| Guterres Was
Silent on Cameroon and Even
Location of His Junkets after He
Stole Election
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 29 –
As inside the increasingly
marginal United Nations a
process begins to select a
successor to Antonio Guterres
who banned
Inner City
Press from the
UN as it
reported on
his links
with briber
CEFC China
Energy and to
sex trafficker
Ghislaine
Maxwell,
it is time to review the
history. Part 8:
In March 2017 Inner
City Press asked the UN about
Cameroon's Paul Biya
government's cut of the
Internet to the Anglophone
west of that country, which
had begun under Guterres'
tenure. There was no answer,
and things would only get
worse.
So too on
Western Sahara, where Guterres
declined to provide any
read-out of his talks with
Morocco's King, or explanation
for reassigning MINURSO
mission staff away from the
disputed territory.
The
UN had been charged with
running a referendum with
independence as an option, and
has spent billions in taxpayer
money - without holding a
referendum. In fact, the UN
"peacekeepers" sent there had
sprayed pornographic graffiti
in ancient cases, and given in
to Morocco's demand they use
Moroccan license plates while
in the territory.
At the UN
Security Council stakeout, a
Moroccan UN communications
official was allowed to cut
off the microphone, while
Inner City Press had been told
that a spurious Moroccan
mission complaint against it -
for daring to stream video
shot from the UNSC stakeout -
was a strike against it. It
was like trying to play
basketball with five fouls,
one short of being ejected.
But Inner City Press played
on.
Guterres began refusing to
disclose even where he was,
for example on a March 2017
junket to Portugal. Dujarric
would not answer even where
his new boss was, spending
public money.
But when
the Committee to Protect
Journalists and RSF came to
meet with Guterres, to present
themselves as relevant and
with access, none would
provide a read-out. CPJ had
been told about the
restrictions on Inner City
Press but had done nothing.
Guterres limited access to
such people, those who would
refrain for noting that
upstairs, this emperor had no
clothes. This is
what you get from a stolen
election: a naked and
vindictive king.
More on this
UNgutted 8 - and the UN press
corpse - on X for Subscribers
here
and Substack here
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