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Ezili Dantò's Note:
On the School collapse in Haiti and the refusal of the UN to provide Haiti withlong-term and necessary development assistance
When he first took office in 2006, President Rene Preval said that Haiti needs technical assistance, tractors and bulldozers, not tanks and war machinery.
Today, a Church school collapsed in Petionville, Haiti, with hundreds of children buried beneath the rubble and there is no bulldozer, no heavy search and rescue equipment to get those still trapped out.
AP reported that "roughly 500 students from kindergarten through high school attend the school." AFP reports there that 700 students attend the collapsed school. What is certain is that there may be hundreds beneath the rubble right
now. The various medias are reporting 30 bodies recovered and that cries can be heard of those still alive underneath the concrete rubble that Haitians rushing to the scene are digging out with their bare hands.
Recently, on Oct. 14, 2008 when the UN mission in Haiti - which is paid over $600 million per year to point guns at starving Haitians - renewed their mandate, U.N. Special Representative Hedi Annabi, said that the UN in Haiti
would NEVER have a development mandate for Haiti.
(See, "We don't have a development mandate and never will" Annabi said."
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2008-10/msg00004.html ; and
Pointing Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignsix/c6mission.html#nosecurity
).
In that article, the AP, wrote "While Haitian President Rene Preval has called on the force for more than two years to provide long-term assistance with "fewer tanks and more tractors," Annabi said he would not request a shift to
development work this year because it is not the council's mission.
'I'm not going to ask for something that will never happen,' Annabi told The Associated Press as he entered the council chamber." (UN force in Haiti likely to be renewed By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press ,
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2008-10/msg00004.html)
If the UN-MINUSTAH is not in Haiti to help Haiti with what the people actually NEED and to help in the case of emergencies like the school collapse, then why are 9,000 of them there? What use are they to the people of Haiti?
Last week, from November 2nd to the 5th, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, visited Haiti.
During that visit, seemingly unaware of what Annabi had said, Navi Pillay, set about expressing the UN's concerns for the long term human rights/economic and political "development" of Haiti.
These folks refuse to do anything except write reports, issue high-falluting press releases and get paid for pointing guns at starving Haitians in famine-stricken Haiti. Haitians so destroyed by the neo-liberal economic policies, so ravaged by fraudulent free trade, that they had to do a food riot last April, before the world took notice. Ms. Pillay and Mr. Annabi and their UN troops in Haiti do nothing except point guns at hurricane ravaged Haitians, providing no immediate rescue equipment either during the hurricanes or now for the collapse of this school.
But, they can wax lyrically about what Haiti MUST improve while they IGNORE the Haitian presidents' priorities for stability and security. The hypocrisy in all this is telling.
To wit, on that visit, last week, said UN human rights' Commissioner, Navi Pillay, to quote the AP: "expressed concern about the vulnerability of the population to natural disasters and discussed the issue of development of public policies to protect human rights to adequate food, health, housing and water. Access to primary education, for which very limited financial and human resources are available, minimal national quality and safety standards in
schools, and equality and non-discrimination in primary and secondary education were also discussed. " (See High Commissioner in Haiti
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-7L4RY8?OpenDocument).
Since the UN says it will not provide development assistance, not substitute long term assistance, and tractors and bulldozers for tanks and guns, then how real is its concerns about "the vulnerability of the population to natural
disasters"...and the needs to "protect human rights to adequate food, health, housing and water..." and for "minimal national quality and safety standards in schools."
Today if Haiti had more bulldozers, more children would have been rescued.
"One boy was trapped by debris that pinned his legs beneath the rubble. He begged the rescuers to "please cut my feet off," a firefighter told Reuters."
"At the scene, crying and screaming parents searched desperately for their children while bodies of students lay crushed under blocks of concrete."
If some of the over $2 billion dollars spent on the UN to be in Haiti since 2004, had been apportioned to buy some bulldozers, then right-at-this-moment, the still-alive students and teachers, shouting for help beneath the rubbles of
the collapsed three-story La Promesse (The Promise) school in Petion-villeschool, Haiti, could have been rescued. The Haitians on-the-scene, right now, would not have to climb over the pile of crumbled concrete-and-steel
bars, on hands in knees, in order to try to "rescue those pinned underneath, their faces covered in the grey dust of the cement."
If the UN had answered President Preval's call, made in 2006, then today, in2008 doing this tragedy, Haitians would have some rescue equipment, some bulldozers, some tractors. They would not be using bare hands and hand tools toget to the school children trapped beneath the crumbled concrete. (See AP,Reuters and AFP reports below).
