As
Kenya Set to Deport Luak to S
Sudan, ICP Asks But Defers to
UNIC,
Not Ban's Son in Law
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 25 – With at least two
South Sudanese threatened with
deportation by Kenya, Inner
City Press on January 25 asked
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric
for the UN's response. From
the UN
transcript:
Inner City Press:
extradition questions, not
South Korea extradition but
are you aware of the impending
extradition of South Sudanese
human rights lawyer Samuel
Luak, who defended Pagan
Amum? Basically, a
number of highly respected
groups are saying that, if
he’s deported, he will face
unjust treatment. So I’m
wondering, has the UN…
Spokesman Dujarric: I, I
have, don’t have an update
here, but, again, you can
check locally with the
mission.
Inner City Press: So
that would be the resident
coordinator? I’m talking
about in Kenya.
Spokesman: In Kenya, you
can check with the UN
Information Centre in Nairobi.
Dujarric
was until December 31 the
spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, who
before he left the UN promoted
his own son in law Siddharth
Chatterjee to the top UN post
in Kenya, as Resident
Coordinator.
In
December as Kenya detained
journalist
Jerome Starkey,
Ban Ki-moon's
son in law
Chatterjee was
entirely
silent. Like
his father in
law has proved
to be with the
Press in New
York, he
is at heart a
censor. But it
makes a
mockery of Ban
Ki-moon's post
Sri Lanka
claims of
"Rights Up
Front," even
as Ban
angles to run
for President
on South
Korea.
In
fact, in Sri Lanka Ban's son in
law is implicated
in presumptive war crimes,
the Jaffna Hospital massacre and
the crushing of civilians with
tanks. And it's from him that
Ban took his advice on Sri
Lanka, where Ban oversaw the
killing of more than 40,000
civilians.
Ban
is allowing those scribes
who ignore this and praise him
to sell access to him on
December 16 for $1200 on Wall
Street. We'll have more on
this.
Tellingly,
as the UN's Resident Coordinator
in Kenya, Ban's son in law
Chatterjee has remained silent
not only on the targeting of
South Sudanese, but on the
protests profiled in a study
released by Article 19, here.
Ban's
son in law ignores Ban's
supposed “Rights Up Front,”
given his action in Sri Lanka
(see below) and because he is
entirely unaccountable: he could
only be fired by Ban Ki-moon,
his father in law. Nepotism is
harmful.
On
December 3 Inner City Press
reported the ever-increasingly
likelihood that Ban Ki-moon's
son in law Chatterjee was
involved in crimes of war in Sri
Lanka, which neither Ban's
spokesman Stephane Dujarric nor
Chatterjee himself when asked
in the UN lobby was
willing to answer.
For some time Inner City Press
has heard that Chatterjee, as
part of the Indian Peace Keeping
Force in Sri Lanka, was a war
criminal. Inner City Press asked
Ban's spokesman Dujarric if
Chatterjee was involved in the
Jaffna University raid, or the
Jaffna hospital massacre,
without answer.
In the UN lobby, Chatterjee said
he would
answer at an “opportune time.”
He has not answered.
Chatterjee had his commander, Dalvir
Singh, write a defense on
Huffington Post and
elsewhere, identifying himself
as the commander of Chatterjee
and of the 10th Para commandos.
And
that's the problem. More here
and here.
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