[Peace-discuss] Fw: Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti Relief

Sun Feb 21 22:26:19 CST 2010

I was dong fine until I got to this sentence:

"There are increasing suspicions that the U.S. may even have *caused *the
earthquake. [xx] "

But I suppose I shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water....

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:52 PM, unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net> wrote:

>  " As Chossudovsky and numerous others have pointed out, since the
> devastation of 12 January, the Haitian people have exhibited a high degree
> of solidarity, courage and social commitment which the militarization of
> relief operations can only undermine, weakening the organizational
> capabilities of Haitians to rebuild and reinstate their institutions of
> civilian government, as well as their lives. "
>
> Shock Doctrine ala Naomi Klein being used again to further the corporate
> agenda !
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Sladky <tanstl at aol.com>
> *To:* undisclosed-recipients:
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:17 AM
> *Subject:* Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti Relief
>
>
> *Clinton Co-ordinating Haiti Relief*
> *Clinton: Time to Take a Break - and give Haiti one at the same time.*
>
> by Julie Webb-Pullman
>
>
>
>
> Ban Ki-Moon obviously has a very twisted sense of humour. As if the Katrina
> fiasco wasn’t sufficient evidence of the singular unsuitability of the U.S.
> to lead any sort of disaster effort, appointing a power-abusing
> sex-offending lying ex-President as Special Envoy beggared belief.
> Even the most generous interpretation would have to conclude that the U.S.
> had already surpassed its Katrina incompetence - they took eight days, yes
> EIGHT days, to decide to air-drop food and water into Haiti, resulting in
> who knows how many thousand unnecessary deaths. [i] Defense Secretary Robert
> Gates said earlier airdrops were ruled out “*because they might have done
> more harm than good*.”’ [ii] (ie there would be more survivors who might
> challenge the blatant US military occupation, carried out under the guise of
> ‘security’ to protect the populace from the pseudo-rioting and looting
> invented by U.S. media hacks to justify it – but more of the un-generous
> interpretation later.)
> When the U.S. finally got around to airdrops, ie when the “riots and
> looting” (read, people frantically trying to get food, water, and medical
> help for themselves and others) were happening anyway because so little
> assistance was forthcoming, and some ethical international commentators were
> having more success getting the truth out than Fox et al were in distorting
> it, we learnt the purported ‘why’ of the delay: “*Parachuting bundles of
> food and water into Haiti became viable for the first time Monday in part
> because there are enough troops there to identify a safe place to drop them…
> *” [iii]
> Give us a break – before the earthquake even struck the U.N. already had
> over 10,000 troops, other personnel and international police on the ground
> in Haiti [iv] and there were some 10,000 NGOs registered [v] - are we
> seriously expected to believe these guys couldn’t get it together to receive
> air drops for over a week?
> Worse still, the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) held
> pre-disaster simulations in Miami of a relief response to the impact of a
> hurricane in Haiti the DAY BEFORE the earthquake! [vi] Are their memories
> are THAT short??!!
> It’s therefore pretty obvious that both the UN and the U.S. military, not
> to mention a sizeable bunch of NGOs, aren’t up to the job of looking after
> disaster victims’ interests. What is less obvious is why the UN does not
> head up the response effort by someone from a country with a proven
> track-record in this, such as Cuba, [vii] together with someone from UNICEF,
> given the age demographic of Haiti.
> Maybe because the REAL reason it took eight days for the U.S.
> administration to start a genuine emergency response is that, with the
> complicity of Ban Ki-Moon and puppet-President Préval, they were too busy
> using the earthquake as a convenient excuse to secure U.S. interests in the
> region. They were too busy taking military control of Haiti’s airport and
> port facilities, prioritising the deployment of U.S. troops and evacuation
> of U.S. citizens, to trouble themselves with such trivial details as the
> provision and distribution of food and medical supplies to the devastated
> Haitians. [viii]
> How many thousands more Haitians would have died but for the Cuban doctors,
> who had continuously, and without fanfare, been providing emergency health
> care from Day One, [ix] and Venezuela from Day Two – after they had managed
> to circumvent the U.S. military blockade of the airport, that is. [x]
> More concerned about appearing to ‘lead the world’ and upstaging Cuba and
> Venezuela in the public relations stakes , the U.S. prevented not only
> CARICOM countries from landing with humanitarian assistance, but also aid
> flights from France, Brazil, and Italy, as well as several international aid
> agencies such as UNICEF, World Food Program (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières
> (MSF), and the Red Cross, who were either refused landing or diverted to
> other countries in the essential first days. [xii]
> And it’s not only one-way – the U.S. is also running a naval blockade to
> keep adult Haitians from getting out. [xiii] Unfortunately, what happens to
> them inside the country even without a quake, is not exactly fun either.
