In
Mali UN Peacekeeper Killed by
IED Now SC Statement By Kenya
Refusing Pandora Papers Qs
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN GATE, Oct
4 – The UN
Security
Council under
China's presidency
did not hold a
single publicly-viewable
briefing or
issuance of
Press Elements,
on Mali or any
other site of
a UN Peacekeeping
mission.
Then as demonstrators
calling for
President
Keita to resign were
teargassed and at
least two
killed, there
was not a word from
the Security
Council or
even for
usually
robo-tweeting
UNSG
Antonio
Guterres, Big
Tony G. Maybe
Guterres'
silence is
because he is
cheering on
the arrest of
journalists, including
Liberté TV
journalist
Hawa Kamissoko, after
he and Stephane
Dujarric has
Inner City
Press roughed
up and
banned since,
video here.
Guterres' UN
is corrupt.
On
October 2,
2021
the UN mission
said, and
Inner City
Press nearly
immediately
re-published,
"A
MINUSMA
peacekeeper
died today
after his
convoy hit an
improvised
explosive
device in
Tessalit,
Kidal region,
early this
afternoon,
with four
others
seriously
injured.
The Special
Representative
of the
Secretary-General
and Head of
(MINUSMA), Mr.
El-Ghassim
WANE, strongly
condemned
these attacks:
"this incident
is a sad
reminder of
the permanent
danger that
hangs over our
peacekeepers
and of the
sacrifices
made for peace
in Mali", he
stressed.
Mr. WANE paid
tribute to the
soldier who
died in the
performance of
his mission.
He also wished
a speedy and
full recovery
to the
injured, who
have been
evacuated and
are receiving
the necessary
care. He
offered his
deepest
condolences to
the Government
of the
deceased, to
his family and
comrades-in-arms.
Mr. WANE
reaffirmed
that today's
cowardly
attack only
strengthened
MINUSMA
determination
to support
Mali and its
people in
their quest
for peace and
stability."
At
the UN in New
York,
corrupt
Guterres
rather than
listen to
critics has them
roughed up and
banned. And where
is the court
for the UN,
when it kills
10,000 in
Haiti with
cholera, or,
right in
New York
City, roughs
up and bans
the Press, with no
hearing at
all?
Now on
October 4,
2021, a UNSC
statement by
SC President
for October
Kenya, which
has refused
Inner City Press'
September
request for
access, and
October 4
questions
about the overseas
accounts
of President Kenyatta and family
exposed in the
Pandora
Papers: "The
members of the
Security
Council
condemned in
the strongest
terms the
attack
perpetrated on
2 October 2021
against a
MINUSMA convoy
near Tessalit,
Kidal region,
which resulted
in one
peacekeeper
from Egypt
killed and
four others
injured.
The members of
the Security
Council
expressed
their deepest
condolences
and sympathy
to the family
of the victim,
as well as to
Egypt and to
MINUSMA. They
wished a
speedy and
full recovery
to the
peacekeepers
who were
injured. They
paid tribute
to the
peacekeepers
who risk their
lives.
The members of
the Security
Council called
on the
transitional
Government of
Mali to
swiftly
investigate
this attack
and bring the
perpetrators
to justice.
They
underlined
that attacks
targeting
peacekeepers
may constitute
war crimes
under
international
law. They
stressed that
involvement in
planning,
directing,
sponsoring or
conducting
attacks
against
MINUSMA
peacekeepers
constitutes a
basis for
sanctions
designations
pursuant to
United Nations
Security
Council
resolutions.
The members of
the Security
Council
reaffirmed
that terrorism
in all its
forms and
manifestations
constitutes
one of the
most serious
threats to
international
peace and
security." Talk
is cheap. Vlog
here
- and here.
This as
Inner City
Press, which
reports on Mali
and South
Sudan for example
is excluded
by the UN
Secretariat
from getting promised
answers - for
example to
this question
it posed:
"what is the
UN's response
to the
massacre" - UN
failure.
More
here.
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