A complex situation – just got more complex.
More than likely a lot of this is being driven by one or more political factions trying to gain some traction in the Haitian Election November 28th. It isn’t out of the question that at least one of those factions would love to find an excuse to cancel the election.
The second issue is the UN behaving badly. UN Troops aren’t necessarily the “Good guys”, and there have been a number of accusations circulated, and reports of abuse of Haitians, and Haitian children by UN Troops. These reports go back to 2006, even before the earthquake. And these sorts of things aren’t confined to just Haiti. The UN isn’t viewed favorably for a number of other reasons, not the least of which is a penchant to want to take control, and attitude by some UN workers that the locals are too stupid to handle their own affairs without UN direction. I can’t say that is universal – but it doesn’t take a lot of bad apples to spoil the box.
Insofar as the accusation that UN troops have shot Haitians in the recent violence, and the cholera outbreak – that may or may not be true. The corrupt Haitian entity which has brought the country the worst kidnapping, torture, and murder since Papa Doc – isn’t beyond killing a few, or a few tens of thousands of their own people to stop the election and stay in power. The November 28 vote will choose a successor to President Rene Preval, who cannot be re-elected after serving two terms, a 99-member parliament and 11 members of the 30-seat Senate.
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