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By Matthew Russell Lee, Video here, Vine here

UN GATE, Oct 25 -- How did the UN of Antonio Guterres celebrate "UN Day"? Guterres sent a flunky he has promoted despite sexual harassment allegations, Fabrizo Hochschild, to lie to the correspondents he lets in that he wants to hear from critics. Video. This while Guterres has had roughed up and banned critical Inner City Press for 479 days, while covering up UN sexual abuse, below.

  Now as Guterres lives alone in a $15 million mansion and flies to Lisbon on the public dime at the drop of a hat, this from the UN Staff Union, leaked to Iner City Press: "Dear Colleagues,   Today is United Nations Day and we join with many others in commemorating the positive and beneficial difference it has made to the world over the last 74 years. We are proud to work for an Organisation that does so much good in the world. Our efforts help people everywhere; we tackle global issues such as climate change and help bring peace to areas where conflict has caused so much damage.   The Secretary-General proudly states that the UN is “…pushing for human rights and gender equality”, and rightly so. However, recent actions are bringing into question whether the UN is prepared to practice what it preaches. The Secretary General is refusing to reverse the illegal 5.2 percent pay cut that has resulted in UNOG staff working for less money than other colleagues at same grades in other Geneva-based UN agencies, therefore having less to spend on themselves and their families.   And let us not forget the treatment of consultants, many living from one month to the next, and unpaid interns, all who have helped build the UN of today.   The UN and the Secretary-General must put their own house in order, and fast. It’s no good telling countries around the world they must do better if the UN cannot look after its own staff properly.   Earlier this week we asked you to share with us your experience of the illegal 5.2 percent pay cut. It would be really helpful if you could take just 5 minutes to let us know how it has affected you and what you think the UN should do next.   Please send us a brief email with your thoughts and views at unog staff council at un org so we can show just how badly our staff are being affected.   For continued success, it is critical that management and the Secretary General live up to their words, and treat their own staff with the dignity, respect, and equality they seek from the rest of the world."

  Stephane Dujarric, the lead spokesman of UN  Guterres, and now Guterres' Global Communicator Melissa Fleming and even Assistant Spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino, have joined their boss in personally covering up child rapes and sexual abuse by UN personnel, including recently a child rape by a UN "peacekeeper" from Paul Biya's Cameroon in DR Congo.

  On the afternoon of October 21 the UN cursorily disclosed child rape and sexual exploitation by UN "peacekeepers" from South Africa, Indonesia, Mauritania and again Cameroon, in DRC and Central African Republic. Only the most scant information was provided and Inner City Press the same day and again the next day asked in writing for the if-asked information the UN has in its possession and provided to the Press even under Ban Ki-moon - but not under Guterres.

Now Guterres, his deputy Amina J. Mohammed, Dujarric and his deputy Farhan Haq, Melissa Fleming and others yet to be named have refused two days to answer or even acknowledge Press questions about their UN's five new sex crimes. Here they are, as data dumped October 21 and UNresponded on now for two days:

A South African UN peacekeeper is accused of child rape in the DR Congo as part of Guterres' MONUSCO from November 2018 through September 2019 - that is, multiple rapes;

A Cameroon UN peacekeeper is accused of sexual exploitation of a person they were paid by the public to supposedly protect in CAR from May through June 2019 in Guterres' MINUSCA;

Three Indonesia UN peacekeepers are accused of sexual abuse of a person or persons -- the UN leaves it unclear, apparently intentionally -- they were paid by the public to supposedly protect in DRC in September 2019 as part of Guterres' MONUSCO;

Two Mauritania UN peacekeepers are accused of sexual exploitation of a person or persons -- the UN leaves it unclear, apparently intentionally -- they were paid by the public to supposedly protect in CAR from August 2018 through August 2019 in Guterres' MINUSCA, a full year;

A Mauritania UN "police" officers is accused of sexual exploitation of a person they were paid by the public to supposedly protect in CAR in November 2018 in Guterres' MINUSCA. There is a claim of paternity, and the UN lists no even interim action taken.

  These are sex crimes, protected by impunity, covered up by Guterres through censorship. These people are criminals. Guterres covers up child rapes and has banned the Press which asks about this, and his use of public money and failure on Cameroon, for 479 days with no due process or appeal.

  And no answers, despite Dujarric's previous on camera commitment / lie about answering Inner City Press' questions. Video here.

 Worse, Dujarric repeated and expanding on the lies on September 19, video here, claiming that Inner City Press is in touch with UN Media Accreditation - while Melissa Fleming has not answered a single letter and has banned the active Press - 83,000 Twitter followers and counting, covering the courts and #6ix9ine and Halkbank and OneCoin and the Honduras narco regime Guterres also covers up for - from entering to cover the UNGA week.

   Guterres' UN sent this out:

"From: malu malu [at] un.org
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
Subject: U.N. eAccreditation request for Matthew Lee Ref # M5413398 has been declined
To: Inner City Press:

Greetings Matthew Lee from Inner City Press,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M5413398, has been declined for the following reason: Media accreditation was withdrawn on 17 August 2018."

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