFC which Mr Guterres
has refused to audit -
and about his refusal to
answer, and censorship
of Press "Gutereš had
and had his own
financial link with the
CEFC, through the
Gulbenkian Foundation.
On the orders of
Guteres, on June 22 and
July 3, 2018, the
security came to me, and
I was banned from
reporting from the UN.
In fact, Gutereš took
advantage of his
security from the UN to
distance me from his
speech at the Park East
Synagogue, and recently
physically stopped me
while he entered the
mosque in 96th
Street" and now this...
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