..Uruguay to apologize over alleged rape by UN peacekeepers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

..Uruguay to apologize over alleged rape by UN peacekeepers
By Malena Castaldi | Reuters – 1 hour 38 minutes ago..

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay will apologize to Haiti and compensate an 18-year-old Haitian man allegedly raped by Uruguayan U.N. troops in the poor Caribbean state, the Uruguayan defense minister said on Tuesday.

Public outrage in the earthquake-ravaged nation has simmered over a video shot by a cellphone camera and circulating on the Internet that shows laughing Uruguayan marines pinning the young Haitian face down on a mattress and apparently assaulting him sexually.

"Our biggest concern is to apologize to Haiti's government as soon as possible and to compensate the victim," Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro told reporters after meeting with lawmakers on Tuesday.

"We want to be thorough with the investigations and apply the harshest of sanctions," Fernandez Huidobro said.

Read more: http://in.news.yahoo.com/uruguay-apologize-over-alleged-rape-un-peacekeepers-012916467.html

[rabs]

1. Peacekeepers brought death to 6,000 Haitians

The Reuters story says:
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U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti have faced public anger before, especially over allegations that Nepalese U.N. troops brought a deadly cholera epidemic to the country after their camp latrines contaminated a local river. This triggered riots last year against the 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping contingent.
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But through an oversight, incompetence or deliberately, Reuters omits that U.N. Peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera outbreak and as of the end of July of this year, nearly 6,000 Haitians have died and 420,000 more have been treated for the disease.

An inconvenient fact that the United Nations and the MSM tend to ignore.
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Haiti cholera death toll reaches 5,968
Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:8AM

The Haitian Health Ministry has announced that the number of people who have died of cholera in the country has reached 5,968 by the end of last month.

The ministry also said on Sunday that 10 people succumb to the deadly disease every day, dpa reported.

Many health workers, however, believe the total death toll is higher, since this number does not account for those who die unreported and unknown in isolated areas of the country.

Since the cholera epidemic broke out in October, more than 420,000 people have been infected and another 600 cases are registered daily.

The disease is spread through contaminated water because the earthquake-battered Caribbean country does not have a sanitary water system in effect.

Most Haitians are still homeless due to an earthquake that struck the capital Port-au-Prince in January 2010.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194025.html

[Judi Lynn]

5. Beyond tragic. They have been cursed for their courage in overthrowing brutal "masters." n/t

[EFerrari]

2. Occupations are always brutalizing.

They need to get the hell out of Haiti.

[Judi Lynn]

4. It never made a bit of sense to install them there, anyway. It makes the UN look corrupt. n/t

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R n/t