| UN Rights Official Andrew
Gilmour Tiptoes Around Uighurs After Complicit
in Guterres Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Dec 28 – Even
when leaving the UN and
retiring, its supposed human
rights officials hold their
tongues about the abuses by
China, from Xinjiang to Hong
Kong to Tibet.
The most
recent example is Andrew
Gilmour, who as UN Human
Rights representative in New
York did nothing when UNSG
Antonio Guterres had Inner
City Press roughed up and
banned from entering to ask
questions, now 543
days.
Gilmour
told Inner City Press, out on
the sidewalk in front of the
UN, that he was sorry for what
had happened - as if he had no
power to do anything about it,
and was not in fact complicit.
If a "senior human rights
officials of the UN," as AP
calls him, cannot do anything
about violent censorship by
the UN inside its own
headquarters in New York, what
good is
he? He
is only a quote-box, and not
even that.
From AP:
"'I never thought that we
would start hearing the terms
"concentration camps" again,''
Gilmour told The Associated
Press in an exclusive
interview. 'And yet, in two
countries of the world there's
a real question.'' He
didn't name them but appeared
to be referring to China's
internment camps in western
Xinjiang province, where an
estimated 1 million members of
the country's predominantly
Muslim Uighur minority are
being held; and detention
centers on the United States'
southern border, where mostly
Central American migrants are
being held while waiting to
apply for asylum."
So while
banned Inner City Press' human
rights questions remain
UNanswered, Gilmour gave an
"exclusive" interview in which
he coyly referred to
concentration camps, letting
China off the hook and
allowing a dubious
equivalence. And people still
rightly deride the US for
dancing around the "G word"
with regard to Rwanda in 1994.
The UN's outgoing human rights
official, complicit in
Guterres' censorship for
himself and China, can't even
say the word Uighur. We'll
have more on this, and on the
others still in the pay of
Guterres -- with the public's
money -- and still inactive
and complicit.
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