On
Rohingya, UN
Silent Like On
Sri Lanka,
Joining OIC as
PR Like
#AskJPM?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 14 --
The Rohingya,
Kachin and
other groups
stand
to be lost in
the Burmese
shuffle amid
much praise of
Myanmar.
Yesterday
Inner City
Press asked
the UN about
the Rohingya,
specifically
Bangladesh
saying it will
close its
borders to
those
trying to
flee. The UN
has yet to
answer:
Inner
City
Press:
Bangladesh has
said,
formally, that
they will
close their
borders to
Rohingya
fleeing from
Myanmar, what
they view as
persecution in
Myanmar, and
in the past
the
Secretariat
has
commented on
Bangladesh's
treatment of
Rohingya. Do
you have any
comment? Is
there anything
that the UN
system, DPA
[Department of
Political
Affairs] or
anyone, is
trying to do
with regard to
this
closing of the
border?
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky: Let
me check with
my colleagues
who deal with
that
matter; the
Refugee
Agency, with
Political
Affairs and
others,
certainly.
Eighteen
hours
later, no
comment on
this, nor
on crackdowns
in Sri Lanka
against the
media and
about
survivors of
the 2009
"bloodbath on
the beach" who
are trying to
testify,
despite UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
(still only
internal)
"Rights Up
Front"
plan triggered
by the UN's
inaction in
2009.
The
Organization
for Islamic
Cooperation's
outgoing
Secretary
General
Ihsanoglu is
in Myanmar,
with Turkey's
foreign
minister and
others.
Inner City
Press twice
asked
Ihsanoglu
about the
plight of
Muslims in
Sri Lanka; he
expressed
concern but
each time
noted that Sri
Lankan
foreign
minster GL
Peiris has
said the
country would
like to join
the
OIC in some
way. September
26,
2013 video
here from
Minute 13:05,
and October
28 video here,
from Minute
20.
Would
Sri Lanka
joining with
the OIC just
be public
relations,
like this
from Sri Lanka,
or the JP
Morgan
Chase's
abortive
#AskJPM
question and
answer set for
today then
canceled?
At the UN,
we're
still waiting
for the UN's
answers, on
Myanmar,
Bangladesh and
the
Rohingya, and
on Sri Lanka.
Watch this
site.
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