Ban
Ki-moon's UN
Evicted
Investigative
Press on False
Pretenses,
Here's How
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June 14
--
How does the
UN under Ban
Ki-moon
and his "Public
Information"
chief Cristina
Gallach
pretextually
evict the
critical Press
from its long
time office
and confine it
to minders,
hindering
further
reporting on
their
corruption?
This UN
"Aide
Memoire,"
which Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
called
"leaked" and
refused to
answer
questions on,
shows how.
First,
Ban's
spokesman
Dujarric made
a non-public
deal on
January 26
with Giampaolo
Pioli of the
UN
Correspondents
Association to
privatize the
UN Press
Briefing Room
on January 29
- but not tell
anyone it was
private.
Next,
when Inner
City Press
which quit
UNCA in 2012
finding it too
close to Ban
and corrupt,
for example
Pioli's
unilateral
granting of a
"UN" screening
for Sri
Lanka's war
crimes denial
film at the
request of its
Ambassador
Palitha Kohona
who had been
Pioli's
tenant, click
here,
appeared to
cover the
event, get
Dujarric to
order Inner
City Press to
leave, without
showing any
paperwork.
After
Inner City
Press, as it
said it would,
left as soon
as a single UN
Security guard
said to,
conspire with
Under
Secretary
General
Gallach, whom
Inner City
Press had
previously
questioned
about her role
in the Ban's
Ng Lap Seng UN
bribery
scandal, to
issue a letter
on February 19
telling Inner
City Press to
leave its
office and the
building on
two hours
notice -
without once
speaking to
Inner City
Press.
Throw Inner
City Press in
the streets, audio
here,
evict its ten
years of
investigative
files from its
office, video
here, then
just before
Inner City
Press could
re-apply for
its stolen
office, gave
it to an
Egyptian state
media, Akhbar
Elyom, whose
correspondents
Sanaa Youssef,
a former UNCA
president, has
not anywhere
near met the
UN's stated
three day a
week
requirement
for such an
office, and
who never asks
questions.
To top
it off, leave
South South
News, founded
with Ng Lap
Seng's money
and by Francis
Lorenzo, who
has pleaded
guilty to UN
bribery
charges, with
its office and
Resident
Correspondent
accreditation.
See
Courthouse
News, here.
Thus the
investigative
Press is
punished,
publicly, and
a chilling
message sent
to anyone else
who might dare
to cover Ban
Ki-moon's role
in the
corruption
scandal, while
he seeks to
run for the
South Korean
presidency in
2017. This
Ban, or his
spokesman,
coyly denies
of course.
Of the
retaliatory
eviction, Ban
said “that is
not my
decision.” But
it is. He was
set extensive
information,
including the
total
inconsistency
of what
Gallach told
Nobel Prize
winner Jose
Ramos Horta
when he
inquired for
Inner City
Press (she
said she
ouster order
was based on
an “internal
report”) and
what the UN
told the U.S.
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee
(that the UN
has “no
records” that
the meeting
was closed.
Ban Ki-moon is
responsible;
he has created
an atmosphere
of
retaliation,
has retained
and empowered
Under
Secretaries
General like
Herve Ladsous,
who linked
rapes to
R&R and
openly refuses
Press
questions, and
Gallach. We'll
have more on
this.
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