In
Mali Attack Near Tessalit No
Info From UN No Answers From
Censor Guterres Stealing 2d
Term
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN GATE, April 25
– 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.
And irresponsible: while
Guterres'
MINUSCA
mission until
recently
sent Inner
City Press and
other media
its news of peacekeepers
getting shot
(while never
announcing sex
abuse and
other
allegations
against the
mission),
Inner City
Press was removed
from the list,
and this April
25 news:
"Three United
Nations
peacekeepers
have been
seriously
wounded in a
rocket attack
on a military
base in
northern Mali,
UN and local
officials
said.
Olivier
Salgado, the
spokesman for
the UN
peacekeeping
mission in the
West African
country,
MINUSMA, said
Sunday’s
attack took
place on a
base in
Tessalit,
which houses
Malian
soldiers, UN
peacekeepers
and French
troops." What
kind of UN tries to
limit distribution
of news of its
peacekeepers
getting shot?
Guterres must
go - no 2d
term.
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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