On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asks
UN Of Prison Protesters Saying
To Bypass Guterres No Answer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 22 –After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for 37
years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
French spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who put
up then took
down a podcast
in which he
brags about
his "mutually
assured
destruction"
relationship
with
journalists, here.
On July
22 Inner City
Press was provided
from Yaounde
with video a
protest in
prison by
people illegally detained. Inner
City Press
asked Guterres, his
deputy Amina
J. Mohammed,
his
vacationing
(in France)
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric and
his deputy
Farhan Haq:
"July 22-3: On
Cameroon,
after the SG
took Biya's
golden statue
and UN Budget
Committee
favors, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
from him and
separately DSG
Amina J.
Mohammed on
the protests
today by those
Ambazonians
illegally
detained in
Kondengui
Central
Prison?"
While Haq's
dying noon
briefing
lasted only
until 12:14 pm
he did not
answer this or
any other
written
question from
Inner City
Press, which
published the
video here.
Now we publish
this, from the
protesters'
petition: "This
war is
stoppable by
Cameroon
government
without the
need of
foreign
intervention
but its
unlikely to
happen.
Deception is
all they know,
sooner or
later they
will release
100 people
while
simultaneously
arresting
additional 500
and would
expect a
positive
reaction from
families back
home while
keeping
thousand
others in
jail. We call
on the
international
community
especially the
USA, to listen
to the voice
of conscience
for the sake
of humanity
and intervene
immediately.
We call on
members of
parliaments,
senators,
congressmen
and women of
various
countries of
the world
especially
USA, UK, and
Canada. To
stand up with
one voice,
listen to
their
conscience and
save us. We
write from the
dungeon of
kondengui
central
prison, where
we’ve been
dumped by the
government to
die, without
any feeding
from the
government
since our
arrival in
prison. Thanks
to
humanitarian
organizations
which have
been able to
secure us one
square meal a
day since the
beginning of
this crisis.
We live on one
square meal a
day at Kondengui
Central
Prison
and that is
available only
when
humanitarian
organizations
provide them
otherwise we
stay without
food. Since
the start of
this year
2019, we’ve
spend
approximately
3 weeks in
total without
food if all
the days are
summed up. We
call on USA to
bypass the
United Nations
who have
preferred to
feed victims
of the crisis
rather than
stop the war
and restore
normalcy."
Yes,
the call is to
bypass the UN
of Guterres,
who has shown
himself
entirely
corrupt, and a
censor.
#DumpGuterres.
After
Guterres on June
28 tried
to erase his
failure and
failure of
credibility on
Cameroon by
embracing an
attempt to
mediate by
Switzerland, in
Geneva Swiss
police used
tear gas against
protesters
of Biya's
corruption,
right in front
of the UN. Given
Guterres'
track records,
perhaps it
was this that
he was welcoming.
Then
even the Swiss
police arrested
for
roughing up a
journalist six
of Biya's guards
- in the way
the NYPD has yet to
act on
Guterres' abusive
guards Ronald
E. Robbins, who
roughed up
Inner City
Press after it
questioned
Cameroon's
ambassador here,
and others who
didn't give
their names, here.
Inner
City Press live
tweeted
the shameful
May UNSC
session and uploaded
Guterres' envoy
Francois
Fall's
failing
statement here.
More
here.
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