| After Burma
Ambassador Fired Guterres Speaks of
Democracy While Trying to Steal a 2d Term
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY / UN GATE,
March 15 – After the Burma
coup regime fired its New
York-based UN ambassador U
Kyaw Moe Tun for his speech in
New York in the usually
scripted UN General Assembly,
the New York Times reported
that the speech had been in
Geneva.
Seven hours
later, that remained
uncorrected. Still, an
official of Volkan Bozkir, who
in fine Myanmar fashion
refuses to name the authors of
the letters and CVs of
opponents to UN Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres, bragged
about the session.
Now on March 15,
this canned statement from
Guterres: "The
Secretary-General is appalled
by the escalating violence in
Myanmar at the hands of the
country’s military. The
killing of demonstrators,
arbitrary arrests and the
reported torture of prisoners
violate fundamental human
rights and stand in clear
defiance of calls by the
Security Council for
restraint, dialogue and a
return to Myanmar’s democratic
path.
The Secretary-General urges
the international community to
work collectively and
bilaterally to help bring an
end to the repression by the
military. He urges the
military to allow a visit by
his Special Envoy as an
important element in calming
down the situation and setting
the stage for dialogue and
return to
democracy.
The Secretary-General will
continue to stand with the
people of Myanmar and their
democratic aspirations." Yeah
- democracy while Guterres
himself tries to steal a
second term by blocking all
opponents, without any legal
basis.
On March 5, this
dodging from UK Ambassador
Barbara Woodward, who colluded
in the ban of Inner City Press
for all of February as
President of the UN Security
Council and didn't answer
Inner City Press' written
questions on the UK's failures
in Cameroon: "you don't see
China and Russia as presenting
roadblocks to any consensus
position?
As I said earlier, we're in
discussion with partners about
a Council product, but it's
important that the Council
speak with one voice. So
that's what we'll be
pursuing."
Corrupt
censors. Hypocrites.
After
Guterres and his spokespeople
dodged about who is Burma's
ambassador -- eager to get
China's support for a second
term, taking the US for
granted -- this from the US
Mission: "Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield met
virtually this afternoon with
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun,
Permanent Representative of
the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar to the UN. Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield commended
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun for
his courageous and
compassionate statement at the
UN General Assembly informal
meeting on Burma last week and
expressed the United States’
support for the people of
Burma and the restoration of
the democratically-elected
government."
Dujarric,
while taking public money to
work for the UN, says he is
the spokesman for the
incumbent, like part of a
political campaign. We'll have
more on this.
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