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On S
Sudan, Ban
Speaks of
Media But
Takes No Qs,
Silent on
Derelict UN
Police
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Follow Up To
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS, July
21 -- In the
UN's continued
withholding of
news and
answers about
South Sudan,
the reports of
the UN's own
knowledge of
abuses are now
being withheld
from its own
impacted
national
staff.
Now UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon has
played fast
and loose with
the media. On
July 21 it was
announced Ban
would have
“press
remarks” at
3:30 pm. Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq if
the topic
would be only
Inter-Parliamentary
Union, or
something
else. Haq said
IPU, that's
what it's
about.
But
once upstairs
at 3:30 pm,
Ban Ki-moon
launched into
a statement
about South
Sudan, while
taking no
question on
it. Video
here. He
spoke about
the media in
South Sudan,
when his
UNMISS has
Banned the
media from
entering and
covering the
Protection of
Civilian sites
at UN House
and Tomping
for ten days.
(Inner City
Press for the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
asked
about it on
July 20.)
Ban did not
mention the UN
Police who
left their
posts during
the violence,
nor why his UN
is treating
them with
kidgloves, and
not naming
them, due to
their
nationality.
Inner City
Press asked if
it could ask a
question and
was told no.
So it's
propaganda. .
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