| Haiti Hit By
Earthquake, 300+ Killed, Echo of UN
Cholera, SG Guterres Still Silent Censor
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 14 – In Haiti, an
earthquake has hit and long
after, nothing from the UN
whose Sec-Gen Guterres was
away on an undisclosed
vacation. Previously, he has
asserted immunity for cholera,
and impunity for roughing up
and banning the Press that
asks.
The quake
occurred at about 8:30 a.m.
Saturday morning and several
aftershocks have followed.
Cities in the southern region
— including Les Cayes,
Jeremie, Saint Louis du Sud,
Aquin, Petit Trou de Nippes,
Anse-a-Veau and
Cavaillon — felt the
strongest vibrations,
according to eyewitnesses and
the United States Geological
Survey.
Now Immaculate
Conception Hospital in Les
Cayes issued a call for help
on Haitian radio station
Magik9, asking for assistance
from more doctors and nurses
to treat the injured. It is
reliably estimated that (well)
more than 300 people have been
killed. And still, at 7 pm in
New York on August 14, nothing
for Guterres. Corrupt censor -
and lazy.
After hold-over
president Jovenel Moises was
assassinated, 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 have been belated
statements of
concern.
Now it is
reported that the
post-assassination government
"sent a letter to the UN
requesting assistance, UN
Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq
said Saturday." Hours later it
is clear where Haq, filling in
for the vacationing lead
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
said this - it was not emailed
out to all press, and no
mention of UN's previous
"assistance" of cholera and
rape. We'll have more on this.
There has
been 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 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.
Talk is cheap.
Watch this site.
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