UNITED NATIONS
GATE, April
13
– On the solemn 25th
anniversary of the
beginning of the Rwanda
genocide against the
Tutsis of 1994, the
United Nations of
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres and his
head of communications
Alison Smale hit a
new low. Not only has
Guterres in for example
Cameroon demonstrated
the unchanged nature of
UN collusion with some
mass killings - he and
Smale have sought to
blur and unremember the
UN's role in Rwanda, and
now in Cameroon. Even in
Rwanda, as in Guterres'
UN, there was an attempt
to exploit
the genocide. There
were ads
for car
companies,
safaris...
Rwanda's
former ambassador
to the UN bemoaned,
"This is
wrong. So
wrong! I hope
that
@RwandaRemembers
and
@PSF_Rwanda
will do
something to
prevent this
kind of
disguised
advertisements
at
#Kwibuka26."
We agreed -
but UNSG
Guterres'
morphing of
the issue into
one of
migration, air brushing
out the
UN's culpability,
must also be
confronted.
In
a 7 April 2019 piece
by UN News Centre which
Smale runs for Guterres,
there is no mention of
UN Peacekeepers standing
up and pulling out amid
the 1993 and 1994
killings, nor of some UN
staff helping the
genocidaires, with
radios and white 4 by 4
vehicles. Instead the
piece present
the UN as a poster
child of reconciliation and
turns the
intra-Rwanda genocide
into a lesson
about
migration. Here is the
piece, which
is a new low for the
UN.
Blathering
at yet another
international
conference, Guterres'
fig leaf Deputy Amina J.
Mohammed on April 6
praised Kofi Annan with
no mention of his
admitted role in not
passing on information
about the Rwanda
Habyarinama regime
stockpiling machetes for
the killings.
The
UN is trying to erase
its culpability - and as
one part of it, has had
roughed up and banned
now for 277 days and
counting the Press that
has asked Guterres about
it.
Inner
City Press on 5 July 2018 was
banned from entering the
UN, the day after it
filed a criminal
complaint against UN
Security for physically
removing it from
covering the meeting
about the UN Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres' $6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget, as
witnessed and
essentially cheered on
by senior UN official
Christian Saunders,
tearing its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally twisting
his arm and slamming
shut and damaging his
laptop. On August 17,
Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison
Smale issued a letter
banning Inner City Press
from the UN - for life.
With no due process. She
and Guterres have put
the UN in the US Press
Freedom Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN would
answer Press questions
to the Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric and
his Office; Dujarric said the
same on
camera.
On April
4 more
than two
hours
before the UN
noon briefing Inner
City Press submitted 696 questions: "There
are more than 400+
questions UNanswered. No
answers on March 1 - 27
(!) And
now April
1, 3-5.
No answers at all during
those four days of the
US v Ho trial showing
corruption in the UN
says it all. This ban is
just censorship - and
Inner City Press must be
allowed back into the
noon briefing to ask its
questions in person and
follow up on them.
April
3-5: On
Cameroon and
freedom of
expression,
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on that
"popular
makossa icon
Longkana Ango
Simon aka
Longue Longue
was on Tuesday
arrested in
Douala by
security
forces,
sources have
said. Sources
say Longue
Longue was
arrested at a
hotel in
Douala before
he was ferried
to the
Judicial
Police in
Bonanjo for
questioning.
Though no
reeason has
been advanced
for his
arrest,
sources say it
could be
connected to a
recent video
the artist
published on
social media
criticising
the regime in
place.
In the video
released last
week, the
artist claimed
the detained
leader of the
Cameroon
Renaissance
Movement
Maurice Kamto
had won the
October 7
Presidential
election but
did not
provide proofs
to back his
claims
up. He
accused
incumbent Paul
Biya of
stealing
Kamto’s
challenging
the regime to
organise
elections city
by city and
Kamto will
emerge
winner.
He described
Maurice
Kamto’s arrest
and detention
as politically
motivated"?
What is each
of yours -
particularly
the SG's -
response to
the letter
written and
sent by
Burundi
activist
Manisha
Lievin? AGAIN,
immediately
explain how it
is legitimate
to ban from
enter into the
UN the media
that has been
asking about
these and
other
questions,
with no
hearing or
appeal.
April
4-1: On Myanmar and the
Rohingya, what is the
SG's comment and action
on that in a valley in
Buthidaung township,
near a village that was
home to Rohingya Muslim
families. “A
military airstrike
killed five people,
including one of our
villagers, at around 4
pm yesterday,” Zaw Kir
Ahmed, a community
leader from Kin Taung
village said?
April
4-2: On UN bribery and
censorship, what now is
the SG's comment and
response to the April
3article in Serbia about
CEFC which Mr Guterres
has refused to audit -
and about his refusal to
answer, and censorship
of Press "Gutereš had
and had his own
financial link with the
CEFC, through the
Gulbenkian Foundation.
