| Amid Burma
Doctor Lock Up 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 20 – 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.
Now this: Health
workers across Myanmar have
reported a rise in the arrests
of their colleagues, including
at least 160 since April 13,
with more expected in the
coming days. The Myanmar
military has targeted health
workers across the country,
some for participating in the
Civil Disobedience Movement
(CDM) which is objecting to
the military coup, and others
who are merely providing
medical care to injured
protestors and
bystanders. On
April 20, the military
announced that all health
workers who have been charged
will be disbarred from medical
practice and international
travel and the licenses of
several private health
facilities were revoked for
alleged ties to CDM medics.
PHR has also received
worrisome reports of non-medic
civilians who have been
arrested and charged with
treason simply for possessing
over-the-counter medicines and
firstaid supplies.
A physician in the city of
Mandalay, Myanmar told
PHR: “Our colleagues
have been threatened and
arrested throughout the day
and night, even though we are
not involved in politics and
have been dedicated purely to
medical care. Ambulances have
been taken into custody along
with the crews and rescue
workers. Sometimes even
patients are taken into
custody while they are in
critical condition. We cannot
freely provide health care.
Now the military is seeking
the list of all the doctors
and medical personnel in our
team so that they can arrest
them anytime, anywhere – even
in our houses when we are with
our families. The same things
are going on in Yangon and in
cities and towns throughout
the country.”
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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