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By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR PFT

UNITED NATIONS GATE, July 29 – How desperate is Antonio Guterres to get a second term as UN Secretary General? To placate China, and continue his related failure on Myanmar, he first ordered his Special Adviser on Children and Armed Virginia Gamba conflict to move to the "good child killer" List B the Tatmadaw Kyi, including integrated border guard forces. Photo here. This according to a "strictly confidential" report obtained and exclusively published by Inner City Press.  Now on the eve of Gamba's press conference in a UN Press Briefing Room Guterres has banned Inner City Press from now for the 391st day, another exclusive:

   Gamba was moving toward listing NATO for its actions in Afghanistan. When she received push back from the Belgians, she immediately blamed the idea of listing NATO on Guterres' content-with-censorship chief of staff Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti.  Also, the Office has done nothing on Cameroon - not surprising, given Guterres' failure on that and other countries. The whole lot should be fired - at a minimum, say it now: no second term for Guterres. He should not even remain in office until the end of this term.

 As to Viotti, she was repeatedly told soon after Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up and banned, and did nothing. Those UN scribes now feigning concern about dead children not only help Guterres cover up child rapes including by not asking about it and giving Guterres tuxedo-ed awards, some like Al Jazeera colluded to get Inner City Press banned, and others stayed silent.

 Guterres' UN press corpse is so rotten that on July 26 there was not a single in-person question at its noon briefing, while Guterres and his spokesmen refused Cameroon and other questions from banned Inner City Press and covered up for three day child rape by a Morocco peacekeeper in DRC. Children and Armed Conflict, indeed. #DumpGuterres

Guterres doesn't care that even Guatemalan diplomat Gert Rosenthal called him out for systemic failure on Myanmar, just as The Onion mocked his failure on the Uighurs in China. Guterres wants a second term and has covered up his links with CEFC China Energy, including by roughing up and banning Inner City Press, to try to get it.

On July 1, after Guterres lavished praise on China's Xi at the G20, in Hong Kong protesters faced off with riot police, the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to repressive Chinese rule. Guterres, typically, said nothing. His campaign slogans about preventive diplomacy have proven empty, even as he tries to ride the Belt and Road to a second term that would end whatever's left of the UN's credibility.

  On June 6, banned Inner City Press asked Guterres and his spokes- / hachetman Stephane Dujarric: "June 6-3: On China, human rights and the SG, what is the SG's response to reports that China has announced former Hong Kong police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung’s nomination for the top post at the United Nations organisation fighting drug crimes - Mr Tsang's nomination could also be controversial for his management of the Occupy protests, during which tear gas was used on pro-democracy demonstrators.  That shone a spotlight on government efforts to clamp down on activists in the former British colony, with the gatherings of mostly students dubbed the "Umbrella Movement" after they used umbrellas to shield themselves from the pepper spray.  Concerns over the autonomy of Hong Kong's judicial system have increased, as the Beijing-backed government seeks an extradition bill that critics say could be used to target dissidents living in the city.  That legislation may have helped drive a record turnout of more than 180,000 on Tuesday night for Hong Kong's annual vigil to remember the Chinese military's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Police put the number of attendees at 37,000. The nomination is China’s first attempt to fill a top position at a major international organisation since it detained Meng Hongwei, then the head of the global policing body Interpol, last year.  It was understood UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres would select a successor in a few months to replace the current executive director, Yury Fedotov of Russia, who had been in office since 2010"?"

  More than two weeks later, no answer at all despite Dujarric's promise that there would be answers. Guterres is entirely corrupt. And this:  "The former commissioner of police, Andy Tsang, said on Saturday the level of force used by police during the June 12 protests was necessary and restrained.  Tsang said from what he saw on live TV broadcasts, there was a level of violence caused by protesters that was more serious than what had been seen during the 2014 civil disobedience movement, when he was leading the police force.  He said it would not have been possible for the police to stop the violent action if they had only used tear gas, but not rubber bullets and bean bag rounds. He added the police had showed restraint by only using force "passively", and more people would have been hurt had police not acted at the time.  Nearly 80 people were injured in the clashes on June 12."

 This are Guterres' friends and candidates. Guterres is corrupt.

June 6-3: On China, human rights and the SG, what is the SG's response to reports that China has announced former Hong Kong police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung’s nomination for the top post at the United Nations organisation fighting drug crimes - Mr Tsang's nomination could also be controversial for his management of the Occupy protests, during which tear gas was used on pro-democracy demonstrators.  That shone a spotlight on government efforts to clamp down on activists in the former British colony, with the gatherings of mostly students dubbed the "Umbrella Movement" after they used umbrellas to shield themselves from the pepper spray.  Concerns over the autonomy of Hong Kong's judicial system have increased, as the Beijing-backed government seeks an extradition bill that critics say could be used to target dissidents living in the city.  That legislation may have helped drive a record turnout of more than 180,000 on Tuesday night for Hong Kong's annual vigil to remember the Chinese military's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Police put the number of attendees at 37,000. The nomination is China’s first attempt to fill a top position at a major international organisation since it detained Meng Hongwei, then the head of the global policing body Interpol, last year.  It was understood UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres would select a successor in a few months to replace the current executive director, Yury Fedotov of Russia, who had been in office since 2010"?  No answers. #DumpGuterres.

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