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Cameroon Journalist Wazizi Killed By Biya
As UN Guterres Refuses Press Q Empty CPJ
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 6 – 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, 700 days and
counting.
On June 2,
news that Buea-based
journalist Samuel Wazizi a/k/a
Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe was
killed. According to Equinoxe
Television, he died within a
few days in detention from
wounds and injuries sustained
after his arrest - that is, he
was killed by Biya's forces.
And Guterres' UN has refused
each and every question about
Cameroon from the Press -
Guterres is complicit and
corrupt.
On June 3,
4 and 5 Inner City Press asked
Guterres and his spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming in writing about the
killing of Wazizi - no answer
at all. On June 4 Inner City
Press put the question to
Guterres himself as he went
from mansion to Mercedes, here
- nothing. Now CPJ the
Committee to "Protect'
Journalists" issues a
statement - good. But they
partner with Guterres even as
he covers up for Biya and bans
the Press that asks, now 704
days. We'll have more on this.
On
April 30 Inner City Press in
writing asked Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming questions
including about the 14 luxury
cars to Biya's cronies - no
answer.
On April
20, Inner City Press asked
Dujarric, Guterres and others
21 questions including this:
"this morning Inner City Press
asked [an NGO often invited
into Guterres' UN and which
for now gives preference to
his UN Censorship Alliance]
which said it would be 'highly
problematic' if Guterres does
not include Cameroon in his
CAAC report. Why hasn't he to
date? Is he still claiming and
taking credit for a
ceasefire?"
Two days,
no answer at all. Only this
read out by Dujarric from his
penthouse apartment: "we
acknowledge the commitment of
the President of Cameroon to
resolve the conflict in the
North‑West and South‑West
regions through peaceful
means." Video on Facebook;
YouTube.
Guterres is a corrupt censor.
Now this call to
release the political
prisoners Guterres and his
Nigerian Deputy SG Amina J.
Mohammed have ignored or been
complicity in imprisoning:
"Most of the Anglophones who
are currently in
detention were sentenced
on terrorism charges, among
which is Ayuk Tabe Julius, and
Nine others who were sentenced
to life imprisonment. Other
inmates have not been
convicted yet, and about 75
percent are currently held in
pre-trial detention. These
people could not be released
under Article 8 of the
constitution because that
falls under the prerogative of
the judiciary, whereas those
to be freed under the COVID-19
response fall under a
presidential decree. The
Cameroonian judiciary can
release Anglophone prisoners
using 'nolle prosequi' meaning
'will no longer prosecute.'"
Now
after Guterres ghoulishly took
credit for a voluntary
ceasefire declared by one
opposition group in the
Southern Cameroon without
making any comment about Paul
Biya's army ceasing fire, the
absurdity has become clear. A
list of nation states tipping
their hat to a ceasefire does
NOT include the Cameroon of
Paul Biya, photo here.
And from ghoulish Guterres?
Absolute silence and
censorship. Guterres is a war
criminal: ICC or MCC.
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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