GuardianUK:Video, edited by ABC News, showing the alleged sexual assault of a young man in Haiti by Minustah (UN) peacekeeping soldiers The video is profoundly disturbing. It shows four men, identified as Uruguayan troops from the UN mission in Haiti (Minustah), seemingly in the act of raping an 18-year-old Haitian youth. Two have the...
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By Associated Press3:17 p.m. EDT, May 10, 2012 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six Uruguayan peacekeepers for the U.N. of sexually abusing him in the poor Caribbean country on Thursday arrived at court to testify to the judge investigating the case. The young man entered the courtroom in...
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A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six Uruguayan soldiers of raping him while serving with the UN’s peacekeeping mission to the country will testify on Thursday to a judge who is investigating the case. Uruguayan judge Alejandro Guido and supreme court spokesman Raul Oxandabarat told The Associated Press news agency that the alleged victim,...
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six Uruguayan peacekeepers for the U.N. of sexually abusing him in the poor Caribbean country on Thursday arrived at court to testify to the judge investigating the case. The young man entered the courtroom in the afternoon. Uruguayan Judge Alejandro Guido and Supreme Court...
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Nicolas Sarkozy could face questioning in a raft of party financing and corruption cases when he leaves the Elysée next week and loses his presidential immunity. Nicolas Sarkozy could soon be called for questioning, either as a witness or potentially as a suspect, in several corruption cases when he loses presidential immunity a month...
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PORT AU PRINCE, May 10 (BERNAMA-NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Haitian Premier Laurence Lamothe has ruled out an immediate pullout of the UN peacekeeping troops known as MINUSTAH, until local forces are ready to take over. “Once we increase our security forces, the number of MINUSTAH troops will gradually fall,” he said. The Haitian Army, made...
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The reconstruction effort in Haiti is faithfully following trickledown economic policies, which will exacerbate income inequality in the country. May 9, 2012 | An earthquake rocked Haiti in January 2010, causing widespread devastation. Photo Credit: Marco Dormino/ United Nations The recent news out of Haiti is that Port au Prince is currently undergoing a...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers have begun cracking down on bands of armed men lobbying for the country to restore its armed forces, a U.N. spokesman said Monday. Lt. Cmdr. Jim Hoeft said U.N. troops and national police officers set up checkpoints Sunday in Haiti’s capital and others parts of the country and...
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Haiti 2011 © Frederik Matte/MSF Patients affected by cholera receive treatment at an MSF cholera treatment center in Port-au-Prince. PORT-AU-PRINCE, MAY 9, 2012—Cholera cases are on the rise in Haiti following the onset of the rainy season, and the country is not adequately prepared to combat the deadly disease, the international medical humanitarian organization...
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mardi 30 août 2011 RETRO-INFO: MARIO DUPUY, ARISTIDE, AMIOT METAYER Haïti : le scandale de trop ? P-au-P., 25 sept. 03 — Voici le transcrit d’un témoignage de Jules André, membre de « l’armée cannibale », diffusé le 24 septembre en cours par la station privée Radio Caraibes à Port-au-Prince, deux jours après...
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