| US Passive
Voice As UN Whitewashes Uighur Genocide
Blinken Silent on Guterres Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 28 – The United Nations
has hit a new low, with its
supposed human rights
commissioner Michelle Bachelet
whitewashing China's genocide
against the Uighurs during a
stage-managed trip to the
country. Now, a passive-voice
statement by Antony Blinken,
below.
At the end of
Bachelet's trip, in a press
conference dominated by
scripted questions from
Chinese state media in
response to which she read
from prepared notes, she said
she was unable to access what
is happening in Xinjiang.
Defund the UN.
Some say
they are surprised by this
outcome, which seems to
include Antony Blinken. But a
fish rots from the head. The
head of the UN system is
Antonio Guterres, and the
reasons for his silence on
China's abuses is more
sinister.
Before being
selected - by China, which
like Russia could have vetoed
him - Guterres took money from
the Gulbenkian Foundation in
Lisbon. The China Energy Fund
Committee, whose Patrick Ho
was convicted of UN bribery
involving UN President of the
General Assembly, offered top
dollar for Gulbenkian's oil
company.
Guterres omitted the money he
took from Gulbenkian from his
financial disclosure form.
And after Inner
City Press, which had
aggressively reported on
Guterres' predecessor Ban
Ki-moon from inside the UN,
asked about it, Guterres had
Inner City Press roughed up
and banned from the UN ever
since. Very Xi.
In
the run up to Bachelet's trip,
Inner City Press put written
questions repeatedly to
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, who daily takes
three of more questions in his
noon briefing from Chinese
state media. But to Inner City
Press, no answer.
Likewise, when
pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel wrote to Guterres'
head of media accreditation
Melissa Fleming asking for
Inner City Press to be allowed
to re-enter the UN and ask its
questions, she refused to
response, as did the supposed
UN Correspondents Association,
on whose Executive Committee
China has a permanent seat.
So how is
it surprising the the UN
covers up for China?
US Antony Blinken
put out a passive voice
statement ignoring that the
head of the UN, Guterres,
entirely deferred to and hid
behind Bachelet, and saying
"she should have been allowed"
rather than "she should have."
Bachelet and Guterres chose to
cover up genocide -- Guterres,
for money. Blinken: "Antony J.
Blinken, Secretary of
State The United States
remains concerned about the UN
High Commissioner for Human
Rights Michelle Bachelet and
her team’s visit to the
People’s Republic of China
(PRC) and PRC efforts to
restrict and manipulate her
visit. While we continue to
raise our concerns about
China’s human rights abuses
directly with Beijing and
support others who do so, we
are concerned the conditions
Beijing authorities imposed on
the visit did not enable a
complete and independent
assessment of the human rights
environment in the PRC,
including in Xinjiang, where
genocide and crimes against
humanity are ongoing. We
are further troubled by
reports that residents of
Xinjiang were warned not to
complain or speak openly about
conditions in the region, that
no insight was provided into
the whereabouts of hundreds of
missing Uyghurs and conditions
for over a million individuals
in detention. The High
Commissioner should have been
allowed confidential meetings
with family members of Uyghur
and other ethnic minority
diaspora communities in
Xinjiang." Should have been
allowed - but didn't complain.
So where if
the US Administration and US
Mission to the UN under Linda
Thomas-Greenfield on this?
They praise the UN and their
work there, amid all the
failures and censorship.
There is no
accountability mechanism for
today's UN. Defund and decamp.
Watch this site - and this
book by Inner City
Press, "Belt
and Roadkill." (Also, Genocide Games of Guterres)
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