At UN,
Ladsous Orders
Ban's Guards
To Expel Press
from Open DPKO
Meeting
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
18 --With
scandals
surrounding UN
Peacekeeping,
from covering
up child
rape by French
“peacekeepers”
in the Central
African
Republic to buying
sex in Haiti
and selling
UN Police jobs
in the DR
Congo, on June
18 UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon was
scheduled to
give a speech
to UN Force
Commanders in
Conference
Room 9 of UN
Headquarters
in an open
meeting,
following a public
photo-op with
the
commanders.
But when Inner
City Press
showed up for
the photo op,
UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous
directed one
of his
officials to
tell Inner
City Press to
leave.
Inner
City Press
refused,
noting that
Ban Ki-moon's
appearance was
listed
in the online
Media Alert
of the UN
Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit (MALU).
Nevertheless,
Ladsous'
official
insisted, and
Ladsous
himself began
to film Inner
City Press
with his
phone.
When Ban
Ki-moon and
his security
detail of at
least four
arrived, they
proceeded into
Conference
Room 9, as did
Inner City
Press
accompanied by
a MALU staff
member and a
staffer from
UN Photo. But
just as Ban
Ki-moon began
speaking, two
of his
security
officers came
over and told
Inner City
Press to
leave. In the
hall they said
that “the
organizer” --
Ladsous -- had
ordered it.
Inner
City Press
asked, if some
UN official
tells you to
throw out the
media, you
just do it?
"If he told
you to throw
me on the
ground, would
you throw me
on the
ground?"
Another
security
officer said,
at this point
the media is
not coming in.
That's it.
This is
called
censorship.
And it
happened right
in front of
Ban
Ki-moon.
When Ban came
out of
Conference
Room 9, he had
a discussion
with Ladsous -
what about? -
then walked on
by. Periscope
Video
II here.
This is Ban's
UN,
UNtransparent,
descended to
censorship.
The old
UN
Correspondents
Association
has said
nothing, just
as they said
nothing and more
when Ladsous
said he would
not answer
Inner City
Press and Ban's
spokesman
decided not to
call on Inner
City Press to
put a question
to Ladsous, on
the CAR rapes
and cover up.
The new Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has demanded
an explanation
and response
from MALU and
the Department
of Public
Information
above it. A
senior UN
official told
Inner City
Press, “There
is no court.”
This use
of UN Security
is ironic,
given that as
Inner City
Press reported
on June 17
and asked
Ban's deputy
spokesman
about on June
18, Ban shook
hands in the
UN in Geneva
with a person
on the US
Al-Qaeda
terrorist
list, photo
here. But
today's UN has
become the
source of
lawless
censorship,
amid its
scandals.
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