| Amid Burma
Killing, Guterres Envoy Bragged Now Banned
Inner City Press Asks CPJ of FB
By Matthew
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UN GATE, July 28
– After the Burma coup regime
fired its New York-based UN
ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun for
his speech in New York in the
usually scripted UN General
Assembly, an official of
President of the GA Volkan
Bozkir, who in fine Myanmar
fashion refused to name the
authors of the letters and CVs
of opponents to UN Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres, bragged
about the session. On June 18,
after a regime-like 1-man
election, Guterres grabbed
five more years.
And his envoy on
Myanmar, Christine Schraner
Burgener, bragged at a
stakeout Inner City Press was
banned from that the people in
Myanmar all know her and she
would give them hope. Why?
On July 28, Inner
City Press asked the Committee
to Protect Journalists about
the UN's weak response on
Burma, while SG Guterres and
USG Melissa Fleming have no
content neutral rules for
accreditation (or in their
case banning) of Press - and
about Facebook and the
Rohingya. Video here.
Inner City
Press has in writing asked UN
Spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric, Farhan Haq an and
others about the
recommendations that they do
more - without answer. Today's
UN is corrupt.
The reality is,
Guterres removed Burma's or
Myanmar's army from the UN
"list of shame" for recruiting
and using child soldiers,
despite more than 200 cases.
Emboldened by corrupt
Guterres, they are recruiting
and using even more. Now a
call for Guterres, trying to
steal a second term, to
reinstate them on the list -
but from a group which seems
to join Guterres in banning
Inner City Press from (its)
press conference.
Tellingly, after
UN PGA Volkan Bozkir's
spokesman Brenden Varma (who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter) bragged there would
be a GA vote on Myanmar on May
18, the vote is postponed and
Varma, it seems, deleted his
tweet without explanation,
while uploaded selfies from
Woodstock, Vermont. This is
what the UN has come to:
corrupt censorship. Burma
indeed.
Watch this site.
After
Guterres and his spokespeople
dodged about who is Burma's
ambassador -- eager to get
China's support for a second
term, taking the US for
granted -- this from the US
Mission: "Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield met
virtually this afternoon with
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun,
Permanent Representative of
the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar to the UN. Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield commended
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun for
his courageous and
compassionate statement at the
UN General Assembly informal
meeting on Burma last week and
expressed the United States’
support for the people of
Burma and the restoration of
the democratically-elected
government."
Dujarric,
while taking public money to
work for the UN, says he is
the spokesman for the
incumbent, like part of a
political campaign. We'll have
more on this.
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