But wait, has
not the RCMP, no less, been training the Haitian National Police for the past
five years? How could all of its work have "fizzled" and ended up as "zero"?
Could the RCMP's presence, and those of other military and para-military
forces in Haiti, have something to do with the grave and troubling rise in
social and institutional violence in that country, compared to the years
of elected government? Alas, our intrepid Canadian journalists do
not inquire after this, nor even pose the questions.
Other questions
not asked by our journalist are, "Why are foreigners running the training of
Haiti's police, anyway? Did anyone ask Haiti's elected government and its
people what they think and want? Or has Haiti's sovereignty been so run into
the ground that Canada (and some of its journalists, at least) need not even
bother asking?"
The latter seems unquestionably the case.
Solidarity,
Haiti Solidarity
BC
