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In
Burundi,
French
Ambassador
With CNDD-FDD,
In Geneva,
Torture
Stonewalling
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow Up On
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, July
30 -- The UN
Security
Council
adopted a
resolution to
send up to 228
UN Police to
Burundi on
July 29, with
four
abstentions:
China, Egypt,
Venezuela and
Egypt.
Surprisingly,
Russia voted
yes. Here
is the French
text; English
is
below.
Minute before
the UN
Security
Council was to
vote on the
draft
resolution to
send up to 228
police to
Burundi,
French
ambassador
Francois
Delattre spoke
with his
Chinese
counterpart, tweeted
photo here, while
Angola's
ambassador
spoke with US
Ambassador
Samantha Power
and her
deputy, David
Pressman.
(Blurrier
photo tweeted
here.)
On July 30 in
Bujumbura, the
CNDD-FDD rally
at the French
embassy which
Inner City
Press had reported
in advance on
July 29
featured
French
Ambassador
Gerrit Van
Rossum
fraternizing
with the
CNDD-FDD crowd
and their
signs about
Rwanda. Inner
City Press tweeted
photo here.
Fraternite.
The UN of Ban
Ki-moon and
Herve Ladsous
plans to
accept 800
more soldiers
from Burundi
for "service"
in the Central
African
Republic,
Inner City
Press was
exclusively
informed and
got the UN to
confirm on
June 23. But
why?
Especially now
that the UN
has belatedly
acknowledged
that the new
rape charges
in CAR are
against
Burundi? And
now that
Burundi has
“discontinued
its
interactive
dialogue” with
the UN
Committee
Against
Torture? On
July 29 Inner
City Press
asked Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq
about this;
the generic
response
indicated to
some that
Ban's office
is not even
aware of it.
After
breaking off
interactive
dialogue with
the UN
Committee on
Torture,
Burundi and
its “keeper of
the seals”
turned in a
written
response that
many find less
than credible.
Inner City
Press is
putting it
online here on
Scribd. Watch
this site.
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