| Antonio Guterres Tweets of
Patriarchy As Hides Rapes By UN Staff in Iraq
and Maxwell Links
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Sept 8 – While
it took Antonio Guterres'
tweet about patriachy to push
the calls for him to resign
into new audiences, many of
whom had not even been aware
who the UN Secretary General
was, it is the hypocrisy that
should ensure his needed
departure.
The UN proudly
quoted
Guterres, on Twitter,
"The #COVID19 pandemic is
demonstrating what we all
know: millennia of patriarchy
have resulted in a
male-dominated world with a
male-dominated culture which
damages everyone – women, men,
girls & boys."
But this
is the same Guterres who in
June when Inner City Press,
which Guterres has banned
from the UN for 798 days and
counting, published a video
of UN staff in Tel Aviv having
groups sex with a prostitute
in a UN van, refused to answer
about.
Then
Guterres lied that the driver
Juan Carlos Cunillera has been
put on leave without pay, even
when that wasn't true: he is
being paid.
Last week
another UN staffer, Karim
Elkorany, was arrested and
arraigned in the U.S. Court
for the Southern District of
New York for drugging and raping
women in Iraq where he was a
UN communications
strategist.
Guterres has refused to answer
Inner City Press' written
questions about why, once the
UN was informed Elkorany's
drugging and raping, he was
allowed to simply leave Iraq
and set up shop in New
Jersey.
This same
"repatriation" is the only
punishment Guterres mete out
to UN Peacekeepers accused of
raping children, most but not
all of these girls and some as
young as five, in the DR Congo
and Central African Republic
and Haiti.
Then, unlike even
his predecessor Ban Ki-moon,
Guterres through his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric refuses
to provide basic if-asked
information about the
cases. Inner City Press
has also published leaked
audio about Guterres ordering
the end of a probe of sexual
harassment by one of his cronies,
audio here.
Also in the
SDNY is the higher profile sex
trafficking case of Ghislaine
Maxwell, on whose Terramar
Project board of directors
Guterres' head of "UN
Partnerships" Amir Dossal was
one of only five members.
Guterres has refused to answer
or act on this as well.
So
alongside his talk of
patriarchy, Antonio Guterres
sits atop what could be
described as an international
sex trafficking conspiracy,
misusing the UN's and his own
legal immunity and having
roughed up and banning the
Press which asks about it.
The UN being
the UN, with full impunity,
will probably double down and
have propagandist Melissa
Fleming, funded by IKEA and
Pierre Omidyar, claim that
Guterres being under fire for
saying patriarch makes him a
hero. But he is a hypocrite.
Inner City
Press on September 5 re-applied
for re-entry to the UN, which
it covered in person for a
decade before
"anti-patriarchy" Guterres had
it ousted. The questions Inner
City Press is asking should
have to be answered, in person,
now more than ever. Or
Guterres should certainly be
hoisted on his own
hypocritical patriarchy
tweet.
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