| Tapped for
UN Human Rights Another Guterres Crony
Volker Turk, Censor, Cover-up Cameroon
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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Sept 8 – The United Nations
has hit a new low, after its
now-gone human rights
commissioner Michelle Bachelet
withheld her report on
Xinjiang until the very hour
she left, after whitewashing
China's genocide against the
Uighurs for her whole term.
Now to
replace Bachelet, Antonio
Guterres has tapped his crony,
Volker Turk formerly of UNHCR
then a Guterres promoter.
(Inner City Press back on July
2 predicted
this pro-China move, here).
On human rights,
Inner City Press asked him
about the slaughter in
Cameroon of Anglophones by the
army of Paul Biya - and he'd
never heard of it. Story
here.
When Inner
City Press published video
(here) of Turk's answers
about Gramsci, Inner City
Press was then blocked from
the UN's web site. So he is a
cover up man and a censor.
Anyone who had put up with
Guterres reign of censorship
and corruption has no human
rights credibility or chops.
As to Bachelet,
at the end, in a press
conference dominated by
scripted questions from
Chinese state media in
response to which she read
from prepared notes, she said
she was unable to access what
is happening in Xinjiang.
On June 13,
Bachelet having served China
said she was now leaving. And
Guterres praised her: "She has
moved the needle in an
extremely challenging
political context." Yes - she
moved his UN's needle even
more pro-China. And did
nothing about Guterres' ban on
Press. Defund the UN.
Some say
they are surprised by this
outcome. But a fish rots from
the head. The head of the UN
system is Antonio Guterres,
and the reasons for his
silence on China's abuses is
more
sinister.
Before being
selected - by China, which
like Russia could have vetoed
him - Guterres took money from
the Gulbenkian Foundation in
Lisbon. The China Energy Fund
Committee, whose Patrick Ho
was convicted of UN bribery
involving UN President of the
General Assembly, offered top
dollar for Gulbenkian's oil
company.
Guterres omitted the money he
took from Gulbenkian from his
financial disclosure form.
And after Inner
City Press, which had
aggressively reported on
Guterres' predecessor Ban
Ki-moon from inside the UN,
asked about it, Guterres had
Inner City Press roughed up
and banned from the UN ever
since. Very Xi.
In
the run up to Bachelet's trip,
Inner City Press put written
questions repeatedly to
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, who daily takes
three of more questions in his
noon briefing from Chinese
state media. But to Inner City
Press, no answer.
Likewise, when
pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel wrote to Guterres'
head of media accreditation
Melissa Fleming asking for
Inner City Press to be allowed
to re-enter the UN and ask its
questions, she refused to
response, as did the supposed
UN Correspondents Association,
on whose Executive Committee
China has a permanent seat.
So how is
it surprising the the UN
covers up for China?
But where
if the US Administration and
US Mission to the UN under
Linda Thomas-Greenfield on
this? They praise the UN and
their work there, amid all the
failures and censorship.
There is no
accountability mechanism for
today's UN. Defund and decamp.
Watch this site - and this
book by Inner City
Press, "Belt
and Roadkill." (Also, Genocide Games of Guterres)
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