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Dismissing Genocide on Uighurs Follows His
Work For Murderous Sri Lanka Gov
By
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE / SDNY,
Jan 19 –
NBA owner and Sri Lankans
government tech "ambassador"
Chamath Palihapitiya has said
something often heard within
the United Nations under SG
Antonio Guterres,
dismissively: "Nobody cares
about what's happening to the
Uyghurs."
Since Palihapitiya is a
billionaire, beyond his
ownership interest in the
Golden State Warriors, and the
NBA has billions on the line,
not surprisingly there has
been spin since.
This
has included focusing on
Palihapitiya's family being
UN-accredited (or blue-washed)
refugees from Sri Lanka, a
country which has seen a
genocide or mass-killing
directed at the Tamil
minority.
The
implication is, how could a
refugee from Sri Lanka be
accused of genocide denial?
Well...
Even
cursory research find
Palihapitiya's lineage to be
Sinhalese, that of the
Rajapaksa brother who with the
UN's support and collusion
slaughtered tens of thousands
of Tamils.
And is it not
just lineage. Tellingly,
Palihapitiya agreed to be the
"ICT Ambassador" to Silicon
Valley of the Rajapaksa
book-ended government of
Maithripala Sirisena:
"Chamath
Palihapitiya, a Sri
Lankan-born businessman and
investor in Silicon Valley,
has been appointed as Sri
Lanka’s ICT ambassador by
President Maithripala Sirisena
to promote Sri Lanka in
Silicon Valley as well as to
provide the necessary support
to bring down the latest
technology from Silicon Valley
to Sri Lanka."
This
gushing report is from a
pro-government Sri Lankan
media which carried threats
against Inner City Press when
it questioned genocide denial
by the UN and its
Correspondents Association,
giving a screening to the
"Lies Agreed To" film at the
request of another Sri Lankan
ambassador accused of war
crimes, who paid the
Correspondents Association
president money then worked
together to get Inner City
Press thrown out of the UN.
Now in
2022, with genocide- (and
trafficking-) linked Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
banning Inner City Press from
any entry of the UN and
refusing any answer to written
questions or a pro bono law
firm letter seeking an end to
censorship, Sri Lanka's
government is denying what's
happening to the Uighurs while
seeking economic concession
from the China government.
How
extensive is the Chinese
government's domination of the
United Nations?
A recently
published
novella, "Belt and
Roadkill," raises these
questions.
The corruption of
the UN, its documented
domination by China as
evidenced by two recent
real-world bribery
prosecutions in the U.S.
District Court of the Southern
District of New York, are the
soil or message of the text.
But the meta questions about
what is a novel(la) is raised
by its form and length. (It is
available, first on Kindle, here).
Earlier this
month Parul Sehgal in The New
Yorker bemoaned the
democratization of literature,
or content, by Amazon and
Kindle Direct Publishing. But
who are the gatekeepers? Who
should they be?
The author of
Belt and Roadkill, years ago,
was on the threshold of elite
/ elitist publishing, summoned
to a venerable firm on Union
Square in Manhattan and told
that if only the actual names
of Citigroup's predatory
lenders could be dropped, it
might be possible to move
forward.
But aren't public
figures open to satire,
without danger of libel
lawsuits?
Aren't those
Predatory Benders who
foreclose on thousands of
homes just targets, like those
at the UN who cover up
hundreds of rapes by
peacekeepers, and ten thousand
Haitians killed by cholera, as
only two examples?
Belt and
Roadkill does not mention
Haiti, even once. It does,
however, name-check Cameroon
and Western Sahara, Huawei and
the January 6, 2021
insurrection, breach or
protest, whatever your
politics.
Let a
hundred flowers bloom, as Mao
said before moving to cut them
down. There will be
more.
[Belt and Roadkill: A Story of
Dis-United Nations, by Matthew Russell
Lee, Inner City Press is on Kindle,
and paperback here.]
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