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Amid Burma Coup, 2 Arrested In Bid to Kill PR to UN, Junta Slams USUN, Guterres Bans Press

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UN GATE, August 10 – 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?

Meanwhile India, president of the Security Council for August, has no meeting on Burma and Ambassador Tirumurti refused Inner City Press written questions, here.

On August 6 this: Criminal complaint on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here: the arrests of PHYO HEIN HTUT and YE HEIN ZAW for conspiracy to assault and make a violent attack upon Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations [Kyaw Moe Tun].  HTUT and ZAW were charged in two separate complaints...   Between at least in or about July 2021 through at least on or about August 5, 2021, HTUT and ZAW, citizens of Myanmar currently residing in New York, conspired to injure or kill Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the UN."

Inner City Press exclusively live tweeted Zaw's detention hearing, here, story here. Now, song / video here. But the UN of Guterres and Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse to answer any of Inner City Press' written questions - and when asked orally by another, Dujarric confirmed receipt of the Quinn Emanuel law firm's letter but said no change of status and so far no reply, video here.

   Linda Thomas Greenfield, to whom Inner City Press has written but who has yet to act on Guterres' ban of US-based Press, tweeted about the disrupted plot. And now the junta in Nya Pyi Taw has cited, yes, the UN's own rules and Vienna Convention to say any criticism of it is wrong, and ask again for extradition to face a charge with the death penalty. Watch this site.

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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