| As UN Admits
Killing Congolese It Said Stole Rice DRC
Objects As Guterres Spins From Vacation
By Matthew
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UN GATE, July 31
– After UN troops in Eastern
Congo shot civilians, on July
27 in a UN briefing the Press
was banned from UN official
Khassim Diagne said that those
shots were "looters," defined
as those making off with bags
of rice.
That is,
under UNSG Antonio Guterres,
the UN had moved from killing
Haitian with cholera to
shooting Congolese who are
hungry, and serving up
justifications to state media
in ill-attended briefings from
which Guterres and his media
accreditation official Melissa
Fleming ban Inner City
Press.
The
justification of shooting
civilains was coordinated on
July 27 by deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq. Lead spokesman
Stephane Dujarric, like
Guterres, remained on vacation
while the UN kills civilians
in the Congo.
On July 31:
"Kinshasa, July 31, 2022: The
Special Representative of the
Secretary General of the
United Nations and Head of
MONUSCO, Mrs. Bintou Keita,
has just learned with
amazement of the serious
incident that occurred this
morning in Kasindi, at the
border between the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and
Uganda. During this incident,
soldiers from the Intervention
Brigade of the MONUSCO force,
returning from leave, opened
fire at the border post for
unexplained reasons and forced
their way through. This
serious incident caused loss
of life and serious
injuries. The
Special Representative of the
Secretary-General of the
United Nations, Mrs. Bintou
Keita, is deeply shocked and
dismayed by this serious
incident. It offers its
deepest condolences to the
families of the victims and
wishes a speedy recovery to
the injured. Faced
with this unspeakable and
irresponsible behavior, the
perpetrators of the shooting
have been identified and
arrested pending the
conclusions of the
investigation which has
already begun in collaboration
with the Congolese
authorities. Contacts
have also been established
with the country of origin of
these soldiers so that legal
proceedings can be initiated
urgently with the
participation of victims and
witnesses, so that exemplary
sanctions can be taken as soon
as possible."
Later on July 31,
the DRC government tweeted,
"The Government strongly
condemns the incident that
occurred at the Kasindi border
post. Blue helmets MONUSCO are
under arrest."
But not for long.
Still from vacation, Guterres
through his deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq (channeled by
Chinese state media) "notes
that the United Nations has
established contact with the
country of origin of the
concerned personnel, with a
view to urgently initiating
judicial proceedings with the
participation of victims and
witnesses so that appropriate
sanctions can be handed down."
This means a "trial" not even
in the DR Congo, with
witnesses either Zoomed in or
ignored, for no or kids-glove
"sanctions" as Guterres allows
for rapes by his peacekeepers.
Inner City Press
will have more on this. It has
asked each of the above named
about the killings, about UN
corruption and censorship, and
to respond to these: protester
Jack Sinzahera said: "We have
our own police that will look
after our security and
property. We don't want
anything to do with Monusco."
and "They are tear-gassing us
because we came to say that
Monusco does not help us,"
protester Anselme Musimbwa
said "They've been in Congo
for 22 years and nothing
works;" and
On DRC,
immediately confirm or deny:
At least five people have died
during protests against a UN
peacekeeping force in Goma in
the east of the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Local
media have reported that they
were shot by the
peacekeepers. The UN
mission, known as Monusco, has
not responded to these
reports. - on deadline.
No answers.
Today's UN is
corrupt.
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