On the orders of
Guteres, on June 22 and
July 3, 2018, the
security came to me, and
I was banned from
reporting from the UN.
In fact, Gutereš took
advantage of his
security from the UN to
distance me from his
speech at the Park East
Synagogue, and recently
physically stopped me
while he entered the
mosque in 96th
Street" and now this
- "Patrick
Ho, a businessman who
was sentenced to three
years in prison for his
role in the world's
corrupting affair,
claims investigative
journalist Matthew
Russell Li in the
documentary "Hong Kong
Connection, Patrick Ho's
List." Li, in a
documentary broadcast on
the Hong Kong
Radio-Television portal,
revealed Jeremic's role
in this affair, a tens
of millions of dollars,
as well as his private
dilutes, which he made
while serving as the
chairman of the United
Nations General
Assembly. -
Jeremic's testimony at
the Ho trial was
problematic because he
turned out to be working
for "CEFC Energy" (a
Chinese conglomerate led
by Ho, prim. Aut.) While
serving as the chairman
of the UN General
Assembly. He took their
money, exchanged e-mails
with them ... He did
many things. It is
surprising to me that
the focus of the
prosecution was at Ho.
The prosecutors used his
testimony to show how Ho
established a
relationship, and in
fact what Jeremic was
doing might be worse for
the public - Li
said.
Investigative reporters
also uncovered the flows
of money flowing to
Jeremic's accounts. Hoov
CEFC paid Jeremic as a
consultant a total of $
5.3 million. It turns
out that some companies
that paid this money are
completely phantom,
because they do not
exist at the registered
addresses at all."
As always, what is the
process of appealing or
getting a hearing on the
now 274 day ban amid
this questions, or
process to reapply which
was denied summarily on
2 January 2019? How is
this not
censorship?) and
the translated 22 minute
documentary about
Patrick Ho and CEFC's
bribes through the UN
including Mr. Guterres'
refusal to answer Inner
City Press' question on
it on 5 December 2018,
and that Inner City
Press for allegedly not
complying with interview
"rules" has been
disqualified from
reporting within the
UN? Again,
the sentencing
memorandum includes
quotes from his e-mails
regarding aiming to
violate sanctions and
deal in arms not only to
Chad but also South
Sudan, Libya &
Qatar. What is the SG's
comment and action?
Again, why has no audit
even been begun of CEFC,
at least like the one
Mr. Guterres'
predecessor did of Ng
Lap Seng's Sun Kian Ip
Foundation? Why did Mr
Guterres omit payments
from Gulbenkian
Foundation, which sought
to sell its oil company
Partex to CEFC China
Energy, from his public
financial disclosure
covering 2016? Where are
the more recent public
financial disclosures -
has Mr. Guterres ended
that program? Why?
April
4-3: Also on China, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on that a
prominent Chinese human
rights lawyer said he
was blocked on vague
national security
grounds from leaving the
country to participate
in a U.S. State
Department-sponsored
studies program.
Chen Jiangang said he
was pulled aside Monday
at Beijing airport and
told by a customs agent
that he was forbidden to
leave but he was given
no detailed reasons or a
written
explanation.
April
4-4: On Zimbabwe, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on that
400 people have been
jailed for the violence
that rocked the country
in January this
year. The violence
was triggered by
President Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s decision to
announce a 150% fuel
price hike that had a
domino effect on prices
of basic goods and
services. Labour
federation, the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions
(ZCTU) reacted by
calling for a stay-away
that turned into an orgy
of violence bringing
business to a halt for
close to a week.
Authorities announced 1
000 people including
children had been
arrested for the riots
that forced Mnangagwa to
deploy the army. Live
ammunition was used with
civil society and human
rights groups claiming
some 17 people had been
killed while dozens were
left with gunshot wounds
amid claims of rape by
the army.
April
3-1:
On Indonesia, what is
the SG's comment and
action if any on that
"military operations
conducted by the
Indonesian Military
(TNI) in Nduga regency,
Papua, in the past few
months have led to
various human rights
violations?
April
3-3: On UN sexual abuse
and exploitation, please
immediately provide all
if-asked further
information about the
allegations put online
on March 28 when there
was no noon briefing,
regarding Burundi and
Republic of Congo
peacekeepers and still
the Cameroon troops'
rape allegations you
have not provide any
further information on?
March
25-5: On your /
Spokesperson
Dujarric's
recent podcast
interview,
please
immediately
explain what was
meant by a
relationship
with journalists
of "mutually
assured
destruction" -
and why the
podcast links
are mostly
404/no longer
online.
March
25-8: On the
SG's March 22
appearance on
96th Street,
please
immediately
provide the name
of the UN DSS
officer who
spoke to NYPD on
96th Street to
get them to
restraint in
advance Inner
City Press while
UN Photo and
others like AP
walked freely,
the basis for
this censorship
and any and all
records
regarding
it.
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