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SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 27 – The crisis of Coronavirus COVID-19 in prisons is, of course, not limited to the United States, China, Turkey and Iran. Consider Cameroon, which Inner City Press covers and the UN of Antonio Guterres tries to cover up: Unconfirmed reports have it that a patient has tested positive for the coronavirus at the Kondengui central prison in Yaounde.  A source at the detention facility says, “instead of taking him somewhere else, he was instead brought inside the prison for quarantine.”     The inmate said to be from quarter one in Kondengui prison, went out to the hospital yesterday for a medical check-up.  Built in 1967 for 1,500 inmates, the detention facility currently holds an estimated 5000.

“On coming back, the medical personnel confirmed that he is suspected to be positive. He has been Quarantine in a particular room alone since yesterday” says an inmate who adds that the report has sparked panic throughout the detention facility.  “This morning detainees have gathered around the area where he has been Quarantine in a panic that it might be spread to the entire prison,” he says.     “Other newly brought in inmates are being quarantined in a particular quarter of the prison for 14 days before they are sent to the various prison quarters if tested negative” he adds.  Amid complains of overcrowding, Amnesty International in 2011 described conditions as “harsh, with inmates suffering overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food.  Government is yet to make any official remark about the allegation.

   As more and more civilians have been killed by the Cameroon government of Paul Biya, absentee president for 37 years, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has been silent.

Inner City Press was informed by sources in Guterres' own 38th floor office that Guterres had made a deal with Biya's UN Ambassador Tommo Monthe as chair of the UN Budget Committee for administrative favors in exchange for silence on the slaughter or "subduing" of the Anglophone minority.

When Inner City Press asked about it, Guterres used UN Security to rough up Inner City Press right after it interviewed Monthe, and to ban it from entering the UN, 627 days now.

  On March 19 when Guterres held a propaganda virtual briefing with only his supporters, Biya like, and again on March 20 when his spokesman Stephane Dujarric phoned it in from his apartment on Manhattan Upper East Side while blocking Inner City Press on WhatsApp on which he said he would take questions, Inner City Press asked about Cameroon. No answers.

[Since Dujarric said he would take questions, but blocks Inner City Press, we publish this, with more to follow: "Dear colleagues,  The spokesperson's office has provided us with both Stephane and Farhan's cell number so that correspondents can send a question via WhatsApp or text before noon.  Stephane Dujarric +1 917 622 7652" Ask away.]

  This as Biya tried to jam through a vote even amid the Coronavirus crisis. Inner City Press also asked about Guinea and while no answer, Guterres in a canned statement "took note" of Sunday's election. But on Cameroon, once again, complicit silence. Cameroon is the genocide of Guterres. We'll have more on this.

  With Inner City Press, Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric on March 9 said "in response to questions" he was denouncing one of the few attacks in Cameroon NOT by Paul Biya's forces, in Bamenda on Women's Day. Inner City Press has asked him and Melissa Fleming, whose question was that in response to? No answer. Guterres?

  Meanwhile Guterres and Dujarric have had no comment on, and have refused to answer on, Cameroon's expulsion and now public trashing of their own UN OCHA officials in Bamenda, Andrew Jack Pendleton. Biya's minister Atanga Nji has publicly denounced this UN official for his mild comments on the government's slaughter of civilians at Ngarbuh. But Guterres has said nothing. The most basic thing a UN Secretary General is expected to do is speak for UN officials being chased out. But no - Guterres is too corrupt.

On February 16 Inner City Press from its sources in Cameroon reported on the killing of more than two dozen civilians including children in Ngar in NW Cameroon.

Before 10 am on February 17 Inner City Press in writing asked Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Eri Kaneko about the killings.  

There was no answer, and with Dujarric on vacation in Orlando, Florida, Eri Kaneko fielded only two questions at a ten minute long noon briefing on February 17 that Inner City Press was banned from entering and asking at.   Since then Guterres, Dujarric and Melissa Fleming have refused to answer daily questions from Inner City Press on what has become their genocide in Cameroon.

 Now there's widely circulated video  a toddler whose mother was killed in Babanki (Kedjom Ketinguh) in Mezam, in the North West region of Cameroon. Soldiers are responsible, and 10 other civilians have been killed. Meanwhile corrupt Guterres and Catarina Vaz Pinto, the First Lady of Faux Socialism, ran right by Inner City Press loud questions about Cameroon on February 29, into the publicly funded mansion Guterres lives in some of the time. Story here with video. He, and it seems they, are corrupt and complicit.

 Also: one of the witnesses who exposed the Biya government's mass killing at Ngarbuh, Mallam Danjuma has been killed and dumped in Bui by government forces in Kikaikelaki. And from the UN of Guterres? Nothing. This is Guterres' genocide. He has the only press that ask him about it, even from his propaganda speech at NYC's The New School.

This is Guterres' genocide. Watch this site.

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