| After Haiti
President Moises Is Killed, UNSC Ignores
Failed UN Mission, Cholera Impunity
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 7 – In Haiti, hold-over
president Jovenel Moises has
been assassinated. The
Dominican Republic has ordered
its border with the country
closed.
In the
United Nations, which ran a
large "peacekeeping" mission
in Haiti which beyond failing
brought in cholera and killed
10,000 Haitians, while
refusing to compensate any of
the impoverished families who
lost their bread-winners,
there are sure to be belated
statements of
concern.
There will
be a "private" meeting of the
UN Security Council, whose
trip to Haiti Inner City Press
covered, here,
and here,
before being
banned from the UN and
its briefings by Secretary
General Antonio Guterres.
And late on July
7 from the UNSC, this: "The
members of the Security
Council condemned in the
strongest terms the
assassination of the President
of Haiti Jovenel Moïse. They
expressed their condolences to
his family and to the Haitian
people and called for the
perpetrators of this abhorrent
crime to be swiftly brought to
justice.
The members of the Security
Council made an emphatic call
on all political stakeholders
in Haiti to refrain from any
acts of violence and any
incitement to violence. The
members of the Security
Council called on all parties
to remain calm, exercise
restraint and to avoid any act
that could contribute to
further instability, and
expressed their steadfast
support for
dialogue.
The members of the Security
Council affirmed their
determination to monitor the
ongoing situation in Haiti and
reiterated the essential need
to respect the rule of law and
to ensure the security of all
people and UN operations. The
members of the Security
Council expressed their
continued solidarity with the
people of Haiti." Continued
solidarity? When the UNSC did
nothing for the 10,000 killed
by the cholera the UN brought?
Most
recently, Guterres'
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Farhan Haq have refused to
answer Inner City Press'
written questions about new
cases of UN sexual abuse in
Haiti, here.
But talk is
cheap. Watch this site.
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