By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 17 -- When
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon spoke
to
students
Thursday
evening it
should have
been easy.
They were
predisposed to
like him, and
he took only
three
questions.
But still
he answered
the first
question about
Syria by
referring to
observers
in the city of
"Hamas" -- and
then the UN
airbrushed it
in
its
transcript.
Next,
Ban tried
to rally the
new generation
by saying "why
not" a female
Secretary
General. But
why, then, did
he replaced an
African female
Deputy S-G
with an old
man from
Sweden?
On
Ban's way to
the General
Assembly Hall
at 6 pm, Inner
City Press saw
and greeted
him, told him
the students
were waiting.
Once inside,
after Tim
Wirth
praised UN
Peacekeeping
on the same
day its fourth
French chief
in a
row Herve
Ladsous told
the Press "I don't
talk to you,"
demanded
censorship of
Press
articles, then
appeared on
France 24,
Ban spoke
movingly about
growing up in
Korea.
But
why then does
his UN not
only demand
censorship,
but also
falsify
transcripts?
Compare the
publicly
available
video of his
talk, at
Minute 41:25
when he
unmistakable
says "Hamas"
as one of six
cities in
Syria to which
observers have
been sent, to
the transcript
his
Spokesperson's
Office sent:
"We
will
try our best
to complete
the 300
[observer]
benchmark, as
authorized by
the Security
Council. They
are now being
deployed in
six different
cities,
starting from
Damascus, et
cetera,
where
violence has
taken place."
Ban
didn't
say "et
cetera," he
said "Hamas,"
just check the
video,
at Minute
41:25. If you
can't trust
the UN on
this, what can
you trust it
on?
And if Ban is
so exercised,
as he should
be, about
10,000 dead in
Syria, why
has he
done so little
about 40,000
killed in Sri
Lanka, and
even accepted
one of the
Generals
responsible,
Shavendra
Silva, as an
adviser on UN
peacekeeping
by saying it
was "decided
by member
states"?
Watch this
site.
