9 November 2013 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Links: Vertierres – The greatest battle ever fought on this planet http://bit.ly/12PGpmg
Legal responsibility of UN for reckless transmission of a contagious disease http://bit.ly/15kOuCZ
UN claims to be above the law, says its legal to kill 8000 Haitians with impunity – http://bit.ly/YjAMKs
24 October 2013 — WSWS
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims of the Haitian cholera epidemic, seeks class action status for all victims of the epidemic, which to date has caused at least 8,300 deaths and left more than 679,000 sick.
Recommended HLLN Link Ezili Dantò: The United States is making a mess of Haiti, Wisconsin State Journal – http://bit.ly/152VvWa
Happy Birthday Guy Cayemite, Le Poète! http://www.potomitan.info/ayiti/cayemite/
23 February 2013 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Links: “The accused UN cannot investigate itself” – Ezili Dantò, Oct 30, 2010 interview with Yves Point Du Jour http://bit.ly/bKoR1g
Haiti elections and Cholera interview with Ezili Dantò of HLLN, Oct. 22, 2010, Gorilla Radio http://bit.ly/hpcT3g
13 January 2013 — The Real News Network
The Real News Network have got a bunch of videos dealing with Haiti that’s worth checking out: Continue reading
31 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report
This week in Black Agenda Report
17 March 2012 — HLLN
“These insects invading Haiti are reprobates, racist and narcissistic, analogous to the rich and high-born serial killers conducting their depravity at private clubs – gated compounds left alone by police because of the pathology of power, respect for old money and Ivy League reputations.
Their shameless reign is called Western civilization, hope for Haiti and the ultimate in technology-transfer and US democracy when its nothing if not high classed criminals disemboweling their defenseless preys in Haiti with everyone’s eyes wide open. Refusing to see…”
For complete essay, go to Haiti’s cholera case against UN in light of US–UN recent admissions
http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili/2012/03/haitis-cholera-case-against-the-un-in-light-of-unus-recent-admissions/
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14 March 2012 — HLLN
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20 October 2011 — HLLN
Ezili Dantò’s Note Paul – the god – Farmer pisses and relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims
http://bit.ly/pXiat9
30 July 2011 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Link: Cholera Haiti Whitewashing by Georgianne Nienaber, June 14, 2011, LA Progressive http://bit.ly/qsThpN
Zili Dlo: Clean water for everyone in Haiti — Zili Dlo: Dlo pwòp pou tout moun — How can YOU help? – http://bit.ly/Zili_Dlo
We just received an urgent SOS from the area of Port De Paix (North western) Haiti on a severe cholera outbreak. Our info is that so many people in that City have taken ill and are dying that there’s no place to even hospitalize all who are sick and dying. Medical help is insufficient. Ezili’sHLLN has been prevailed upon to mobilize media interests in this on-going but neglected tragedy.
7 July 2011 — thetyee.ca
On Oct. 18, 2010, Cuban medical personnel in rural Haiti reported they had treated 61 cases of acute watery diarrhea in the previous week. On that same day they had another 28 cases and two deaths.
6 May 2011 — HLLN
Ezili Dantò’s Note:
Folks, Ezili’s HLLN needs your help.
Since October 2010 when the UN-imported cholera outbreak was unleashed we knew this new international and imported excrement would kill thousands upon thousands of innocent Haitians, destroy our Artibonite breadbasket further than Clinton’s Arkansa rice-dumping US policies, sweatshop/export economy and unfair trade already has.
6 May 6th 2011 — independent.co.uk
Five thousand dead, 300,000 ill, and a medical emergency that has already lasted six months; now the people of Haiti have someone to blame for the cholera outbreak which has swept through their earthquake-ravaged country: the blue-helmeted peacekeepers of the United Nations.