> [xiv] Economic interests (but whose) are clearly not being ignored, and
> Canada also has its fingers in the pie. [xvi] While Venezuela promptly
> cancelled Haiti’s debt, [xvii] others have yet to even repay theirs, [xviii]
> and still others are just cashing in on the tragedy. [xix]
> There are increasing suspicions that the U.S. may even have *caused* the
> earthquake. [xx]
> The result of this bare-faced U.S. military invasion masquerading as aid
> was a veritable chorus of well-founded accusations from international
> diplomatic, media, academic, legal, human rights, NGO and political circles
> that the U.S., with the complicity of the United Nations [xxi], was using
> the Haitian earthquake to undertake a military occupation of Haiti to
> further U.S. strategic military and economic interests in the region, [xxii]
> shaming them into unconfirmed reports after a week of stalling that the U.S.
> would give precedence for landing to civilian over military planes at
> Port-au-Prince’s airport. [xxiii]
> So aid finally started reaching people...but that was not the only thing to
> arrive. In scenes reminiscent of the 2004 tsunami when thousands of child
> survivors just ‘disappeared’ into the people-trafficking ether, human
> vultures had already swooped, stealing children from hospitals,[xxiv] and
> scooping up ‘orphans’ by the plane- and bus-load and transporting them out
> of Haiti. [xxv]
> Unicef said the disaster was likely to have separated thousands of children
> from their parents or guardians, and the agency repeated warnings about the
> threat of child traffickers. In an attempt to prevent the illegal departure
> of many children UNICEF is deploying two specialized staff to control
> documentation at the airport.[xxvii]
> So take a bus instead! Ten U.S. ‘missionaries’ are already under arrest for
> trying to smuggle 33 children out of the country, and that was not their
> first attempt.[xxvii] Of course they are most unlikely to actually face
> trial let alone be convicted of this blatant crime – Clinton has already
> negotiated a deal to get all but Laura Silsby freed[xxix] (she obviously
> should have worn her blue dress that day...), showing how much HE gives a
> toss about what UNICEF has to say.
> We should hardly be surprised - even a human-rights-law-quoting
> suitably-outraged usually on-the-button US commentator neglected to mention
> that the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world NOT to have ratified
> the Convention on the Rights of the Child.[xxx] Why should they suddenly
> start caring about Haitian children when they don’t even pretend to protect
> their own? And in Clinton’s case, have sex with at least one woman in his
> employ young enough to be his daughter? Isn’t that precisely one of the
> major problems already facing ‘restaveks’?
> Given U.S. conduct since the Haiti quake, and Bill Clinton’s before and
> since, I think we can safely say that in condoning the US military
> occupation of Haiti and in appointing Bill Clinton as the UN Special Envoy,
> Ban Ki-Moon demonstrated a gross lack of respect and concern not only for
> Haitians but for every member country of his organisation, and several of
> its own agencies to boot. Clinton’s illness provides him with an opportunity
> to make at least some amends.
> As Chossudovsky and numerous others have pointed out, since the devastation
> of 12 January, the Haitian people have exhibited a high degree of
> solidarity, courage and social commitment which the militarization of relief
> operations can only undermine, weakening the organizational capabilities of
> Haitians to rebuild and reinstate their institutions of civilian government,
> as well as their lives.
> Community-based integrated disaster response and recovery models have been
> promoted by various UN bodies and at-risk countries for at least a
> decade.[xxxi]
> It’s time Ban Ki-Moon walked the talk. He should be supporting UN agencies
> in their difficult task of using best practice to assist Haitians to rebuild
> their shattered lives, not undermining them by condoning a military
> occupation and genocide.[xxxii]
> He should now appoint the most appropriate person as Special Envoy for the
> response and recovery effort – a person with demonstrated capacity in the
> area, without exploitative economic motives but with the trust and
> confidence of Haitians. This is clearly NOT Bill Clinton, whose current
> health crisis suggests it is time to give him a break, and appoint a new
> person to this important role.
> Ban Ki-Moon now has a unique opportunity to stand with the south and look
> left, where he will find several candidates with impeccable credentials -
> not only world leaders in disaster preparedness, management and recovery,
> but also a lengthy history of solidarity in the region and beyond - plus a
> demonstrated commitment to refrain from military intervention in other
> nation states.
