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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Dec 30 – As inside the increasingly marginal United Nations a process begins to select a successor to Antonio Guterres who banned Inner City Press from the UN as it reported on his links with briber CEFC China Energy and to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, it is time to review the history. Part 14:
It was bad enough that Guterres essentially stole the 2016 SG election, refusing to disclose who funded him and what deals were made. What kind of second-in-comment does an unaccountable leader chose?
By November 2017 Inner City Press was asking about Guterres’ Deputy SG Amina J. Mohammed, embroiled in a scandal about having signed off - all night long - on the export to China of illegally harvested rosewood, including some “smuggled from Cameroon.”
On November 14, 2017 for the second day in a row, Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric about what Amina Mohammed knew, and when, and he again refused to answer. A group launched a petition to get Guterres to investigate Mohammed. Inner City Press asked Dujarric about it. He said the UN received petitions all the time.
Once when Sri Lankan Tamil tried to get a petition into the UN, they gave it to Inner City Press. The UN’s response was that if Inner City Press reported on it, the petition was be thrown in the garbage. It probably was, anyway. For its troubles, Inner City Press was characterized by some high in UNCA, the UN Censorship Alliance, as a “white tiger” - that is, a terrorist.
When Inner City Press started getting threats including death threats from some in Sri Lanka, UNCA disclaimed any responsibility. They did the Secretary General’s work, then faded into the background.
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[Rosewood? What rosewood?]
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