On
Bashir,
HRW Soft on
UN, Access
Through Faux
Briefing at
UNCA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 18
-- Human
Rights Watch
has just put
out of press
release
demanding that
"UN Members,"
including
those which
never joined
or later quit
the
International
Criminal
Court, oppose
Sudanese
president Omar
al-Bashir
coming to
speak at the
UN General
Debate.
But
HRW
has said
nothing when
UN official
Herve Ladsous
met with
Bashir
in July.
Nor did HRW
say anything
when UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
earlier met
with Bashir,
and Sudan
issued a
detailed
read-out. (The
UN told Inner
City Press it had just
been a photo.)
If
the highest UN
officials can
meet with
Bashir,
without a peep
from
HRW, by what
logic are they
calling on all
member states
to speak out
against
Bashir?
Inner
City Press has
asked HRW to
disclose, for
example, at a
minimum the
issues raised
when its
director Ken
Roth met with
Ban Ki-moon.
Did
HRW raise Ban's terse
dismissal of
claims of
having brought
cholera
to Haiti,
which killed
over 8,000
people?
Were
safeguards for
Ladsous'
use of drones
in Eastern
Congo, in
which he has a
disturbing
history,
urged on the
UN?
HRW's
UN lobbyist,
who formerly
reported on or
from the UN
for Le
Monde and
France 24,
eventually
told Inner
City Press
that HRW would
not even
disclose a
list of topics
raised, in
order to
maintain
access to the
UN.
Is
that why HRW
has said
nothing about
Ladsous' and
Ban's meetings
with
Bashir?
Ken
Roth and his
UN lobbyist
are "all in"
on
stonewalling
on
and enabling
Ladsous' and
Ban's meetings
with Bashir.
But what about
Elise Keppler
or Sarah
Margon, listed
on the press
release? What
about Lewis
Mudge?
Wednesday,
HRW
is
undercutting a
UN and
Austrian
session about
human rights
challenges by
going forward
on Central
African
Republic with
a faux
UN briefing,
as
Saudi-sponsored
Syria rebel
boss Ahmad al
Jarba held,
in the
clubhouse of
the UN
Correspondents
Association.
(UNCA's
trolling first
vice president
Louis
Charbonneau of
Reuters has
been
shown to spy
for the UN,
click here for
that;
another
Executive
Committee Tim
Witcher has
filed a
complaint with
the UN about
how
Ladsous was
asked a
question about
the Congo by
Inner City
Press. The anonymous
trolling
continued September
17.)
Will
HRW at the
event in
UNCA's
clubhouse
publicized
only to those
who pay money
offer any
criticism of
the UN or of France,
which delayed
a UNSC
resolution on
the Central
African
Republic
because, it
said, all of
its main
diplomats were
on vacation in
August? We
will not be
there. Watch
this site.
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