On
Haiti, Ban Claimed $100+ Million
But It's Only $1 Million from S
Korea, Blood Money
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
January 9 – The UN brought
cholera to Haiti in 2010 and
killed over 10,000 people and
counting. Ban Ki-moon, a mere
month before he left being UN
Secretary General on December
31, issued an eleventh hour
apology and claimed to be
raising over $100 million.
On
January 9, Inner City Press
Ban's holdover spokesman
Stephane Dujarric how much as,
in fact, been raised. Dujarric
said $1 million from Ban's
native South Korea - call it
blood money -- and a few
hundred thousand from France.
That's it. Shameful.
Meanwhile
on a report that the UN is
investigating the Indian
peacekeepers deployed in Haiti
for not having cholera
vaccination, spokesman
Dujarric told Inner City Press
that he is looking into the
report. Looking into whether
the UN is in fact
investigating? This is a new
low in obfuscation.
Many
see Ban's late apology as
meant to take one of the
negative issues off his table
as he runs for president of
South Korea. Other issues
include nepotism - promoting
his own son in law Siddharth
Chatterjee to the top UN job
in Kenya - and lack of any
accountability for rapes by
peacekeepers under his watch.
There is also
dropping Saudi Arabia from the
Children and Armed Conflict
annex for killing children in
Yemen. The list goes on. Watch
this site.
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