Acknowledging the damage is irreparable, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica apologized to Haiti for the kidnapping off the streets of Haiti and gang rape and abuse of a Haitian teen by four Uruguayan U.N. "soldiers".

I thought to see only the usual UN lies and obfuscations about how Haitians are responsible for their own victimization. Uruguay seems different. Hopefully they won't allow the UN and US aggressors to force them to sweep this under the rug as the UN has done for over seven years of slaughters, sexual assaults and bringing the cholera plague to Haiti.

 

But it is good and no small example for those of us who have been bringing complaints against the UN for sexual abuse and wrongful killing of Haitians for over seven years without any UN honcho or country in Haiti accepting responsibility, that "Uruguay's president has apologized for the "outrage" carried out by peacekeepers accused of sexually assaulting a young Haitian man and vowed the "maximum penalty" for anyone found guilty." ( Uruguay apologizes over alleged Haiti sex assault ).

 

"Immediately, as per usual, a U.N. 'preliminary investigation' set the normal unconscionable UN tone, finding that the UN soldiers did not sexually abuse the Haitian teen. Miami Herald and Huffington Post, for example, along with other media took to parroting the UN apologists that this could have been "a prank," "a bad joke," despite the video being authenticated, despite the forced and criminal abduction, the history of the UN in Haiti and the Haiti residents' testimonies - all with racist indifference, downplaying the horrific, barbaric abuse of military power. Instead of using the correct word for the alleged behavior of the UN troops in questions, that the teen was KIDNNAPPED and gang raped by these depraved UN soldiers, all media reporting this so far, say something similar, that the alleged victim was "snatched by a soldier outside the front gate of a U.N. base and was taken inside. Those words: "kidnapped," "criminal," "corrupt" and "gang" seemed used by the UN, US, international community and the mainstream media only to refer to Haiti's poor." -- Ezili Dantò of HLLN (See, UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian
children .)

 

But, Fernandez Huidobro said the Uruguayan investigation will "go to the bone" and that Uruguay "should apologize as urgently as possible to the people and government of Haiti, give reparations to the victim of these abhorrent acts, be exhaustive in its investigation and apply the maximum imaginable sanction against those responsible," Fernandez Huidobro told reporters in comments on the ministry's website." (Uruguay apologizes to Haiti for alleged sex abuse By RAUL O. GARCES, Associated Press .)

In our experience at HLLN, when the UN says it will investigate, that's usually a lie or the investigation if it is done is kept from the Haitian public. (See, HLLN Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports on UN rape by Ezili Dantò, Nov. 9, 2009 http://bit.ly/41korO )

Uruguay must make its investigation public, its punishment public, its reparation swift and just and not be influence by the Obama/Clinton administration whose only concern is keeping US foot on Haitian soil to fleece Haiti's riches for US big business, the NGOs and as territorial zone to block Cuba and Venezuela from using the assets of their country for the benefit of their own citizens.

As we've urged since the beginning when this Bush regime change started in 2004 and the US got the UN to be its proxy military arm in Haiti, its way past time the US and UN were out of Haiti. Haitians are not at war, this occupation is racist, about false benevolence, forced assimilation and Western tyranny.

The unrest that took down Haiti's democratically elected government in 2004 and that is the excuse for the UN presence in Haiti today was financed and orchestrated by the United States, France and Canada. That Brazil is making preparations to leave is one step in the right directions. Haiti cannot be occupied for the benefit of the US corporatocracy and NGOs. The US/MINUTAH occupying force needs to leave Haiti...YESTERDAY and the US, UN, France and Canada provide reparation for crime against humanity and the personal and environmental damage their cannabalistic occupation have wrought on the peaceful masses of Haiti.

HLLN
Sept 7, 2011