| On Burma
Killings Guterres Praised Army on Child
Soldiers Shameful Drop From List of Shame
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY / UN GATE,
April 17 – 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.
But the reality
is, Guterres removed Burman's
or Myanmar's army from the UN
"list of shame" for recruiting
and using child soldiers,
despite more than 200 cases.
Emboldened by corrupt
Guterres, they are recruiting
and using even more. Now a
call for Guterres, trying to
steal a second term, to
reinstate them on the list -
but from a group which seems
to join Guterres in banning
Inner City Press from (its)
press conference. Watch this
site.
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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