In
Haiti,
UN Fires Into Crowds, Says Its Only Focus Is Future, Not How
Cholera Arrived
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 15 -- With protesters in Haiti
still blaming the UN for
the deadly cholera outbreak, and UN
peacekeepers reportedly opening
fire on the crowds, at UN headquarters on Monday Inner City Press
asked the UN's interim humanitarian coordinator for Haiti Nigel
Fisher why the UN had not acted to fully investigate reports of UN
peacekeepers' roles in bringing or spreading the disease. Video here,
from
Minute 22:21.
“My focus is on
how to stop” the disease, Fisher replied. But even the UN's deputy
special envoy Paul Farmer denounced this approach, call it more
politics than science. Beyond being anti scientific, it appears in
this case that the UN's attempts to brush off complaints and not
fully investigate them has come back to haunt the UN, as suspicions
have only grown.
Inner
City
Press asked when the last time cholera had been present in
Haiti. “There has never before been cholera in Haiti,” Fisher
answered.
Fisher
characterized
as “political manipulation” the claims by the Mayor
of Mirebalais that the disease may have come from the UN Peacekeeping
base there, staffed by peacekeepers from Nepal. But the Centers for
Disease Control, even Fisher acknowledged Monday, said the strain is
a strain which originated in South Asia.
Nigel Fisher by video, facts on MINUSTAH role not
shown, (c) MRLee
Some
in the UN
system say that even looking into the role of the peacekeepers from
Nepal is somehow racist. But political correctness can lead to riots
in which UN peacekeepers are shooting into crowds of Haitians. Which
is worse? Watch this site.
, 