Ezili Dantò
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
November 7, 2008, 5:45 pm
On the School collapse in Haiti and the refusal of the UN to provide Haiti withlong-term and necessary development assistance
When he first took office in 2006, President Rene Preval said that Haiti needs technical assistance, tractors and bulldozers, not tanks and war machinery.
Today, a Church school collapsed in Petionville, Haiti, with hundreds of children buried beneath the rubble and there is no bulldozer, no heavy search and rescue equipment to get those still trapped out.
AP reported that "roughly 500 students from kindergarten through high school attend the school." AFP reports there that 700 students attend the collapsed school. What is certain is that there may be hundreds beneath the rubble right
now. The various medias are reporting 30 bodies recovered and that cries can be heard of those still alive underneath the concrete rubble that Haitians rushing to the scene are digging out with their bare hands.
Recently, on Oct. 14, 2008 when the UN mission in Haiti - which is paid over $600 million per year to point guns at starving Haitians - renewed their mandate, U.N. Special Representative Hedi Annabi, said that the UN in Haiti
would NEVER have a development mandate for Haiti.
(See, "We don't have a development mandate and never will" Annabi said."
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2008-10/msg00004.html ; and
Pointing Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignsix/c6mission.html#nosecurity
).
In that article, the AP, wrote "While Haitian President Rene Preval has called on the force for more than two years to provide long-term assistance with "fewer tanks and more tractors," Annabi said he would not request a shift to
development work this year because it is not the council's mission.
'I'm not going to ask for something that will never happen,' Annabi told The Associated Press as he entered the council chamber." (UN force in Haiti likely to be renewed By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press ,
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2008-10/msg00004.html)
If the UN-MINUSTAH is not in Haiti to help Haiti with what the people actually NEED and to help in the case of emergencies like the school collapse, then why are 9,000 of them there? What use are they to the people of Haiti?
Last week, from November 2nd to the 5th, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, visited Haiti.
During that visit, seemingly unaware of what Annabi had said, Navi Pillay, set about expressing the UN's concerns for the long term human rights/economic and political "development" of Haiti.
These folks refuse to do anything except write reports, issue high-falluting press releases and get paid for pointing guns at starving Haitians in famine-stricken Haiti. Haitians so destroyed by the neo-liberal economic policies, so ravaged by fraudulent free trade, that they had to do a food riot last April, before the world took notice. Ms. Pillay and Mr. Annabi and their UN troops in Haiti do nothing except point guns at hurricane ravaged Haitians, providing no immediate rescue equipment either during the hurricanes or now for the collapse of this school.
But, they can wax lyrically about what Haiti MUST improve while they IGNORE the Haitian presidents' priorities for stability and security. The hypocrisy in all this is telling.
To wit, on that visit, last week, said UN human rights' Commissioner, Navi Pillay, to quote the AP: "expressed concern about the vulnerability of the population to natural disasters and discussed the issue of development of public policies to protect human rights to adequate food, health, housing and water. Access to primary education, for which very limited financial and human resources are available, minimal national quality and safety standards in
schools, and equality and non-discrimination in primary and secondary education were also discussed. " (See High Commissioner in Haiti
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-7L4RY8?OpenDocument).
Since the UN says it will not provide development assistance, not substitute long term assistance, and tractors and bulldozers for tanks and guns, then how real is its concerns about "the vulnerability of the population to natural
disasters"...and the needs to "protect human rights to adequate food, health, housing and water..." and for "minimal national quality and safety standards in schools."
Today if Haiti had more bulldozers, more children would have been rescued.
"One boy was trapped by debris that pinned his legs beneath the rubble. He begged the rescuers to "please cut my feet off," a firefighter told Reuters."
"At the scene, crying and screaming parents searched desperately for their children while bodies of students lay crushed under blocks of concrete."
If some of the over $2 billion dollars spent on the UN to be in Haiti since 2004, had been apportioned to buy some bulldozers, then right-at-this-moment, the still-alive students and teachers, shouting for help beneath the rubbles of
the collapsed three-story La Promesse (The Promise) school in Petion-villeschool, Haiti, could have been rescued. The Haitians on-the-scene, right now, would not have to climb over the pile of crumbled concrete-and-steel
bars, on hands in knees, in order to try to "rescue those pinned underneath, their faces covered in the grey dust of the cement."
If the UN had answered President Preval's call, made in 2006, then today, in2008 doing this tragedy, Haitians would have some rescue equipment, some bulldozers, some tractors. They would not be using bare hands and hand tools toget to the school children trapped beneath the crumbled concrete. (See AP,Reuters and AFP reports below).
Ezili Dantò
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
November 7, 2008, 5:45 pm
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