| After Inner City Press Scoop on UN
Prostitution Video More Pick Ups and
Questions to UNTSO
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
Germany
- Honduras
- UN
Q - Tel
Aviv Austria
UN GATE, June 27
– 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.
And this,
more closely reported than
BBC: "The video, released by Inner City Press on Tuesday,
shows a woman in a red dress
straddling a man in the back
seat of a vehicle with U.N.
marking as it drives
away. Inner
City Press, an outlet that has
reported and shined a light on
corruption at the world body
for years and was banned from
reporting
on U.N. grounds in New York in
2018, reports that the vehicle
was part of a U.N. Truce
Supervision Organization
(UNTSO) mission in Tel Aviv,
Israel."
Inner City
Press has been informed in
detail by UNTSO and Tel Aviv
sources of the history of
prostitution - which the UN
calls sexual exploitation and
claims it has zero tolerance
for - at work here. HaYarkon
Street is well known for
prostitution, and now hotels
are closed by COVID-19. There
is also a history of those in
the UN vehicle.
UN whistleblowers
who due to Guterres'
retaliation won't speak to the
UN Secretariat have spoken to
Inner City Press. But the UN's
belated investigation is
excluding all this
information.
Inner City
Press has written to UNTSO
and... no response.
Inner City
Press formally requested the
code to ask questions at the
June 26 UN noon briefing,
including to a UN Peacekeeping
official who spoke there,
misleading, about COVID-19 -
and Inner City Press will
continue to demand
re-accreditation.
On June
26, despite the story now
being reported from Austria
to Israel
to Switzerland,
those let in from Al Jazeera
and other publications asked
nothing - but one did,
gratefully, video here.
And, because they didn't want
to double down on cover up at
least right now, here in the
UN transcript:
"update on the statement
regarding UNTSO, the Inner
City Press story. You
said it could be UNTSO?"
UN Spokesman:
"No, what I, what I'm saying
is that it's clearly an UNTSO
vehicle.… The people involved
are just about identified."
When?
Now
the UN is trying to reclaim
the narrative. Their own
propaganda UN
News ran a story -
which, like the BBC's
pathetic story, made it
appear that the UN proactively
began investigating itself,
ignoring that Inner City Press
first published and asked
Guterres et al about it on
June 23. (Dujarric calls four
days "a little more than two
day). Who wrote the BBC pro-UN
story? Their last listed UN
Correspondent's a good friend
of Dujarric. We'll have more
on this. Watch this site.
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