Bid at UN to Ban ICP Led by 5 Big Media, For France,Lanka, Ladsous
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 -- Hours after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous refused to answer Inner City Press' questions about charges that his Department introduced cholera into Haiti, and has Sri Lanka alleged war criminal general Shavendra Silva as an adviser, representatives of five media organizations presented charges to eject Inner City Press. Longer version here.
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 -- Hours after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous refused to answer Inner City Press' questions about charges that his Department introduced cholera into Haiti, and has Sri Lanka alleged war criminal general Shavendra Silva as an adviser, representatives of five media organizations presented charges to eject Inner City Press. Longer version here.
Video of Ladsous' refusal to answer is here, Minute 28:10.
The five signers of the charge letter to set up a "board of examination" to "investigate" Inner City Press with the goal of expelling it include not only Louis Charbonneau of Reuters and Timothy Witcher of Agence France Presse (as explained below, a major French Mission and Ladsous tool).
Now they've expanded to five, with Flavia Krause-Jackson of Bloomberg, Talal Al-Haj of Al-Arabia and Margaret Besheer of Voice of America.
During Tuesday afternoon's session, Bloomberg's Flavia Krause-Jackson told Inner City Press, We're not talkingabout giving evidence... we do not like your attitude.
