It's evident in how the article ends with the UN's often-cited DEFENSE and not the Haiti counter to that defense that there's a subliminally projected judgement here in this neutral, investigative reporting. The UN wrongdoers must take their victims as they find them, cannot escape liability for the harms they caused by pointing to the vulnerability of the Haiti victims they came supposedly to protect. That just defies logic and all principles of law and equity.
However, minus the double standard, structural and subliminal racism, the article is the most chronologically thorough and high level mainstream media reporting on the matter to date.
Here's how we see the situation at HLLN.
2. The Set Up. Act 3 to followThe set up. It's like watching, in slow motion, a horrific accident. First, former President Bill Clinton comes out and admits the UN brought cholera.
Then NYT finally writes a notable investigative report but quotes Paul Farmer as if he's just a doctor not a mouthpiece for UN.
The scrubbing of the Nepal contingent is done. They're not at the base anymore and a new, more hygiene-conscious UN group replaced them, so the article notes. What's left except for Farmer to give his IDJH Board of Director buddies, who filed a petition for compensation, a UN mea culpa where the reparation monies goes back into the hands of the same NGOs-UN folks like back in Trouilliot days when the victims of the 1937 massacres where played by Haiti government and the international vampires" (The White Saviors of Haiti vs. Haitian Self-determination and Actualization by Ezili Dantà ², Sept. 17, 2005.)
Haitians don't exist unless employed by the vampires -- both in the Left and Right game of neocolonialism. They've got all the resources and white supremacy allows they're the only ones who are credible to raise funds for THEIR "cause and case" -- meaning Haiti sufferings, disease, poverty and pains the system and their alliances mostly are responsible for.
3. I Feel your PainNext time someone who just got to Haiti or has been going there off and on for twenty, thirty years tells you how they're more Haitian than the native Haitian or "know" what it's like to BE Haitian. Tell them they don't.
Describe what you're feeling from me. They don't know the shock after shocking humiliation a Haitian suffers in this merciless world -- two Bush Regime Changes, 8-endless years of US occupation behind UN guns, the dependency forced upon Haiti with privatization of public assets, US efforts to keep China sweatshop wages lower and lower by using threat of moving their sweatshops to Haiti, the ravages of earthquake, inhumane deportations or indefinite detentions, white saviors from the Left and Right US "democracy" game speaking for Haitians, the UN imported cholera and denial of responsibility, the destruction of Haiti food sovereignty with Clinton Arkansas rice. The soul deep fire and pain. The weight of three hundred years of European beatings, rape, disembowelment and two hundred years of neocolonialism and containment in poverty coupled with victim blaming white supremacy gloating. The agony of working so hard and never being visible or credible unless you stand for Officialdom or work as an employee for their narcissistic Tarzan/Jane shuffle. (See also, Embedded AP releases a State Department bulletin as "news" on Haiti.)
Si'm pa rele, m'ap toufe. But we bend, don't break -- nou se rozo. Endure. Use what's in our hands. Ours, at HLLN, is this writing, defending and political analysis.
See below the comments Ezili's HLLN made on the New York times comment section to give the Haiti non-colonial perspective.
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4. The Four Comments New York Times posted submitted by Ezili's HLLN, April 1, 1012
Photo: REUTERS/Allison Shelley (See, Haiti Message on UN responsibility for importing cholera)
1. We posted the NYT article on FB and Twitter when the article came out but noted HLLN had to change the NYT title to "Global Failures with UN-imported Cholera to Haiti"
The unlikely happened, NYT originally had the title for this front page, Sunday article, it seems, as "Haiti's Cholera outraced the Experts and Tainted the UN."
HAITI's cholera -- TAINTED THE UN? Swear to the Ancestors, that was the title, no lie. I wasn't going to read the darn thing at all. But noticed a kind soul was also as offended. So I started making comments, calling out the stigmatization of the "diseased" Haitians who "TAINTED" the UN. For whatever reason, Deborah Sontag's New York Times feature seemed to have changed title alternatively from:
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