For
US, Ban Told
Pillay to
Quit, Offered
DGACM to S.
Africa, of 2
Year Deal
& Sri
Lanka
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 6,
updated --
After Navi
Pillay
accepted or
was forced to
accept a two
year than than
four year
second term as
UN High
Commission for
Human Rights,
Inner City
Press asked
her directly
and on camera
if this made
her less
independent,
less able to
speak out. She
declined to
answer.
Now
Inner City
Press has
exclusively
learned from
well placed
sources how
the two year
compromise was
reached.
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon,
at the
direction of
the United
States and
others, told
Pillay that
she could not
have a second
term, that to
make it look
better she
herself should
resign.
Pillay
refused, and
threatened to
go public.
Other
states, most
prominently
Pillay's
native South
Africa, were
enlisted to
try to find a
solution.
In a cynical
new low, South
Africa was
offered the
Under
Secretary
General of the
Department
of General
Assembly and
Conference
Management
position
later passed
from Egypt to
an "Acting"
Belgian
associate of
Susana
Malcorra
if only South
Africa would
convince
Pillay to
leave.
But
South Africa
refused.
And
so the
two-year
compromise was
reached,
putting Pillay
in a weakened
position. Her
team and the
reportedly
herself will
now visit Sri
Lanka.
Despite 40,000
civilians
killed and no
accountability
-- in fact,
one of the
generals
responsible,
even according
to Ban's own
Panel of
Experts
report, is
still listed
as an adviser
to Ban Ki-moon
-- we'll see
what Pillay
says, or can
say. Watch
this site.
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