The Whistle Blower
I’ve just received the final edit of my albeit short article on possible recriminations against Bruce Tasker by the World Bank in Yerevan after the British national was part of a special parliamentary commission which uncovered alleged corruption and mismanagement in the international banking organization’s operations in Armenia.
I’ve covered some of those allegations on this blog, and the 450 word piece will be published in the November edition of New Internationalist.
There is also the possibility that another longer article might appear in another U.K.-based publication, but until then, Tasker is documenting the story so far on his own blog, Blowing the World Bank Whistle.
Incidentally, the site is now also available in Armenian.
Incidentally, I’ve had a long working relationship with New Internationalist since 1997 when I had some photos of the Kurds in Turkey published by Oneworld.net and New Internationalist approached me for a photo story.
Since then, New Internationalist occasionally publish other stuff from me such as the following:
Since then I’ve also become the Country Editor for Armenia at Oneworld.net:
Comment by Onnik — September 20, 2007 @ 2:04 am
Onnik,
Thanks to your support to this effort, and with important World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings coming up in Washington 20 - 22 October, interest from the international media is growing.
This is a link to the latest ifiWatchNet article, which follows the recent Volcker report on the Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity:
http://www.ifiwatchnet.org/?q=en/node/3363
ifiWatchNet associates include more than 50 of the major international human rights and freedom of speech organizations.
Comment by Bruce Tasker — September 20, 2007 @ 6:19 am
World Bank Puts Armenian Case on Hold
After first being covered in the blogosphere, Bruce Tasker’s allegations of corruption in a World Bank project in Armenia have now hit international headlines with the U.K.’s The Observer carrying a story today. Interestingly, Tasker appro…
Trackback by Oneworld Multimedia — September 30, 2007 @ 10:50 pm