Q&A w/ HRW: Antonio Guterres Weaker on Human Rights Than UN Ban, HRW's Roth Answers Inner City Press
Questions about Cameroon and Honduras, just two of Guterres' failures, weren't answered but will continue to be asked - #No2dTerm, #DumpGuterres
By Matthew Russell Lee, PatreonSong IQ&A
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
UN GATE, Jan 13 – Antonio Guterres' four years as UN Secretary General have consisted of diplomatic failures, on Cameroon, Honduras and elsewhere, cover-ups of UN sexual abuse and UN bribers, including his own connections with convicted briber CEFC China Energy, and banning of the Press that asked.
On January 13, Inner City Press asked Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth questions, including "how a second Guterres term would be at all acceptable in real human rights terms."
That part of the question was read out, albeit it shorter - and Roth said among other things that Guterres has been even weaker on human rights than was Ban Ki-moon (and that's saying a lot). Video here.
But for Christmas 2020, violating what the public is told to do with the UN's WHO and by Joe Biden, among others, Guterres has traveled on vacation to Portugal (and, it's been said, then to the UK). He is a hypocrite.
Why did Guterres thumb his nose as his own organization's directives and travel to Portugal?
Was it meet up with his son Pedro, whose African business deals like a meeting with Rwanda Paul Kagame Guterres has refused to disclose or explain, when banned Inner City Press asked?
Well, with Guterres in Lisbon, that city's and his organ of choice Expresso has begun Guterres' campaign for an entirely unmerited second term as SG, with Helder Gomes writing (or reciting, dictated by Guterres) that "the former Portuguese prime minister will fulfill the next 12 months with the promised US return to multilateralism. For now, Guterres maintains the taboo, but has already indicated that he still has a lot to do."
More bribes to take? More civilians to sell out, as he has the Anglophones of Cameroon?
If the UN is to retain or even regain any of its credibility, there can be no second term. And groups like HRW should actually work on that, and to end UN's censorship of Press. Just say no to Guterres. Song I here. Watch this site.
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