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President France Burundi Crocodile Tears
While Silent on UN Rapes and Censor
Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, June 22
– In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 720
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on June 1
French Ambassador Nicolas de
Riviere (and July's president
German Ambassador Christoph
Heusgen) held a censored
online press conference about
the coming month(s) in the
Security Council.
Now on
June 22, with France still
silent on its ally Cameroon
killing journalist Sam Wazizi
(French UN spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric de la
Riviere won't even take the
questions, including about his
role in working with Sri Lanka
war criminal Palitha Kohona
and UNCA to oust Inner City
Press, story here,
Kohona here),
this was put out by Nicolas de
Riviere on Burundi: "The
members of the Security
Council took note of the final
results of the presidential
and legislative elections, as
declared on 4 June by the
Constitutional Court of
Burundi, and the swearing in
of President Ndayishimiye on
18 June in a peaceful
transition of power following
the untimely death of
President
Nkurunziza.
They welcomed the broadly
peaceful conduct of the
elections. They stressed the
importance of pursuing
national unity, political
inclusiveness and
peacebuilding and encouraged
all parties to continue to
promote a peaceful atmosphere
among all Burundians. In that
regard, they echoed the call
of the President of the AU
Commission, calling for an
inclusive engagement of all
Burundian political and social
actors in addressing the
challenges facing the country,
in a spirit of tolerance and
with the best interests of the
nation at heart, in order to
create the conditions for the
country’s
development.
They welcomed the commitment
of the UN towards long-term
stability and sustainable
development in Burundi and
reiterated their full
commitment to, and support of,
the people of Burundi."
Nothing on UN peacekeepers'
rapes, including of children,
just like on June 19 not a
word about the cholera the UN
brought, killing 10,000
Haitians. We'll have
more on this. Here
was Inner City Press' video
when it covered the Security
Council's mid 2017 trip to
Haiti, before it was roughed
up by corrupt Guterres' UN
Security and banned now 717
days.
On June 1
they took questions only from
pre-screened in-house
correspondents, ignoring or
even pretending not to see a
question about Cameroon by
Inner City Press. Twitter here,
Periscope here.
Neither
said a word about the
slaughter in Cameroon; they
did not answer Inner City
Press on-line question about
new cases of UN sex abuse,
including a child rape in
South Sudan by UNMISS data
dumped by the UN on June 1.
The
Program belatedly went up -
with countries on which the
two ambassadors ignored and
censored questions: DRC, Mali,
South Sudan. We'll have more
on this.
Back on
February 3, before Coronavirus
hit New York (but after the
first cases covered up in
Wuhan in December 2019)
Belgian Ambassador Marc
Pecsteen de Buytswerve held an
in person but also
friends-only press conference
about his upcoming month as
Security Council president,
with few questions on Africa.
Program of Work tweeted by
Inner City Press here.
Belgium,
of course, oversaw the
colonialism and killing in the
Congo. Its mission to the
UN,in 2018 and since, did not
respond to Inner City Press'
formal communications about
Guterres having it roughed up
and banned. Still the Mission
and Ambassador pontificate
about press freedom and even
the safety of journalists.
The next,
such as it was, is that Jared
Kushner will brief the
Security Council behind closed
doors on February 6 at noon,
when Guterres' spokes- /
hatchetman Stephane Dujarric
holds his noon briefing will
refusing all questions from
Inner City Press despite an on
camera promise.
Watch this site.
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