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In Cameroon Protesters Jailed For 6 Months As UN Guterres Silent Like Fleming Incommunicado

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP

UNITED NATIONS GATE, August 9 –After Paul Biya who has ruled Cameroon for 37 years on January 28 had his opponent Maurice Kamto arrested, Inner City Press again asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his spokesmen for their comment and action, if any. This came after Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up on 3 July 2018 after it interviewed Biya's Ambassador about the two men's Budget Committee deals and banned from the UN since - Guterres even tried to get Inner City Press banned from the Park East Synagogue, here, which was denied / dodged by his French spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who put up then took down a podcast in which he brags about his "mutually assured destruction" relationship with journalists, here.

  Now with Guterres gone missing for a week and the UN closed on August 12 and apparently no Secretariat noon briefing even on August 13, this: 41 opposition activists were sentenced on August 8 in Douala to six months in prison for merely participating in protests contesting the outcome of the presidential election last October. They had demonstrated to challenge the "re-election" of dictator Paul Biya. And what do missing censor Guterres, and his Global Communicator Melissa Fleming who has been written to, say? So far, nothing. Watch this site.

  Now UN favorite Voice of America has written about ludicrous story about Cameroon, in which the under-development of the SW and NW regions which has characterized the decades of Paul Biya's misrule is blamed only on... separatists. Here it is, "by Moki Edwin Kindzeka KUMBA, CAMEROON - Cameroon says the separatist war in its English-speaking regions has made it impossible to complete repairs and construction of public works like schools and roads. Nearly all contractors and their workers have been chased off by separatist fighters who have vowed to make the regions ungovernable, an official says.   Arrey Agbor, a merchant in the town of Menji, says the lack of usable roads has brought local businesses to a standstill, as they are unable to export food to Nigeria, and unable to import electronics and car parts from the neighboring state." We'll have more on the ongoing incompetence and propaganda - and censorship - by Voice of America.

  On July 22 Inner City Press was provided from Yaounde with video a protest in prison by people illegally detained. Inner City Press asked Guterres, his deputy Amina J. Mohammed, his vacationing (in France) spokesman Stephane Dujarric and his deputy Farhan Haq: "July 22-3: On Cameroon, after the SG took Biya's golden statue and UN Budget Committee favors, what are the comments and actions if any from him and separately DSG Amina J. Mohammed on the protests today by those Ambazonians illegally detained in Kondengui Central Prison?"

  While Haq's dying noon briefing lasted only until 12:14 pm he did not answer this or any other written question from Inner City Press, which published the video here

Inner City Press live tweeted the shameful May UNSC session and uploaded Guterres' envoy Francois Fall's failing statement here.

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