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On
Haiti, ICP
Asks Honore of
"Radical
Opposition,"
Report,
Cholera
Impunity
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
18 -- After
the UN
Security
Council held
its
semi-annual
debate on
Haiti, with 28
speakers, on
March 18,
Inner City
Press
asked UN envoy
Sandra Honore
to explain
paragraph 11
of her speech,
in which she
said:
"The radical
opposition has
continued to
criticize the
recent
political
breakthrough
and has not
desisted from
organizing
anti-Government
demonstrations,
calling for
the
resignation of
President
Martelly and
capitalizing
on
socio-economic
grievances
such as the
recent general
strikes over
fuel prices
and teachers'
salaries."
Isn't it
Haitians'
right, to
protest? Such
protests
elsewhere,
against other
leaders, are
lionized. So
what had
Honore meant?
She
insisted it
wasn't
pejorative. Video here. Inner City
Press also
asked about
the spike in
cholera cases,
and to comment
on if the UN
denying and
evading
responsibility
for bringing
the disease
harmed the
UN's
"legitimacy
and moral
standing."
Honore
cited a
particular
water source,
and said
cholera in
Haiti has not
impaired the
UN's work
around the
world. Really?
Video
here.
Honore's
speech did not
mention the UN
mission
MINUSTAH
shooting at
demonstrators.
On March 17,
Inner City
Press asked
the UN:
Inner City
Press: on what
you said about
the reports
becoming
public, one
suddenly came
back to mind
is the report
from MINUSTAH
on the
shooting of
demonstrators.
I know it's
been said a
number of
times it was
being
finalized.
It happened in
December and
it's now
March.
Is that
released?
When is that
report going
to be
released?
Deputy
Spokesman
Haq:
We'll let you
know once it
can be… once
it has been
finalized for
release.
But, at this
stage, I
believe what
Stéphane has
already said
about this
remains the
case, that the
person
involved in
this was
suspended from
duty.
Honore
on March 18
said
MINUSTAH's
report is
finished and
is "with"
DPKO. We'll
have more on
this.
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