Amid
Bangladesh
Killing
Opposition, UN
Says Nothing,
Faint Sri
Lanka Echo?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 28 –
Talk about UN
selective
focus: 30
protesters
are killed in
Bangladesh and
when Inner
City Press
asks Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesman
about it,
there is no
information,
no
recognition,
nothing.
Across
First Avenue
from the UN a
protest was
taking place
(Inner City
Press tweeted
photo here),
yellow taxi
cabs
stopped and
signed
demanding
justice and UN
action.
Bangladeshi
opposition
leader Delwar
Hossain
Sayedee, 73
years old, was
sentenced
to death. In
the ensuring
protests, at
least thirty
people were
killed at
least 30
people.
After
the UN
spokesperson
had no answer,
Inner City
Press ran
through the
garage to the
Security
Council.
There, a
Council
member's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
slammed the
Bangladesh
government's
“witch
hunt” trials,
saying there
is not enough
evidence.
Bangladesh's
Permanent
Representative
Monem is a
fine man,
notwithstanding
his
recent role
in handing to
Ban Ki-moon a
“whitewash”
report about
the killing of
40,000
civilians in
Sri Lanka.
As a UN
matter, Monem
is very
involved in
the
Peacebuilding
Commisssion.
But what about
this? Watch
this site.
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