UNdisclosed
Location,
March 22 -- As
the UN gushes
about World
Water Day,
there
is a major
hypocrisy not
being covered:
the UN brought
cholera to
Haiti when it
dumped raw
sewage into
the water
supply.
And
after the
death of more
than 5,000
people and
after sitting
on the
legal claims
for 15 months,
the UN tersely
announced that
the claims
were “not
receivable.”
Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked for the
legal and
moral basis of
this
“ruling.” The
UN has said it
will not
answer any
more.
When
UN officials
like John Ging
of OCHA, or
the new UN
Envoy on
Youth,
appear at the
noon briefing,
Inner City
Press asks
them about the
UN's denial of
Haiti cholera
claims.
Ging
to his credit
said it hurts
the UN's
reputation.
The Youth
Envoy said
he didn't know
much about it,
but a family
member of his
served in
MINUSTAH in
Haiti. OK,
but: what
about the
dismissal?
Worst
is UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous, who
had repeated
refused to
answer if DPKO
has
implemented
ANY safeguards
to try to
ensure not
spreading
cholera
elsewhere.
This refusal
to answer is
unacceptable -
but it is
UN-accepted.
On
March 18,
after AFP and
Reuters filed
bogus
complaints for
being
called lapdogs
for taking
from Ladsous'
DPKO
half-answers
to
questions that
Inner City
Press had
asked Ban
Ki-moon
himself, on
March 5, Inner
City Press'
office was
subject to a
non-consensual
search and
raid by the
UN.
Then
the UN
demanded that
the video
Inner City
Press openly
filmed, in its
own office,
after the raid
be removed
from YouTube.
World Water
Day,
indeed. Watch
this site.
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