| Amid Cameroon Child Death Inner City
Press Asks UN If On CAAC List Mid Year Q
Blocked
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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COURT, April 20 – With the
Cameroon government's report
on the killing of over 20
civilians including 13
children in Ngarbuh, promised
on March 1 by Paul Biya who
then disappeared amid COVID-19
nowhere to be seen, on April
20 Inner City Press asked
Watchlist for Children and
Armed Conflict about Cameroon.
Watchlist
to its credit is calling on UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres to belated include
the slaughter in Cameroon in
his upcoming report to the UN
Security Council on Children
and Armed Conflict.
But
Guterres, who earlier traveled
to Yaounde and took a golden
statue from Biya, then by that
government's own notes advised
them on how to discourage
press coverage of its abuses,
has mostly recently claimed
credit for a ceasefire in
Cameroon that most there say
does not exist.
Inner City
Press asked Watchlist to
evaluate Guterres' performance
on Cameroon. The
response, by two of the online
press conference's panelists,
was that it would be "highly
problematic" if Guterres does
not include Cameroon in his
report.
But when
Inner City Press submitted a
written question about the
briefing, the CAAC report and
Cameroon, Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric did not even
acknowledge much less answer
it, and Guterres and at least
10 other UN officials appeared
to block receipt of the
question, as Dujarric and his
screener have blocked Inner
City Press on WhatsApp.
Dujarric
offered a typically vague
non-answer on the report: on
"Children and Armed Conflict,
the Secretary‑General's own
report is expected midyear,
and we have no comment at this
point on the shadow report
that was issued."
This is an issue
Inner City Press will be
following up on. Watch this
site.
* * *
The
Watchlist press conference,
and getting the Cameroon
question in as one of four,
was appreciated. We note that
the meta-moderators from HRW
insisted that priority would
be given to members of the UN
Correspondents Association.
But only three of them had
questions and UNCA did nothing
when Guterres had Inner City
Press thrown
out of the UN on 3 July
2018 and banned since, amid
its questions on Cameroon
and other conflicts. We'll
have more on this as well.
Watch this site on that as
well.
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