In
Mali Attack in Kidal Draws
Penthouse Spin From UN
Dujarric Fronting For Big Tony
G
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN GATE, Jan 16 –
The UN
Security
Council in the
second half of
March 2020
under China's
presidency
did not hold a
single publicly-viewable
briefing or
issuance of
Press Elements,
on Mali or any
other site of
a UN Peacekeeping
mission.
Then as demonstrators
calling for
President
Keita to resign were
teargassed and at
least two
killed, there
was not a word from
the Security
Council or
even for
usually
robo-tweeting
UNSG
Antonio
Guterres, Big
Tony G. Maybe
Guterres'
silence is
because he is
cheering on
the arrest of
journalists, including
Liberté TV
journalist
Hawa Kamissoko, after
he and Stephane
Dujarric has
Inner City
Press roughed
up and
banned since,
video here.
Guterres' UN
is corrupt.
On
Aug 18,
IBK was
arrested
along with his
prime
minister.
Inner City
Press in the
morning put in
a written
question to
Guterres and
his Spokesman
Dujarric, as
well as
Melissa
Fleming: "On
Mali what are
the comments
and actions if
any of SG
Guterres on
that there are
reports of
gunfire inside
an army base
near the
Malian capital
Bamako. Angry
soldiers have
been shooting
in the air and
roads have
been
blocked.
The Norwegian
embassy says
it has
received
information
that troops
are on their
way to the
capital and
the French
embassy has
advised people
to stay at
home.
Earlier there
were reports
that armed men
had abducted
the finance
minister from
his
home. It
comes as
President
Ibrahim
Boubakar Keita
is under
growing
pressure to
step down in
the face of
large
opposition
protests."
There
was no
answer at all
- just
Dujarric
putting out
statements
about Cote d'Ivoire (on
which is is
also now
refusing to
answer, even
as Bedie
writes to
him). But now
long after a
coup and its
laundering,
and with
Guterres
lusting after
an UNmerited
second
term, on January
15
Inner City
Press
published this: "The
Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
(SRSG) and
Head of
MINUSMA, Mr.
Mahamat Saleh
ANNADIF, has
learned with
dismay of the
Improvised
Explosive
Device attack
(IED/mine)
perpetrated
against a
MINUSMA’s
tanker truck,
which was part
of a logistics
convoy, today
at about 3pm
in the
vicinity of
Tessalit, in
the Kidal
region.
Following the
explosion, two
Peacekeepers
were seriously
injured. One
of them
unfortunately
succumbed to
his injuries
during his
medical
evacuation.
The second is
currently
receiving
appropriate
care.
While securing
the site,
another
explosive
device was
detected and
neutralized in
the vicinity
of the
explosion
spot.
The SRSG
strongly
condemns such
acts, which
are intended
to paralyze
MINUSMA’s
operations on
the ground and
indiscriminately
affect UN
personnel."
Then on
April 16 from
a $10 million
penthouse
apartment (or
the Hamptons), this:
"The
Secretary-General
strongly
condemns the
attack against
a convoy of
the United
Nations
Multidimensional
Integrated
Stabilization
Mission in
Mali (MINUSMA)
that took
place on 15
January 2021
near Tessalit
in Kidal
region, which
resulted in
the death of
an Egyptian
peacekeeper
and serious
injuries to
another.
The
Secretary-General
expresses his
deepest
condolences to
the bereaved
family, as
well as to the
people and
Government of
Egypt. He
wishes a
speedy and
full recovery
to the injured
peacekeeper.
The
Secretary-General
emphasizes
that attacks
against United
Nations
peacekeepers
may constitute
a war crime.
The United
Nations will
spare no
efforts in
supporting the
Malian
authorities in
identifying
and promptly
bringing to
justice the
perpetrators
of this
heinous
attack.
The
Secretary-General
reaffirms the
solidarity of
the United
Nations with
the people and
Government of
Mali.
Stephane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 16
January 2021."
Guterres
is a fraud and
a censor. #No2dTerm
This as
Inner City
Press, which
reports on Mali
and South
Sudan for example
is excluded
by the UN
Secretariat
from getting promised
answers - for
example to
this question
it posed:
"what is the
UN's response
to the
massacre" - UN
failure.
More
here.
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