> Kia kaha, Ban Ki-Moon – get the cavalry out of there, and someone in who
> actually gives a damn about Haitians.
>
>
> *Julie Webb-Pullman** **is a New Zealand based freelance writer who has
> reported about - and on occasion from - Central America for Scoop since
> 2003. Send Feedback tojulie at scoop.co.nz
> *
> *Notes*
> i. “*Haiti: Obama’s Katrina, Many post-quake deaths could have been
> prevented*.” Drs Soumitra R. Eachempati, Dean Lorich, and David Helfet
> 25/01/10
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025091656446622.html;
> see also *American Paratroopers Land In Haiti: And on the Eighth Day...*by
> William Bowles 20/01/10
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17084; see also The
> Economist: 18/01/10 “[T]he majority of victims did not perish during the
> 35-second tremor... some 200,000 people were probably injured or trapped but
> not killed by the quake... an additional 25,000 of them have died on each
> day that has passed since the tremor, as a result of treatable ailments such
> as bleeding, dehydration, suffocation and infection.”
> http://www.economist.com/world/americas/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15320716;
> see also *History of a Haitian Holocaust: Blackwater before drinking water
> *by Greg Palast 17/01/10 gregpalast.com<http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/>
> ii. *US may play security role in Haiti in earthquake's aftermath*15/01/10
> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_may_play_security_role_in_haiti_eS762qlxqs19Z63V5oEoCL
> iii. *U.N. approves extra troops, police for Haiti *19/01/10
> iv.
> http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story
> v. *U.N. approves extra troops, police for Haiti *Staff and Wire reports
> 19/01/10
> http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=37304484.story,
>
> vi. *Haiti's New PM and the Power of NGOs* 30/09/08 by Nikolas Barry-Shaw
> http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/9_30_8/9_30_8.html
> vii. *Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts *<http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44407&dcn=e_gvetwww>by
> Bob Brewin 15/01/10 http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/011510bb1.htm
> viii. “*Cuba’s success in saving lives gives us a model of effective
> government-driven disaster preparedness. ...the secret of this success is
> that it is also a matter of enacting and enforcing laws, building and
> maintaining institutions that are accountable, and producing an environment
> of mutual respect and trust between government and the population.”* From
> *The Role of National Governments and the “International Community*” Food
> and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Corporate Document
> Repository *http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad710e/ad710e0k.htm ; *see also
> *CUBA, Weathering the storm: lessons in risk reduction from Cuba *An Oxfam
> America Report By Martha Thompson with Izaskun Gaviria 2004 *
> http://www.preventionweb.net/files/4585_Us01MH281-Ft.pdf; *see also *Disaster
> Relief Management in Cuba: Why Cuba’s disaster relief model is worth careful
> study Jonathan *Keyser and Wayne Smith May 2009 *
> http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/photos/Final%20Cuba%20IPR%200509.pdf; *see
> also *When disaster strikes: the response to the South Asian earthquake* *PAKISTAN:
> Cuban solidarity – bringing healthcare to the people *IRIN project of the
> UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs *
> http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=6&ReportId=34374 *
> ix. *As U.S. Prepares Long-term Occupation, Haiti’s Quake Victims Still
> Without Aid* By Bill Van Auken 23/01/10
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j23.shtml;see also *Haiti:
> An Unwelcome Katrina Redux* by Cynthia McKinney 19/01/10
> http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17063
> x. *Cuba sends more doctors to Haiti *Dominican Today 14/01/10
> http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/world/2010/1/14/34483/Cuba-sends-more-doctors-to-Haiti;
> see also *Reflections by Comrade Fidel: We send Doctors, not Soldiers *Fidel
> Castro Ruz 23/01/10
> http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2010/ing/f230110i.html;
> xi. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicholas Maduro is reported to have said
> that aid shipments to Haiti were being diverted via the neighbouring
> Dominican Republic to avoid restrictions imposed by the US at the
> Port-au-Prince airport. http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5086
> xii. Heritage Foundation response on 13/01/10, the day after the quake,
> quickly taken up by Obama: “*The government under President Réne Préval is
> weak and literally now in shambles. Cuba and Venezuela, already intent on
> minimizing U.S. influence in the region, are likely to seize this
> opportunity to raise their profile and influence... The earthquake has both
> humanitarian and U.S. national security implications... President Obama
> should initiate a rapid response that is not only bold but decisive,
> mobilizing U.S. military...* *Congress should immediately expand U.S.
