By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 17 --
Ever since the
UN of
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon did
nothing, and
worse, as
40,000
civilians were
killed in Sri
Lanka in 2009,
its officials
and
spokespeople
have claimed
they want to
learn from
what happened.
But
now, not only
did the UN to
withhold its
internal
report on the
lesson
learned. After
Inner City
Press obtained
and exclusively
published
the report on
October 11
and Ban's
associate
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
answered Press
questions
about it,
today lead
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
said that
nothing had
been
confirmed, the
documents
referred to
"may or may
not exist."
Well, it
exists and
cannot be
covered up.
Inner City
Press put
it online here.
Asking
about the UN system
human rights
plan citing
failure in Sri
Lanka as its
impetus, which
it published
on October 14,
Inner City
Press sought
clarification
from Nesirky:
was this
proposal to
merge "Rule of
Law" into
human rights
the UN's main
response?
Nesirky
replied
that Inner
City Press
must be a
"member of the
magic circle,"
since it cites
"documents
that may or
may not
exist."
Really?
Here
is the post
Sri Lanka
"action plan"
which Inner
City Press published
on October 11.
Here
is
the UN system
human rights /
rule of law
proposal
Inner City
Press published
on October 14.
Back
on October 11,
Nesirky's
associate
Farhan Haq
told Inner
City Press "in
terms of other
information
that we can
put out, we’ll
be preparing a
summary of the
Action Plan."
Actually,
the
"one pager" of
the action
plan already
existed. Inner
City Press had
it, and
now publishes
it here.
The UN
already
failed,
massively, in
Sri Lanka in
2009. Why
would it now
be trying to
deny the
existence of
its own
reports into
the matter? We
will have more
on this. Watch
this site.
Footnote:
Despite
Nesirky saying
he had read
the UN's
transcript of
what his
associate
Farhan Haq
said on
October 11,
when his
office called
"the lid is
on" and closed
at 6:30 pm on
October 17,
the day's noon
briefing
transcript had
still not been
put online.
Inner
City Press has noted
that these UN
transcripts
are
intentionally
inaccurate,
for example
when Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson was
the guest,
omitted the
name "Free
UN Coalition
for Access"
which the
UN otherwise
tries to
silence
but leaving in
"UN
Correspondents
Association,"
Ban's UN
Censorship
Alliance (including
on Sri Lanka,
here).
So
we are using
video now, as
more
trustworthy. Click here for a sample, and
there will be
more.
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