| UN Guterres
Bluewashes Sri Lanka Mass
Killing as Shown in UN Betrayals
Next SG Book
NEW YORK,
June 27 รข€“ As the UN moves in
2026 to pick a new Secretary
General, as its last one
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, a new book has
been published. It is "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting). A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026. Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau. The main
text addresses UN failures in
Sri Lanka - including the UNCA
connection - Cameroon, Western
Sahara, Syria, North Korea,
Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN
Betrayals indeed. On Sri Lanka,
Inner City Press on June 26,
2026 asked Guterres, Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming:
"On Haiti and Sri Lanka
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
and separately USUN/ PR Waltz
on the calls on the United
Nations, the Government of
Haiti, and the Gang
Suppression Force (GSF)
Standing Committee to
immediately suspend the
planned deployment of
reportedly 900 Sri Lankan
soldiers and 140 police
officers to Haiti, scheduled
to proceed imminently, pending
the establishment of an
independent credible vetting
and screening mechanism."
While credible and UN are
oxymorons at this point, two
days later and counting, no
answer from the UN at all. And
no, no one they let in asked
the question. Guterres has
nearly entirely killed the
UN's credibility. And the
NextSG? Watch this site.
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