> trade preferences for Haiti.”* Unfortunately, he also adopted their
> priorities: “*U.S. military and civilian forces; heavy equipment to clear
> the debris and rubble; and emergency food supplies and medicines.*”
> http://www.heritage.org/research/latinamerica/wm2754.cfm
> xiii. *Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff
> Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince *Doctors Without Borders/Médecins
> Sans Frontières (MSF) <http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/> 17/01/10;
> see also “*UNICEF tried to send a plane full of medical kits, blankets and
> tents, but was denied permission to land and was forced to return to
> Panama...On Saturday, January 16, the World Food Program (WFP) was finally
> able to land airplanes with food, medicine and water—after being diverted on
> Thursday and Friday so that the U.S. could land troops and equipment, and
> lift Americans and other foreigners to safety*.” From *Why So Many People
> Died in the Earthquake... And Why the U.S. Can Do No Good in Haiti *by Li
> Onesto 19/01/10 *MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
> "revcom.us" claiming to be* http://www.rwor.org/a/189online/Haiti-en.html<http://revcom.us/>;
> see also *US Military Operations Block Relief Efforts in Haiti* by Alex
> Lantier 21/01/10 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j21.shtml
> xiv. *Haiti Earthquake: US Ships Blockade Coast to Thwart Exodus to
> America *by Bruno Waterfield 19/01/10
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7030237/Haiti-earthquake-US-ships-blockade-coast-to-thwart-exodus-to-America.html ;
> *Washington Shuts Door on Haitian Refugees* by Tom Eley 20/01/10
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j20.shtml ; *Will the U.S.
> Send Haitian Refugees to Guantanamo?* by Unsilent Generation 19/01/10
> http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/01/19/will-the-u-s-send-haitian-refugees-to-guantanamo/
> xv. “...*the UN has been warehousing young Haitian men and moving them,
> through criminalization and indefinite detention in prison for years, out of
> the area in Site Soley where access to oil deposit are noted [on this map<http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html>
> ]”* From *Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti
> earthquake?* by Haitian lawyer Ezili Dantò
> http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake;
>
> xvi. John Pilger said “*Clinton is Haiti’s most notorious privateer,
> demanding de-regulation of the economy for the benefit of the sweatshop
> barons. Lately, he has been promoting a $55 million deal to turn the north
> of Haiti into an American-annexed “tourist playground”*. From *The
> Kidnapping of Haiti* by John Pilger 28/01/10
> http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela ;
> See also *Profiting From Haiti’s Crisis* by Benjamin Dangl 18/01/10
> http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1827/1/ ; see also *Bush,
> Clinton and the Crimes of US Imperialism in Haiti* by Patrick Martin
> 18/01/10 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j18.shtml; see
> also Li Onesto “…this is what Bill Clinton had to say after the earthquake:
> ‘*Once we deal with the immediate crisis, the development plans the world
> was already pursuing have to be implemented more quickly and on a broader
> scale. I'm interested in just pressing ahead with it... ‘ *In other words,
> Clinton now sees the massive destruction in Haiti as an opportunity to press
> forward with his plans for setting up profitable sweatshops and tourist
> areas.” From *Why So Many People Died in the Earthquake... *by Li Onesto
> 19/01/10*MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
> "revcom.us" claiming to be* http://www.rwor.org/a/189online/Haiti-en.html<http://revcom.us/>;
> see also “*A map<http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html>showing the mining resources in Haiti shows five oil/gas sites in Haiti.
