That's it. At
the July 15 UN
noon briefing
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's deputy
spokesperson
to respond to
protest signs
in Haiti:
"Dead: 8563,
Sick 704,000;
Justice 0."
Haq said Ban
assures
Haitians of
his personal
commitment,
wants to be
the advocate
of the Haitian
people.
Inner City
Press asked,
will the UN
apologize? (Video here and embedded
below. Here's an
Inner City
Press song on
topic.)
Haq replied
that Ban is
"anguished"
about the
situation.
But is that an
apology?
Haq said he
had nothing to
add. Where he
gave the next
question, he
got back a
softball which
invited him to
talk about
money Ban's UN
gave, or
raied, or
merely tried
to raise.
Each time Ban
mentioned
cholera,
without once
addressing who
brought it to
Hispanola.
While an Inner
City Press
reader points
out the troop
contributing
country,
Nepal, the
question is:
wasn't the UN
in charge of
sanitation?
Doesn't UN
Peacekeeping
under Herve
Ladsous still
refuse to
screen
peacekeepers
before
deployment
from cholera
hot-spots?
Didn't the UN
dissemble
about the
failure to
take this
safeguard?
Ban ended
his first speech
saying "you
can count on
me and the UN
to do our
part." Really?
After meeting
a family
impacted by
(the UN's)
cholera, Ban
said "the
whole
international
community,
including the
United
Nations, has a
moral duty to
help those
people to stem
the further
spread of
cholera." Just
"including"
the UN. Just
because.
In what the UN
called a
"press
encounter,"
without
providing any
Q&A, Ban
said "Lastly,
in addressing
all
socio-economic
issues as well
as cholera
issues, let me
also underline
that this is
not a time for
donor
fatigue."
Is that it?
A question is
whether Ban
while there be
served with
legal papers
about the UN
bringing
cholera to
Hispanola,
another topic
on which Ban's
spokespeople
dodged and
worse.
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