| In DR Congo 2 Indonesia
Troops Killed RIP UNSC Condoles UN Even As It
Refuses Qs on Rapes
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, June 23
– Faced with the Coronavirus
crisis that UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres at
first tried to cover up, as he
did the UN bribes of convicted
CEFC China
Energy, the UN Security
Council went dark the entire
week of March 16 to 20: no
meetings.
Then the
Security Council, presided
over by China that month,
restarted, sort of -- but only
in secret. There was to have
been an open meeting on March
23 about the Democratic
Republic of Congo, a country
the UN has been in for two
decades with little impact
except mounting and deserved
distrust from the Congolese.
Photo here
All that
week Inner City Press in
writing asked
Guterres and his home-bound
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
about the refusal of the
residents of Beni
to put up with a deployment of
the MONUSCO peacekeepers who
have failed so often, while
also
raping children and
young women, which Guterres
also covers
up.
Guterres did not
answer and Dujarric's response
to to block
Inner City Press on WhatsApp,
through which he said he would
answer questions from his
penthouse apartment on
Manhattan's Upper East Side
right near Gracie Mansion.
Now the
Mission, not Dujarric who has
been outed
as taking his cue for an
alleged war criminal - no that
one, but Palitha Kohona,
but from MONUSCO, new of an
"an attack carried out last
night by suspected ADF
elements against a Mission
patrol in Makisabo, near Beni,
in North Kivu, in which an
Indonesian blue helmet was
killed and another injured."
Rest in
Peace, while for the sake of
Congolese noting that for the
UN to withhold information
about their allegations of
sexual abuse by peacekeepers
in shameful, and presumably
not unrelated.
Hours
after Inner City Press
reported the above, this from
the UN Security Council: "The
members of the Security
Council strongly condemned the
attack on the United Nations
Organization Stabilization
Mission in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)
that occurred on June 22 near
Beni (North Kivu), which
resulted in the death of one
Indonesian peacekeeper and
injured
another. The
members of the Security
Council expressed their
deepest condolences to the
family of the victim, the
Indonesian authorities and the
United Nations. They wished a
speedy recovery to the
injured." We wish that too.
But the UN must perform
better, including stopping
censoring Press.
China
finally set the DR Congo
meeting for March 24 -
virtual, which might be fine,
except that it has been
shifted from an open meeting
to be shown on UNTV where
Congolese could see it to an
informal meeting not even
listed on China's program of
work. Photo here.
This is corrupt
and untransparent, like
Guterres. And it comes after
Guterres gave the UN's Great
Lakes envoy post to Chinese
operative Huang Xia.
Just as CEFC
China Energy used Guterres' UN
to pay bribes to President of
the General Assembly Sam
Kutesa for oil and bank deals
in Uganda, and brought a box
of cash and offered weapons to
Chad's Idriss Deby for an oil
concession, China's deals in
the DRC have now been taken
private with the complicity of
other UNSC members.
This is
Guterres UN - a place of
corruption and censorship of
Press, from which Dujarric,
Guterres and Melissa Fleming
have banned
Inner City Press now 721 days.
Even as we
cover the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York in which CEFC's
Patrick Ho was convicted, we
will not rest. Watch this site
- but not, apparently, UNTV
except for Dujarric's social
club of censorship "noon
briefings."
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