5 May 2011 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Link:
– http://bit.ly/aaQpdT
Haiti’s case against the UN for importing cholera epidemic, by Ezili Dantò of HLLN, Oct 28, 2010
(Written less than one month after the outbreak by Ezili Dantò of HLLN:)
– http://bit.ly/c2GNZI
Is Haiti’s deadly cholera outbreak an imported disease?
The virus had been eradicated in Haiti, the Health Ministry said.
– UN-imported cholera to Haiti could affect 800000 people (Rwanda Genocide figures) people by year end : study
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5043993
– Health experts say UN troops could have caused Haiti cholera outbreak, call for investigation
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/photogallery/JeteDlo/2.html#UNcholera
28 December 2010 — upsidedownworld
As the one-year anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake approaches, a brutally frank account of the plight of its people has been delivered by a highly placed diplomat. Ricardo Seitenfus, the representative to Haiti of the Organization of American States, delivered a hard-hitting assessment of the foreign role in that country in an interview published in the December 20 edition of the Swiss daily Le Temps.[i]
The interview also appeared in the right-wing, Haitian daily, Le Nouvelliste. For his words, he was immediately recalled from his posting.
Seitenfus is Brazilian and a graduate of the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. The truths he pronounced in the now-famous interview are not unique; they have been voiced by many Haitians and their allies abroad. But to hear them uttered by someone of his standing is a sign of the unraveling of a miserably-failed foreign military and political occupation force in Haiti.
26 November, 2010 — Institute for Public Accuracy
Alex Main, [in Haiti], main@cepr.net and via Dan Beeton, beeton@cepr.net, http://www.cepr.net/index.php/relief-and-reconstruction-watch
Policy analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main said today: “These elections were already highly problematic before the cholera epidemic began to spread. Haiti’s electoral authority — the CEP [Provisional Electoral Council] — suffers from a lack of credibility; legitimate parties have been excluded from participating in the legislative elections, and very few effective measures have been taken to ensure that Haiti’s over 1.3 million displaced people would have access to the polls. As a result of these problems, there was already a high probability that voter turnout would be very low and that the elections would be widely seen as illegitimate. Now, with an uncontrollable and fatal epidemic further complicating the lives of Haitians, it is patently obvious that the elections should be postponed and measures should be taken to correct the current flaws in the electoral process.”
NICOLAS ROSSIER, nicrossier@gmail.com
Rossier is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes “Aristide and the Endless Revolution.” He recently interviewed Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian president who was ousted in 2004. Video excerpts at Grit TV: http://is.gd/hIzVa
See also transcript of interview at “An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide” http://is.gd/hIzXL
EZILI DANTO, erzilidanto@yahoo.com, http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto, http://ezilidanto.com
Danto is president of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network. She said today: “Obama denounced the recent ‘elections’ in Burma as ‘neither free nor fair.’ The Haitian ‘elections’ are also neither free nor fair. The largest party, Fanmi Lavalas, is excluded, as it has been in every election since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in 2004. Who will be able to vote is not clear — over 1.3 million earthquake victims are displaced, many don’t know which polling place to go to, don’t have their IDs and the country is in the middle of a cholera outbreak that the CDC says is non-Haitian and originated from South Asia. This environment will minimize the voice of most of the people while amplifying that of the Haitian oligarchy, mostly sustained by NGO and U.S. aid funds, living in the luxurious Petionville hills, who have their IDs and are not displaced.
“Another issue is that whoever is elected will have so little power. The UN, Bill Clinton and other foreigners through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission largely run the country but are not accountable to the Haitian people.”
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
25 November 25, 2010 — Global Research– The Guardian – 2010-11-23
Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including the head of Harvard University’s microbiology department, cholera specialist John Mekalanos) made up their minds to that effect several weeks ago.
