| Amid Burma
Coup, 2 Arrested In Bid to Kill PR to UN,
Junta Slams USUN, Guterres Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint
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UN GATE, August
10 – 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,
an official of President of
the GA Volkan Bozkir, who in
fine Myanmar fashion refused
to name the authors of the
letters and CVs of opponents
to UN Sec-Gen Antonio
Guterres, bragged about the
session. On June 18, after a
regime-like 1-man election,
Guterres grabbed five more
years.
And his envoy on
Myanmar, Christine Schraner
Burgener, bragged at a
stakeout Inner City Press was
banned from that the people in
Myanmar all know her and she
would give them hope. Why?
Meanwhile India,
president of the Security
Council for August, has no
meeting on Burma and
Ambassador Tirumurti refused
Inner City Press written
questions, here.
On August 6 this:
Criminal complaint on Inner
City Press' DocumentCloud here:
the arrests of PHYO HEIN HTUT
and YE HEIN ZAW for conspiracy
to assault and make a violent
attack upon Myanmar’s
Permanent Representative to
the United Nations [Kyaw Moe
Tun]. HTUT and ZAW were
charged in two separate
complaints... Between
at least in or about July 2021
through at least on or about
August 5, 2021, HTUT and ZAW,
citizens of Myanmar currently
residing in New York,
conspired to injure or kill
Myanmar’s Permanent
Representative to the UN."
Inner City Press
exclusively live tweeted Zaw's
detention hearing, here,
story here.
Now, song / video here.
But the UN of Guterres and
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming refuse to answer any
of Inner City Press' written
questions - and when asked
orally by another, Dujarric
confirmed receipt of the Quinn
Emanuel law firm's letter but
said no change of status and
so far no reply, video here.
Linda Thomas Greenfield, to
whom Inner City Press has
written but who has yet to act
on Guterres' ban of US-based
Press, tweeted about the
disrupted plot. And now the
junta in Nya Pyi Taw has
cited, yes, the UN's own rules
and Vienna Convention to say
any criticism of it is wrong,
and ask again for extradition
to face a charge with the
death penalty. Watch this
site.
Guterres removed
Burma'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.
Tellingly, after
UN PGA Volkan Bozkir's
spokesman Brenden Varma (who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter) bragged there would
be a GA vote on Myanmar on May
18, the vote is postponed and
Varma, it seems, deleted his
tweet without explanation,
while uploaded selfies from
Woodstock, Vermont. This is
what the UN has come to:
corrupt censorship. Burma
indeed.
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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