| Burundi
Orders UN Office Closed in 40 Days SG
Guterres Is Silent As Bans Press Which
Asks
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photo,
Video,
CJR
UN GATE, Nov 23 –
Burundi's government wanted
all human rights presence out,
and its then UN ambassador
Albert Shingiro pushed it,
using a shadow Twitter account
@Jabaga70 which talked about
killing "dogs" - meaning
humans, not canines. Inner
City Press outed him here,
and asked UN about it here.
See also this
(Guterres grinning cravenly at
Shingiro), and Inner City
Press video of Shingiro inside
the UN, and here
outside the UN after
dictator (loving) Guterres
threw Inner City Press out.
Now the
"new" Burundi government has
ordered the UN rep Office
closed by Dec 31, 2021 - and
Guterres has said nothing,
while banning Inner City Press
which asks. The retirees and
Chinese and Middle Eastern
state media he lets in do not
ask about it. Typically,
silence from Guterres who has
been evading and violating
COVID quarantine rules, going
to Boston to meet a flight
from Lisbon. The COVID -
Nkurunziza connection has been
reported even by those who
ignore Guterres' censorship.
And this while Guterres and
Melissa Fleming take money
from IKEA and Pierre Omidyar's
Luminate to "drown out" speech
they don't like, Inner City
Press first story here.
Another story is coming
- now Fleming appears on
Luminate's site.
Guterres'
"ASG for Africa" Bintou Keita
went to Burundi and said that
everything is fine, you - or
perhaps just she - can move
around the country at any hour
and there is no problem. UN
propaganda article here,
ghoulish laughing English
audio here.
Expect nothing or worse from
the UNSC meeting on Burundi
set for the end of October by
Kafando and the South Africa
mission, complicit in
Guterres' now 728 day ban on
Inner City Press.
So
far in 2020, Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming have
refused to answer any of Inner
City Press' written questions
on Burundi and other topics.
More
here.
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