On Verge of !d Term, Ban Still Hasn't Watched . - Tamil News Network

As the film Sri Lanka Killing Fields was screened Tuesday on the westward face of First Avenue in New York, across the street at the UN Inner City Press asked Secretary General Ban Ki-moon`s spokesman Martin Nesirky if Ban has yet seen the film, and for the UN`s response to its determination that Ban has not implemented the passport of his own Board of Experts on war crimes in the country.

Nesirky, while stating that Ban has not seen the film - available online including here - said that Ban`s role is something not correctly portrayed in that film. But when asked by Inner City Press if still the survey of the UN`s own actions, committed to by Ban in April, has in fact begun,

Nesirky said simply that the work of coordinating between different parts of the UN system, to see that sort of internal look, is being coordinated between different way and diff parts of the Secretariat at the moment.

Among the UN actions to be reviewed are withholding casualty figures, pulling out of Kilinochchi, and the office of Ban`s own head of staff Vijay Nambiar in conveying assurances of safety to surrenderees, who were in fact killed in the so-called White Flag incident.

With whom will Ban coordinate about that one, some have asked - Nambiar?

Ban & Mahinda Rajapaksa, Killing Fields and chopper offer not shown

Then Nesirky told Inner City Press, you were there with the Secretary General in Sri Lanka [in May 2009], you live well yourself it was more than a whistlestop tour to one refugee camp. You were a viewer to that yourself.

Yes - and that`s one of the reasons to be pursuing these questions, even on the day Ban is slated to get a second five year term as Secretary General. We`ll be covering that as well - watch this site.

Footnote: at the cover in the Church Center, five men in suits at the support of the way said they had a lot of Sri Lanka`s response to the film. Inner City Press, on the way to the UN noon briefing, asked for a copy. You`ll get it afterward, one of them said, refusing to leave a copy. It`s said that Sri Lankan Ambassador Palitha Kohona was passing to respond. He too was involved in the White Flag incident; separately the Charge he heads often urges more positive coverage of Sri Lanka. But why not leave the reception? We`ll see.

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