US
Power Cites
Internet
Abuse, No
Mention of
Snowden,
FDLR or Drones
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 10 --
When new US
Ambassador to
the UN
Samantha Power
gave a speech
Saturday night
in California
at an event of
the
Invisible
Children,
launchers of
#KONY2012, she
spoke of human
rights
and of
governments
abusing the
internet.
She
did not,
however, even
mention her
own
government's
surveillance
through the
National
Security
Agency, as exposed
by contractor
Edward
Snowden.
It would have
been easy to
mention it, to
an
enthusiastic
audience of
students
predisposed to
like Samantha
Power. But no.
Power
urged those in
the audience
to look into
the world's
problems, as
she
did with
ethnic
cleansing in
Bosnia. She
cited "Rwandan
mothers"
and later,
villagers in
the Democratic
Republic of
the Congo.
But
setting aside
the US' role
in pulling the
UN mission out
of Rwanda in
1994 -- Power
told the
Senate the US
has nothing to
apologize for
--
currently the
UN Mission in
the Congo
MONUSCO,
overseen by
the UN
Security
Council, is
supporting
Congolese Army
units which
have been
named as
arming the
genocidal FDLR
militia, and
the
391 Battalion,
US
trained, which
raped 135
women in
Minova.
Power
could have
said, the
world in
complicated,
the US didn't
do enough
during the
slaughter of
40,000
civilians in
Sri Lanka in
2009. But
she didn't.
Nor did she
mention that
among the US
drone strikes
in
Yemen and
Pakistan,
civilians and
children get
killed too.
Invisible
Children,
indeed. Watch
this site.
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