Killing
of Cecil the
Leon Raised at
UN, ICP Asks
if Dentist
Should Be
Arrested
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
30 -- When
after the
passage of an
Illicit
Wildlife
Trafficking
resolution in
the UN General
Assembly its
proponents
Gabon's
Foreign
Minister
Emmanuel
Issoze-Ngondet
and German
Ambassador
Harald Braun
took
questions,
they were all
about Cecil
the Lion,
killed in
Zimbabwe.
Inner
City Press
asked if
Cecil's
killed,
Minnesota
dentist Walter
Palmer, should
be
arrested.
Video
here.
Gabon's
Issoze-Ngondet,
formerly his
country's
ambassador to
the UN, said
it is
troubling but
one must wait
for the
investigation
being
conducted by
Zimbabwe.
Palmer may not
be waiting -
he has, BuzzFeed
reports,
not responded
to attacked at
contact by the
Fish and
Wildlife
Service.
Inner City
Press'
question about
whether the
issue of
wildlife
trafficking
will ever make
it to the
Security
Council for a
binding
resolution,
given that
Germany's
Harald Braun
said it is the
fourth largest
funder of
terrorism, was
not answered.
Back at the
Security
Council
stakeout,
there were
those who
marveled at
the attention
devoted to a
faraway lion
compared to,
for example,
human victims
of police
abuse. Of
course, it's
not either -
or. Watch this
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