| After Inner City Press Scoop UN
Sexploitation Video Stonewalling UN Spox
Claims Will Act
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
BBC
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UK - Honduras
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UN GATE, June 26
– The United Nations claims to
have a zero tolerance for
sexual exploitation by its
staff and peacekeepers, but
routinely covers up their
abuses including the rape of
children, withholding basic
information which was provided
to the Press under Ban Ki-moon
but not now under Antonio
Guterres.
Inner City Press, which
Guterres has banned from the
UN for 724 days as it asks
about these and his abuses, on
June 23 received from outraged
UN whistleblowers video of
sexual exploitation, they
said, in a white UN-marked
vehicle, here.
Now Instagram,
Facebook.
The UN has
for three days refused to
respond in any way, from
Guterres through Amina J.
Mohammed to Achim Steiner and
Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric
and dozens of other UN
officials and member states,
apparently hoping for another
UN cover up.
Well, no.
Inner City
Press early on June 25
reported what it knows and has
now been taken without credit,
as part of this litmus test
the UN has failed: the car
belongs to UNTSO mission, in
Tel Aviv, and the car plate is
205. Photo here.
Both are civilian
international staff of UNTSO
mission headquartered in
Jerusalem. "Their names are
known."
It asked, now
what will corrupt censor
Guterres do?
Belatedly,
after trying to cover up for
three days, on the evenin gof
June 26 from Dujarric's $10
million penthouse apartment on
86th Street on Manhattan Upper
East Side, this: "We are
deeply disturbed by content of
video apparently involving
personnel from #UNTSO. An
investigation was swiftly
launched & is moving very
quickly. Appropriate action
will be taken. 9:25 PM · Jun
25, 2020 from New York,
USA·Twitter for iPhone." Photo
here,
credit to Inner City Press for
example here.
Inner City
Press does not believe this.
Dujarric, presumably for
Guterres, has been covering up
dozens of UN child rapes for
at least the past year. Inner
City Press has been asking
about them; Dujarric and
Guterres had Inner City Press
roughed up and banned.
Dujarric said he would answer
written questions, but then he
stopped. And now, all if-asked
information about UN rapes is
withheld. So, no. It is time
for accountability, and an end
to UN censorship. Watch this
site.
Tellingly, in
terms of UN censorship
(alliance), in a Press-less
"press conference" on June 25
those allowed in by Melissa
Fleming did not ask about this
obvious scandal. Periscope here.
Inner City
Press after inquiries uploaded
the video and many hours ago
asked Guterres, his head of
communications Melissa
Fleming, spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and some 30 UN system
officials about it: "This is a
formal request for UNSG
Guterres' comment and action
on the video Inner City Press
has just uploaded of UN sexual
exploitation in a UN marked
vehicle, here
as well as
on the June 22 admission
by Sri Lanka former PR Kohona
that his country led a
campaign to get Inner City
Press ousted and banned from
the UN after it reported on
mass killings in Sri Lanka, as
Inner City Press was also
doing as to Cameroon when your
UN banned it now for 721 day.
What is the appeals process?
On deadline." Now
by the next day, no response
from these UN officials,
except this from UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression: "Your message
couldn't be delivered to
[David A. Kaye] because it
exceeds the size limit."
Ironic. Inner City Press has
sent out and will send out
many more requests for
response and action. Watch
this site.
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