AMERICA/HAITI - Social movements denounce the failure of the UN Mission, protests in the streets

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Protests were held in the capital of Haiti against the presence of MINUSTAH (Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Estabilización en Haiti) due to its total failure. According to a note sent to Fides, the Haitian Platform for Action for an Alternative Development (PAPDA), which brings together almost all social movements in Haiti, presented a report that criticizes the intervention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, on the political and institutional situation of Haiti, made to the Security Council of the UN on 11 September.
Haitians denounce a false picture of the results of the UN Mission, it does not recognize its total failure and the human rights violations at the hands of its troops in the territory of Haiti. For the leaders of PAPDA, UN forces not only did not solve the security problems, but even contributed to the country's political crisis. Furthermore, "the Mission does not meet Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which provides for this kind of mission only if there are groups in conflict or a situation of armed conflict, such as civil war, crimes against humanity and/or genocide", the statement said.
The situation in Haiti is tense because in October the mandate of MINUSTAH should be renewed and at the same time the political system is still blocked because the date for the elections has not yet been fixed (see Fides 21/08/2014). (CE) (Agenzia Fides 23/09/2014)


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