See 'Orgy of massacre, rape, torture and mutilation in final days' - an eye-witness account of the rape amid impunity by a Sri Lankan soldier."
We could have told AP that in 2007, both the UN and the UN's investigative body, the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) told us what they told the Tamil Guardian, in 2011, that they were working with the Sri Lankan government, and all "those responsible would be 'held accountable for their actions."
With absolute certainty we Haitians know that the numbers of Haiti children hurt by UN soldiers (2000 overall allegations reported by AP) are as vastly understated as the number of dead UN cholera victims are vastly understated. The media headlines that the UN is leaving and there will be no tolerance for UN sexual predators, the soundbites don't tell you nothing has changed for Haitians. Nothing. Our UN nightmare continues.
See, it seems in those soundbites as if there's progress in exposure of crimes committed by the UN peacekeepers and that the UN is leaving Haiti. But the UN is not leaving Haiti. It's just reorganizing to rise up with a new name without the previous MINUSTAH liabilities while papering over its moral bankruptcy. The UN talks on. Moves lots of air around, mouthing zero tolerance spiels; pushing various "reports" and planted propaganda in the media to show its "efforts" and "recordings," which inevitably bring no concrete justice, no restitution monies, no mental health trauma counseling and no relief to the Haiti victims of its sexual predators.
The timing and what's amplified in the reporting are suspicious and manipulative.
AP focus on a narrow if devastating assault on children that people can't really stay stomach on for long without psychological hurt. But, it wasn't only children who were hurt in the Sri Lankan brothels. Some Haiti women were trafficked out of Haiti. Or, as the UN wants to term it "went" or "followed" the Sri Lanka soldiers were put in brothels and "polygamous households" in Sri Lanka also. Frankly, we've never been able to get the truth out of the United Nations. But we know, from the Ezili Danto Witness Project on the ground in those years, that Haiti women, children and men were drugged and some kidnapped from military trucks/tanks, and forced to stay and service the foreign crews, there supposedly to bring the "rule of law" and "stability" to Haiti after the US took down Haiti's first democratically elected president for a second time.
We spent ten years publicly asking the UN for the report on the 2007 Sri Lankan investigation and again via mail and in a public letter on April 3, 2017 after the Aljazeera interview.
But on April 12, 2017, the Associated Press just reported on some aspects of it, out of the blue, and at a point when there was a Security Council vote coming up on whether to extend MINUSTAH for another six months or not and/or to eliminate it altogether. The AP report that 134 Sri Lankan soldiers were involved and got deported for sexually abusing 9 children and there was no arrest. That statement conflicts with a report we had where:
"Brigadiear Nihal Hapuarachchi, spokesperson for the Sri Lankan Army is reported to have stated: "A full inquiry was carried out and those soldiers who were found guilty were prosecuted" -- See, Haitian lawyers condemn impunity for Sri Lankan soldiers
So what is the reason for this AP report which emphasized the 2007 sex rings, but didn't talk to the Haitians involved in the matter, but relied on UN reports?
Is there something that MINUSTAH did that is worst than the 2004-2007 sex rings in Haiti, something that's going on today, in April 2017, right now?
Yes. Are the white Liberals, the Neocons, the feminists, the anti-war folks so appalled about the "Saren gas" victims in Syria and their Black assimilated UN/NGO/US deep state employees appropriating Haiti suffering to buff up their resumes, get more funding for their living expenses, write books, create documentaries, maintain themselves in a poverty-pimping job while whitewashing the scope of the UN crimes in Haiti. Indeed, they are. That's why we Haitians have put together this petition. We know we're alone. Have always been.
The fact is, the UN brought a cholera epidemic to Haiti that killed over 30,000 Haitians, made over one million sick, continues to kill Haitians and this was covered up by the UN, the Clintons, the CDC and the Obama Administration. The victims never got any justice.
The UN presided over the killing of from 14,000 to 20,000, mostly unarmed Haitians from 2004 to 2006, who protested the bi-centennial regime change of George W Bush, Jr that brought in the UN-MINUSTAH mission through the handy propaganda work of Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Kofi Annan.
The UN sex trafficking, prostitution, drug and organ trafficking rings continue to this day and are not a thing of the past in 2007. Moreover, contrary to the current mainstream media soundbites, it's not just 9 children who were abused by 134 Sri Lankan soldier somewhere around the vicinity of the Habitation Lecler ruins in Haiti.
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