| On Sri Lanka
War Crimes Singapore Is Asked To Prosecute
Gotabaya, UN Guterres Aided
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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July 23 – Amid the momentous
events in Sri Lanka, the
silence and complicity of the
UN of Antonio Guterres with
the Rajapaksas was for days
noted.
Guterres
has palled around with
Gotabaya. Even when Inner City
Press, which reported from
inside Sri Lanka in connection
with the Bloodbath on the
Beach formally informed the UN
that it was using as
"peacekeepers" soldiers who
engaged in summary execution
of Tamils in 2008-09, his UN
continued to use them.
Now
Singapore to which Gotabaya
Rajapaka fled without seeking
to obtaining asylum has been
asked by ITJP to prosecute him
for war crimes, under
universal jurisdiction. Again,
the UN is silent. It is
conflicted: Secretary General
Antonio Guterres by the same
logic should also be
prosecuted, as on the Uighurs
in China and Anglophones in
Cameroon, for
aiding and
abetting
including
through
censorship to
cover up.
For
Guterres it's been more than a
lack of standards in accepting
soldiers as peacekeepers, and
paying autocrats for their
use. The Rajapaksas, Mahinda
and Gotabaya, largely sold the
country to China, for their
own benefit. Guterres has his
own links to China - financial
links to convicted UN briber
CEFC China Energy Guterres
omitted from his financial
disclosures, and Chinese
support for his first and
second terms as UNSG. And so,
silence as Gotabaya flees, and
documents of war crimes are
shredded, burned and
disappeared. This is today's
UN.
On the morning of
July 11, banned
Inner City Press in writing
asked Guterres and his
spokespeople including Melissa
Fleming, Stephane
Dujarric and Farhan Haq, and
UN Peacekeeping's Jean Pierre
Lacroix spokespeople
mold2 at un.org, "Aditya Mehta
[UNHQ] at un.org,
hector.calderon at un.org and
coutrix at un.org:
"On Sri Lanka,
given the video of civilians
being shot out over the
weekend, what safeguards are
in place for UN Peacekeeping
to not continue to use forces
from Sri Lanka (and elsewhere)
engage in human rights
abuses?"
No answer, just a
canned statement: "The
Secretary-General continues to
follow developments in Sri
Lanka closely. He stands in
solidarity with the Sri Lankan
people and calls on all
stakeholders to engage in
dialogue to ensure a smooth
transition of government and
to find sustainable solutions
to the economic
crisis.
The Secretary-General condemns
all acts of violence and calls
for those responsible to be
held accountable."
Accountable? The UN pays war
criminals, and is itself not
accountable - nor is its UN
Censorship Alliance, see here
on Sri Lanka. We will have
more on this.
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