New U.N.
chief abandoned Mideast Christians to ISIS, Former
top refugee official now secretary general – 'he bears 99.9%' of blame by Leo
Hohmann, 10/8/16
Antonio
Guterres, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has now
been promoted to the top post at the U.N., replacing Ban Ki-moon as secretary
general. His is also former head of the Socialist International.
As tens
of thousands of young, healthy Muslim men stormed the gates of Europe in the
fall of 2015, touching off a migrant crisis financed and encouraged by
billionaire globalists like George Soros, then-United Nations refugee czar
Antonio Guterres “demanded” that the E.U. nations open their borders and
“welcome” the migrants.
He said
Europe “must accept up to 200,000 refugees” as part of a “common strategy” to
replace their “piecemeal” approach to the migrant crisis, the BBC reported.
Guterres,
who headed of the U.N. refugee agency, said the E.U. must mobilize “full force”
for the crisis, calling it a “defining moment.”
As it
turned out, the 200,000 was just a small down payment on what the U.N. high
commissioner for refugees had in mind for Europe. Nearly 2 million “refugees”
would eventually come — almost none of them from the persecuted Christian
communities in Syria.
The same
trend occurred in the United States, which took in 12,587 U.N.-selected Syrian
refugees in fiscal 2016, and only 0.5 percent were Christian. Most of them were
selected by Guterres, who served 10 years as high commissioner for refugees up
till Dec. 31.
And the
outcome was every bit of the “defining moment” that Guterres predicted, but not
in a good way. What unfolded was horrific terrorist acts by two Syrian refugees
involved in the Paris and Brussels attacks, a mass knifing by a 17-year-old
Afghan refugee on a train in southern Germany, and an epidemic of sexual
assaults by Muslim migrants in Germany, Austria, France and Sweden.
Now
Guterres, 67, has been rewarded for his good work by the same globalists who
hold sway at the United Nations. He was promoted this week to the U.N.’s
highest post, secretary general, replacing Ban Ki-moon.
So
exactly who is Antonio Guterres? He started climbing the ladder to international
politics as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 as leader of that
country’s Socialist Party.
He
started out wildly popular but ended up resigning in disgrace in 2002 after his
party suffered a humiliating defeat related to the nation’s failing economy.
After
being run out politics in his country of Portugal Guterres found a new home as
president of the Socialist International, a global network of national
socialist parties seeking to establish “democratic socialism” around the globe.
The Socialist
International was formed after World War II, and helped fund socialist
movements in Spain and Portugal. In the late 1980s, the SI funded
the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. He stayed at Socialist International until
2005, when he joined the U.N.
He is
perhaps most famous for presiding over the worst refugee crisis since World War
II. All told, some 2 million migrants have poured into Western Europe over the
last two years, forever transforming whole villages, towns and cities in Italy,
Greece, France and especially Germany.
The
migrant invasion was sold as a humanitarian catastrophe driven by the Syrian
civil war, when in actuality less than 50 percent of the migrants were from
Syria. While there were some true war refugees, most were economic migrants
seeking to make it to the wealthy welfare state of Germany where Chancellor
Angela Merkel had offered an open invitation.
All the
while, the most severe victims of persecution and genocide, the Middle Eastern
Christians, were left to deal with ISIS on their own.
Nina
Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, in an op-ed
for the Wall Street Journal Thursday, laid much of the blame for this abandonment of
Middle Eastern Christians at the feet of Guterres.
In an
interview with WND, she said Guterres bears “99.9 percent” of the blame for the
abandonment of Middle East Christians.
Not only
are the persecuted Christians not being resettled in the West, very little aid
is getting to them, said Shea.
“I just
got an email from an Armenian Protestant church in Aleppo, and they had photos
of all the churches receiving a shipment of humanitarian aid this week from the
government of Armenia, which is this impoverished country,” Shea said. “Why
aren’t we doing this? Why aren’t we at least airlifting aid into Aleppo and other
cities where Christians are in desperate need?”
Aid
packages arrive for Christians holed up in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday, Oct. 7,
2016.. The aid was sent by the Armenian government. Photo courtesy St.
Mary’s Apostolic Church in Aleppo, Syria.
Shea said
she has first-hand information from sources on the ground who report the U.S.
and the U.N. have delivered scarcely any aid to the Christian communities in
Syria. The only thing received were some initial supplies of tents and tarps
delivered in August 2014.
“So they
haven’t gotten any aid form the U.S. but this little country of Armenia is able
to get aid into Aleppo,” Shea told WND. “We should be doing that.”
Shea said
most of the responsibility for the failures of the U.N. to rescue Christians
from what has officially been deemed a genocide falls to Guterres.