Poverty and a lack of rudimentary infrastructure compels much of Haiti’s population to drink untreated water, but there has been no cholera there for decades. Haitians have no experience with – and therefore little resistance to – the disease. All the bacterial samples taken from Haitian patients are identical and match a strain endemic in southern Asia. Cholera broke out in Nepal over the summer, and in mid-October a new detachment of Nepalese UN troops arrived at their Haitian base in Mirebalais, near the Artibonite river. A few days later Haitians living downstream of the base started to get sick and the disease spread rapidly throughout the region. On 27 October, journalists visited Mirebalais and found evidence that untreated waste from UN latrines was pouring directly into an Artibonite tributary.
17 November 2010 — WSWS
Haiti remains tense in the wake of Monday’s violent clashes between protesters and United Nations troops that left at least two dead and 16 wounded in Cap-Haitien, the country’s second largest city.
The port city, approximately 300 kilometers north of the capital of Port-au-Prince, was still largely paralyzed on Tuesday, with schools, public offices and businesses shut, streets blocked by barricades of burning tires and sporadic gunfire reported. The bridge leading to the city’s airport was blocked with welded metal barriers.
The United Nations sent a contingent of Spanish troops to reinforce its garrison in Cap-Haitien.
15 November, 2010 — Common Dreams
Protesters clash with UN peacekeepers in second-largest city of Cap Hatien over epidemic that has killed more than 900.
Clashes and gunfire have broken out between protesters and UN troops in Haiti, where a cholera epidemic has claimed over 900 lives in about three weeks.
Protesters, who hold Nepalese UN peacekeepers responsible for the cholera outbreak, threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in the country’s second-largest city of Cap Hatien on Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.
There are also unconfirmed reports that five protesters and one UN peacekeeper have been shot dead.
The UN disputes the claims against the Nepalese mission, but the suspicion persists.
Troubled relationship
Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner, en route to Cap Hatien, said that the situation “has been brewing for a while” with “very tense relations” between the UN peacekeepers stationed there and the local community.
“Back in August, a 16-year-old boy was found dead – he was hanging from a tree. And the Haitians believed that he was killed by the troops up there,” she said. But the troops claimed the boy had committed suicide, and there was never a formal investigation into the boy’s death, she added.
“As you can see, this is really the next phase of this deadly cholera outbreak – this real frustration against the troops – and these people in this community also believe that the UN troops, particularly the Nepalese, are responsible for bringing cholera into this country.”
There are Nepalese as well as Chilean troops in Cap Hatien.
This isn’t the first protest in Haiti, where crowds have taken to the streets, expressing anger at the Haitian government and the UN for failing to contain the outbreak.
Spreading epidemic
There are now cholera cases in every part of Haiti and UN agencies expect a “significant increase” in the number of people affected, a top UN official said on Monday.
“We have cases in every department,” Nigel Fisher, a UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Haiti, said.
The UN and Haiti government had started a review of the epidemic and Fisher said that officials “foresee a significant increase” in the number of cases. He also said it was not unusual for hundreds of thousands of people to be hit by cholera in such an epidemic but added that many would be mild cases.
The Haitian health ministry’s latest figures put the number of dead at 917 with more than 14,600 people treated in hospitals.
Introduction
Over the last two months, cholera has broken out in a number of provinces in South Africa. Thousands of people have been infected and over fifty people have already died.[1] Initially, a number of politicians, including parliamentarians from the right-wing Democratic Alliance (DA), tried to blame Zimbabweans — who were fleeing the economic meltdown, Mugabe’s repressive regime, and a cholera outbreak in their own country — for the outbreak of the disease in South Africa.[2] After several weeks, the Health Department made it clear that the cholera outbreak in South Africa was not related to the one that had occurred in Zimbabwe. Rather, the outbreak was linked to poor sanitation services and a lack of access to clean water.[3] Nonetheless, the Department of Health was not willing to go any further and discuss the underlying reasons why, fifteen years after apartheid, people still don’t have toilets or clean drinking water. Of course, the real reasons for this dire situation which the Health Department is loathe to discuss is that the ANC government has completely failed to address the inequalities of apartheid and have rather embarked on the privatization of water and sanitation services.
The New Dark Age 