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After Burma Coup UN Guterres Covers Up His Sell Out of Rohingya as UNSC Censored By UK

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY / UN GATE, Feb 3 – The United States, responding to the coup in Burma, is reviewing all of its programs that benefit the Burmese military.

This was said on an embargoed US State Department press conference on February 2, at the same time that the UN Security Council was hold a closed meeting about Myanmar.

  Now on February 3, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres his trying to cover up his history of siding with the oppressors of the Rohingya, like his support for the killing of Anglophones in Cameroon.

  Guterres lied, as amplified by Reuters: “We will do everything we can to mobilize all the key actors and international community to put enough pressure on Myanmar to make sure that this coup fails... Aung San Suu Kyi - if we can accuse her of something - is that she was too close to the military, is that she protected too much the military, namely in relation to what has happened with the dramatic offensive of the military army against the Rohingyas." But Guterres supposed all of it. And Reuters ran: "“We’re continuing discussions on the council’s next steps on Myanmar and council colleagues have agreed that it’s important for us to speak with one voice on the issue,” British U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward, the current president of the council, told reporters on Wednesday."  Which reporters? When Woodward banned the Press from her press conference, while taking pre-arranged questions from state media and retirees? 

    The United Kingdom as President of the UNSC for February did not even push to have the Tuesday meeting be open, and UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward on February 1 banned the Press - which was given access to Tuesday's background briefing - from her UN "press" conference (at which not a single question on Africa, for example, was taken).

  Here was and is Inner City Press' question to the UK, as UNSC President: ""on deadline, for UK's response to current developments in Myanmar / Burma. Please confirm receipt." This was sent on January 31 to PR Barbara Woodward, Jaclyn Licht, Sorcha Lowry and Isabella Olex; no answer from them or "spokesman" Mungo Woodifield.

Later at the February 2 US State Department briefing, Spokesman Ned Price said, "When it comes to Burma, look, I don’t think the military takeover, the military coup, is in the interest – it’s certainly not in our interest.  It’s certainly not in the interest of our likeminded partners.  I think you will also find that it’s not in the interest of the Chinese.  So our first concern, of course, is the restoration of civilian leadership in Burma.  Our concern, consistent with that, is ensuring that as we undertake this review, now that we have determined that a coup has taken place on February 1st, the civilian-led government has been deposed by the military – our first concern as we do that review will be to ensure that of the $135 million we contribute annually to the people of Burma, that we don’t do anything that would affect the long-suffering people of Burma, including the Rohingya in this case." Inner City Press will have more on this.

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