To
Egypt,
UN Feltman Planned
Trip Before
Aug 14
Killings,
Mis-Reported
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 16 --
UN official
Jeffrey
Feltman's
upcoming trip
to
Egypt, which
Inner City
Press first
reported with
exclusive
audio on
Thursday night,
is being
presented as
showing the
UN's response
to
the killing of
hundreds of
protesters on
Wednesday.
But
Feltman's trip
was planned
and in the
works BEFORE
Wednesday's
killings. The
audio
Inner City
Press put
online on
Thursday night
began with
Egypt's
Permanent
Representative
Mootaz
Ahmadein
Khalil
answer Inner
City Press, on
Feltman,
"Before what
happened, he
might go." Click here
for audio.
Then
he went on to
say, "we have
been contacted
by the
Secretariat"
of the UN,
"Mr. Feltman
expressed his
interest to
go." He
said, through
Egypt's
Mission to the
UN, Feltman
asked "to set
up a number of
high level
meetings and
we have done
so."
On
Thursday night
after Inner
City Press'
report with
audio, UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
Spokesperson's
Office still
called
the trip "a
rumor."
Then
just before
Friday's noon
briefing, they
spoon-fed the
confirmation
to Reuters UN
bureau's
Michele
Nichols,
who turned it
into a
two
paragraph
"report."
The
implication,
repeated, was
that
this was the
UN's
responsiveness
to the killing
of hundreds on
Wednesday.
But
that's not
true. This is
how
mis-direction
by the UN, and
mis-reporting
on the UN,
work.
Then
you have the
UN Human
Rights
machinery.
Special
Rapporteur on
internally
displaced
persons
Chaloka Beyani
intoned by
Skype about
accountability.
But was
General Sisi
watching?
Beyani to his
credit
previously criticized
the UN Mission
in Cote
d'Ivoire under
Bert
Koenders for
its actions
and inactions
as IDPs were
killed in the
Nahibly camp.
But
Koenders got a
promotion, to
the UN Mission
in
Mali. This
is the UN.
Watch this
site.