UN
Relieved at
Killing,
Welcomes Haiti
Impunity, New
FUNCA Approach
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS &
BEYOND,
January 12 --
The UN has hit
a new low. On
January 9,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon said,
“I am relieved
that these
terrorists
have been
killed by the
authorities of
the French
government.” Video here.
On January 12,
Reuters
late-reported
that "UN
spokeswoman
Vannina
Maestracci
said the
organization welcomed
Friday's
decision”
- the decision
being one of
impunity for
the UN
bringing
cholera to
Haiti and
killing 8700
people and
counting.
An
organization
which is
“relieved” at
killings and
“welcomes”
impunity for
its own
negligent
killing calls
for a
different form
of (new) media
coverage than
it is getting,
and
encouraging.
Ban Ki-moon's
comments
on the attack
on Charlie
Hebdo, and
about his relief that
the terrorist
had been
killed,
were both to
hand-picked
groups of
correspondents,
not announced
in the UN's
Media Alert.
The
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has protested,
both on
procure and
substance.
In another
telling new
now, on
January 12
Inner City
Press put this
question to UN
deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq:
“on DRC on the
long-promised
operation to
neutralize the
FDLR, now that
the Luanda
summit has
been canceled,
what is the
hold up in
MONUSCO and
its FIB taking
action?”
No answer was
provided. UN
Peacekeeping
is run by Herve
Ladsous,
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row to hold
the position -
and,
significantly,
one who while
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
in 1994 argued
for the escape
of
genocidaires
from Rwanda
into Eastern
Congo.
When Inner
City Press
began asking
about that, Ladsous said “I don't answer your
question,”
and even
blocked the
Press' camera,
Vine
here.
FUNCA
complained,
the UN's
Censorship
Alliance
didn't; this
is how the UN
works, or
doesn't. And
so, something
new. Watch
this site.
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