As
Sudan Fires Into Khartoum
North Hospital Inner City
Press Asks UN Guterres Who
Says Nothing Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, January 14 –
Despite Sudan's Omar al Bashir
being indicted for genocide,
Antonio Guterres has met with
him, as acknowledged to Inner
City Press by Guterres' deputy
spokesman Farhan Haq on 29
January 2018 (before Guterres
had Inner City Press roughed
up and banned
from the UN for 177 days
now) - and, we are now told by
UNHCR sources, in 2012, see
below. Now Bashir under fired
it offering as an inducement
for support raises and new
housing to "his" police. (At
the UN Guterres has used UN
Security to rough
up the critical Press
and put it without due process
on a non-public
"barred"
list that his official in
charge of media access Alison
Smale said
she has nothing to do with,
but would take under
advisement - then nothing,
including no answers to
questions.) On January 14
Inner City Press asked
Guterres and his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric, who had promised
to answer, "On Sudan, what is
the SG's comment and action on
that Sudanese security forces
Sunday fired tear gas and real
bullets on Khartoum North
Hospital and other medical
facilities in other towns said
a statement issued by the
Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate?
Again, please state when and
why Mr Guterres met Omar al
Bashir." But there was no
answer. Guterres' UN is
corrupt - and no one allowed
into the UN noon briefing
asked about Sudan. Back on 20
December 2018, banned Inner
City Press asked Guterres and
his spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and Farhan Haq,
"December 20-2: On Sudan, what
is the SG's comment and action
on the anti-government
protests that started on
Wednesday in northern Sudan
and have been spreading to
other cities?" Even by 7 pm on
December 28 with more
journalists arrested in Sudan,
for example Ahmed Younes from
Al-Sharq Alowsat newspaper and
Maha Al-Tilib from Attayar
newspaper, both just for
reporting on the protests in
Wad Nubawi, Omdurman, there
was no answer at all, nor to
46 other questions Inner City
Press has submitted including
on conflicts
of interest by Guterres.
It turns out the UN has become
so corrupt under Guterres that
one of lead Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric's Associate
Spokespeople Ms
Keishamaza
Rukikaire who
actually seems to care or at
least re-tweet about Sudan has
been ordered not to answer
banned Inner City Press'
written questions about Sudan,
etc, see here.
Finally after 7 pm on December
28, from Guterres' spokes - /
hatchetman Stephane Dujarric,
this: "The Secretary-General
is following with concern
developments in the Republic
of Sudan, including the
reported violence and
fatalities. He appeals for
calm and restraint and calls
on the authorities to conduct
a thorough investigation into
the deaths and violence. He
extends his condolences to all
those who have lost loved ones
in the violence.
The Secretary-General
emphasizes the need to
safeguard freedom of
expression and peaceful
assembly." Meanwhile AI counts
at least 37 dead, and now
there's video of Al-Sudani
newspaper journalist Yassir
Abdallah taken to
hospital after being
assaulted by security
personnel who fired ammunition
into newspaper’s office. The
protests have spread and
Bashir's Rapid Support Forces
are being deployed in
Khartoum. Still silence from
Guterres, now on a murky
publicly funded junket with a
major conflict
of interest. In Sudan
Bashir has suspended
universities in Khartoum and
sought to cut the Internet.
Guterres is missing in action,
not even disclosing where he
is or how much it costs the
public. Birds of a feather.
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