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Cameroon Protesters Jailed For
6 Months As UN Guterres Silent
Like Fleming Incommunicado
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, August 9 –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.
Now with
Guterres gone
missing for a
week and the
UN closed on
August 12 and
apparently
no Secretariat
noon briefing
even on
August
13, this: 41
opposition
activists were
sentenced on August 8
in Douala to
six months in
prison for
merely
participating
in protests
contesting the
outcome of the
presidential
election last
October. They
had
demonstrated
to challenge
the
"re-election"
of dictator
Paul
Biya. And
what do
missing censor
Guterres, and
his Global
Communicator Melissa Fleming who
has been
written to,
say? So far,
nothing. Watch
this site.
Now UN favorite
Voice of
America has
written about
ludicrous
story about
Cameroon, in
which the
under-development
of the SW and
NW regions which
has
characterized
the decades of
Paul Biya's
misrule is blamed
only on...
separatists. Here it is, "by
Moki Edwin
Kindzeka
KUMBA,
CAMEROON -
Cameroon says
the separatist
war in its
English-speaking
regions has
made it
impossible to
complete
repairs and
construction
of public
works like
schools and
roads. Nearly
all
contractors
and their
workers have
been chased
off by
separatist
fighters who
have vowed to
make the
regions
ungovernable,
an official
says.
Arrey Agbor, a
merchant in
the town of
Menji, says
the lack of
usable roads
has brought
local
businesses to
a standstill,
as they are
unable to
export food to
Nigeria, and
unable to
import
electronics
and car parts
from the
neighboring
state." We'll
have more on
the ongoing
incompetence and
propaganda
- and
censorship -
by Voice of
America.
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.
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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