UNITED
NATIONS, April
5 -- When the
UN held its
noon briefing
on Friday,
Inner City
Press told
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
Eduardo Del
Buey that it
would ask a
question about
Haiti
after one
about Sudan. Video
here, from
Minute 23:33.
When
Ban tersely
denied claims
for the UN
bringing
cholera to
Haiti, Inner
City Press
repeatedly
asked for the
legal basis
for dismissal.
Del
Buey and lead
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
refused to
provide the
basis,
but at least
they allowed
the question
to be asked.
But
on April 5 the
UN went
further. After
saying he
would look
into Inner
City Press'
Sudan
question, Del
Buey turned to
another
reporter and
said “last
question.” Video
here, from
Minute 24:18.
Inner
City Press
asked what the
timing problem
was, that the
Haiti question
could not be
asked.
Del
Buey said,
we've spent a
lot of time
here.
Well.
Two days
before, by
holding his
briefing at
the same time
as US
Ambassador
Susan Rice
took questions
by the
Security
Council, Del
Buey escaped
with only two
questions
asked, a six
minute
briefing.
Friday's
was
less than half
an hour, much
of it taken up
by Nesirky
calling in
from Madrid to
promote a
forthcoming
YouTube video
featuring Ban
Ki-moon (and
the courageous
Pakistani
schoolgirl
Malala).
So
the UN doesn't
have half an
hour, after
bringing
cholera to
Haiti and
killing at
least 5000
people? Or how
about sexual
abuse?
The
victim of a
mock rape by
UN
Peacekeepers
from Uruguay
has applied to
enter to US,
one hopes in
order to sue
or otherwise
hold the UN
accountable.
His lawyers
Jayne Fleming
and Robert
Rubin have
filed an
application
for
humanitarian
parole for him
with the US
Department of
Homeland
Security.
What
does the UN
think of this?
Seems like it
might be a
spokesperson's
job to take,
and maybe even
answer, this
question. But
not in Ban
Ki-moon's UN,
apparently. If
Ban can say
the claims of
having killed
5000 people in
Haiti are “not
receivable,”
why receive a
question?
Watch this
site.
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