| UN Sell Out of Afghan Women
Had Grandi Lax as Female Staffer Killed now
Guterres Cover Up
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
June 27 – How corrupt is
today's UN system leadership,
from Antonio Guterres to his
successor at UNHCR, Filippo
Grandi? Inner City Press,
banned from the UN for its
reporting on and questions
about Guterres including his
incomplete financial
disclosures, has written about
Grandi before. But this is
about Afghanistan, as the UN
blesses a men-only conference
in Doha:
...Grandi was
deputy SRSG to the UN
peacekeeping mission in
Afghanistan. It was just
before his move that a female
UNHCR staff member was killed
on her way to the office in
one of the provinces. An
investigation was conducted
and it was discovered that she
had been having an affair with
a very highly placed (married)
Afghan official in the
provincial government. His
family was upset with this
relationship and, according to
the Pashtun honor code, the
UNHCR girl had to be killed:
shot by gunmen on a passing
motorcycle.
From Inner City Press'
whistleblowing sources, UN
never answers
questions:
Worse still, it
turns out that Grandi and his
then live-in partner Daniel
Endres (a Swiss working at
UNHCR at the time and also
serving as Grandi's Deputy
Chief of Mission - no conflict
of interest there...
especially when writing
'performance evaluations') had
been advised by the UN
security official in the
gravest terms when he
discovered the nature of the
female colleague's
relationship with the married
Afghan official to move her
out of the province as soon as
possible and ideally out of
Afghanistan. Grandi again
justified his inaction by
saying the relationship was a
'private matter' and it was
inappropriate to be
intervening so 'heavy
handedly' in people's romantic
lives.
The
investigators, according to
all available evidence, took a
dim view of Grandi's
'management style' in this
matter and apparently
recommended disciplinary
measures against him. Their
report stalled on the
then-High Commissioner's desk
(the late Ruud Lubbers) who,
for reasons unknown, decided
not to impose any sanctions on
Grandi.
The saga
has gotten worse - watch this
site. abs Pte Ltd. et
al., 23-cv-1346 (Rakoff)
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