> *” from *Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti
> earthquake?*
> http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake;
>
> xvii. *Canada and Haiti: Relief Efforts in the Shadow of Past “Help”* by
> Dan Freeman-Maloy 17/01/10 http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/297.php;
> see also *Peacekeeping or War-making?* by Murray Dobbin Murray Dobbin's
> Blog <http://murraydobbin.ca/> 21/01/10
> xviii. *Venezuela Cancels Haiti’s Debt* By Venezuelan Embassy in the
> U.S.A. 25/01/10
> http://www.transcend.org/tms/article_detail.php?article_id=2548
> xix. *Haiti: The Hate and the Quake: A Long History of Stolen Wealth *by
> Sir Hilary Beckles 17/01/10
> http://www.nationnews.com/story/guest-column-hilary-beckles-copy-for-web
> xx. *Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious Debt?* by Eric Toussaint
> and Sophie Perchellet 18/01/10
> http://www.cadtm.org/Haiti-Grants-to-repay-an-odious ; see also *US
> Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to
> Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti* by Jeremy Scahill 18/01/10
> http://rebelreports.com/post/341673601/us-security-company-offers-to-perform-high-threat
> xxi. *The U.S. Created the Earthquake in Haiti?* PRAVDA 24/01/10
> http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/24-01-2010/111809-russia_says_US_created_earthqua-0;
> see also *Are they that sick? Did US Weather Weapon destroy Haiti? *By
> Junius Ricardo Stanton 29/01/10
> http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/are-they-that-sick-did-u-s-weather-weapon-destroy-haiti/
> *Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti
> earthquake?* Ezili Dantò 22/01/10
> http://open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto/2010/01/22/did_mining_and_oil_drilling_trigger_the_haiti_earthquake;
> see also 1997 US Defense Dept transcript acknowledging the existence of such
> technology
> http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674,
> xxii. *No 'Hope for Haiti' Without Justice *by Mark LeVine 19/01/10
> http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/01/20101196265844450.html
> xxiii. *The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian
> Operation or an Invasion? *by Michel Chossudovsky 15/01/10
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17000 ; see also *Chavez
> Says U.S. Occupying Haiti in Name of Aid *Reuters17/01/10
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117*; US accused of
> "Occupying" Haiti as Thousands of Troops Flood in.* by Aislinn Laing and
> Tom Leonard 18/01/10
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7020908/US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.html;
> see also *Latin American Leaders say U.S. occupying Haiti *Press TV<http://www.presstv.ir/> 22/01/10
> http://www.infowars.com/latin-american-leaders-say-us-occupying-haiti/;
> see also *Haiti Needs Emergency Relief, not Military Intervention!* Canada
> Haiti Action Network 23/01/10 http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=973 23/01/10;
> see also *The Kidnapping of Haiti *by John Pilger 28/01/10
> http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/02/haiti-pilger-obama-venezuela
> xxiv. *US Military to Enforce State of Emergency in Haiti *by Tom Eley
> 19/01/10 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j19.shtml
> xxv. *Missing children: Abduction and human trafficking?* UNICEF 22/01/10
> http://newstrendstoday.com/missing-children-abduction-human-trafficking/03755
> xxvi. *Adopted orphans arrive in France as UNICEF raises trafficking fears
> *by France 24 22/01/10
> http://www.france24.com/en/20100122-haiti-earthquake-missing-children-hospitals-trafficking-adoptions-unicef-spain
> xxvii. *Haiti revival after quake could take generations says UN chief *Rory
> Carroll and Tom Phillips 29/01/10
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/haiti-quake-generations-un-decades
> xxviii. *Tamar Hahn in Haiti: orphaned and separated children* 20/01/10
> http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/archive/2010/01/20/tamar-hahn-in-haiti-orphaned-and-separated-children.aspx
> xxix. *Officer: U.S. missionaries had tried to take other Haitian kids *Karl
> Penhall 09/02/10
> http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/09/haiti.border.arrests/?hpt=T2
> xxx. *Clinton brokers deal over Haiti orphan abductions* Tony Allen-Mills
> 07/02/10 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7017950.ece
> xxxi. *Child Slavery in Haiti* by Stephen Lendman 03/02/10
> http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/02/child-slavery-in-haiti.html and *Washington’s
> Militarized Takeover of Haiti* by Stephen Lendman 25/01/10
> http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm
> xxxii. For example, UNICEF
> http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/women_disaster_relief.pdf; UNDP
> http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=598 ;
> FAO http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/AC798E/ac798e0e.htm; as well as
> country-level for example, Cuba
> http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/trainings-events/edu-materials/v.php?id=4585,
> Venezuela
> http://www.proventionconsortium.org/themes/default/pdfs/CRA/Venezuela.pdf,
> India http://www.preventionweb.net/files/598_8373.pdf, Taiwan
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/7m748656p42jv543/, Australia
> http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/communities/progserv/Pages/disaster_assistance.aspx,
>
> Lendman quotes Professor Francis Boyle "*The forcible transfer of children
> of one group (Black Hatians) to another group (White Americans) is genocide
> under the 1948 Genocide Convention (besides violating Fourth Geneva)."*From
> *Washington’s Militarized Takeover of Haiti* by Stephen Lendman 25/01/10
> http://www.rense.com/general89/wash.htm
>

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