“I think
he bears 99.9 percent of it because he was director of that office for 10 years
until December and this is a longstanding problem. It’s the worst period of
persecution at least in this century,” she said. “Throughout the Middle East,
the minorities, especially the Christians, cannot take shelter in the U.N.
camps because they’re not hospitable to Christians, they’re so poorly policed
and the U.N. just doesn’t care.”
Members
of St. Mary’s Apostolic Church in Aleppo, Syria, were overjoyed to receive aid
from Armenia, a small, poor country that is doing more for the Christians of
Aleppo than the U.S. or the U.N.
‘Rampant
mismanagement’ of U.N. aid to refugees
The
U.N.’s own internal audits provide a devastating indictment of mismanagement
within the refugee agency headed by Guterres.
As Fox
News reported in June, the audit revealed that the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees office “handed
over hundreds of millions to partners without monitoring” what the money was
used for. The audit found vast over-payments to private organizations with
little to no oversight over how the money was actually spent or whether the
contractors were qualified to carry out the required task.
“They did
a sampling of the field offices in 16 countries and found rampant
mismanagement, where they didn’t’ do the required paperwork and made no attempt
to trace moneys misspent, and the audit also condemned the top management and
that’s his doing,” Shea said. “That’s what he is in charge of.”
Yet even with
this official stain on his resume, Guterres was able to outmaneuver nine other
candidates for the top job at the U.N., replacing Ban Ki-moon as secretary
general. The U.N. General Assembly approved his appointment Wednesday.
Weeks
before he stepped down from his post at the UNHCR in December, Shea approached
Guterres at a conference in Washington and questioned him about the troublesome
lack of Mideast Christians being resettled in the West. “He seemed relatively
unconcerned for a group that had been officially designated as victims of a
genocide,” she said.
James
Simpson, a researcher and writer affiliated with the Center for Security
policy, was also at the same conference, put on by the Migration Policy
Institute’s annual immigration law conference at Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C., last October.
“I asked
him about the Christians. I said that virtually all of the Syrians being
resettled in the West are Sunni Muslims and the U.N. was sending us almost no
Christians and why is that?” Simpson recalls.
The
answer he got from Guterres was that the Syrian Christians were not being
oppressed by the Assad government as the Sunnis were.
“In a
sense that is true, because the Christians aren’t rebelling like the Sunni
Muslims, who were rebelling to the point where Assad sent in the Air Force to
obliterate Homs. The Sunni majority in Syria was giving him trouble for years,
so that made sense, and I have since heard from other people that Christians
who are displaced, they don’t go to the U.N. camps.”
Several
other sources, including the Catholic Aid to the Church in Need, have told WND
that the primary reason Christians avoid the U.N. camps is that they are
considered highly unsafe for anyone who is not a Muslim. This, again, is a
problem that befell the U.N. refugee agency under Guterres’s watch.
His
connections and his interests have always been more on the Muslim side, say
observers.
“I
remember him saying that yes a lot of the Syrian Christians don’t feel
threatened by the government but he didn’t mention at all how they feel
threaten by ISIS, which is cutting their heads off,” Simpson said. “And the
[Obama] administration has finally acknowledged after years that what is
happening in Syria and Iraq is a genocide, though still not doing anything to
stop it, and the UNCHR certainly didn’t do a thing. He admitted he wasn’t doing
enough and needed to do more, but he never did.”
As Shea
reported in the WSJ, persecuted Christians also found no help from the
U.N.-established Independent
Commission of Inquiry on Syria in its only report on ISIS genocide.
That report focused solely on
persecute Yazidis. The commission — an influential adviser to the UNHCR –
dismissed in a short paragraph the notion that Christians also have been
targeted for genocide.
“Echoing
ISIS propaganda and without citing evidence, the commission report declared
that ISIS recognizes their ‘right to exist as Christians . . . as long as they
pay the [Islamic] jizya tax,'” Shea reports.
This is
not true, according to the Patriarch Younan and the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch
Aphrem, who told Shea in August that no intact Christian communities or
functioning churches remain in the parts of Syria or Iraq under ISIS.
“Genocide
is the most heinous human-rights violation. For America to entrust the survival
of communities on the brink of extinction to a U.N. operation that routinely
fails them is the height of cynicism.
“The
administration should ensure that American aid reaches these displaced
minorities, including refugee visas for the neediest.”
Shea said
Congress can make sure that happens by quickly bringing to a vote the
bipartisan Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act, introduced
Sept. 8 by Reps. Chris Smith (R., N.J.) and Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.).
As for
the U.N., if its new secretary general runs the global body the way he ran its
refugee agency, critics say we should expect only more mismanagement and
cavalier attitudes toward the historic genocide in progress.
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