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Friday, October 22, 2010

Haiti Cholera Outbreak and Tomas Status by Stanley Lucas updated November 19 @ 3:37 p.m.(La version Francaise est a la fin)



YOUNG HAITIAN WOMEN RAPED BY SOLDIERS OF UN MISSION



Western Hemisphere and Caribbean : U.S. Government Strategy for Addressing the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti


Swedish diplomat says Haiti cholera strain came from Nepal: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6945229.cms?prtpage=1



HAITIANS ARE UPSET BECAUSE THE UN LIED ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK




CDC AND THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC:  http://www.cdc.gov/haiticholera/

Frequently Asked Questions About the Haiti Cholera Outbreak:  http://www.cdc.gov/haiticholera/cholera_qa.htm


View Overall Haiti Cholera Epidemic Map in a larger map 

HAITI AFTER TOMAS US NAVY Aerial Damage Assessments : http://www.navy.mil/list_all.asp?id=57033








The head of Nepal's mission in Haiti, Lt. Col. Krishna, second from left, and Prakash Neupane, deputy chief of the MINUSTAH engineering section, left, walks by pipes coming from latrines that lead to septic tanks that crosses a canal that leads to the Artibonite River at Nepal's U.N. base in Mirebalais, Haiti, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. A cholera outbreak that has killed more than 300 people in Haiti matches strains commonly found in South Asia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, intensifying the scrutiny of a U.N. base that is home to recently arrived Nepalese peacekeepers, built on a tributary to the Artibonite River. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
The head of Nepal's mission in Haiti, Lt. Col. Krishna, second from left, and Prakash Neupane, deputy chief of the MINUSTAH engineering section, left, walks by pipes coming from latrines that lead to septic tanks that crosses a canal that leads to the Artibonite River at Nepal's U.N. base in Mirebalais, Haiti, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. A cholera outbreak that has killed more than 300 people in Haiti matches strains commonly found in South Asia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, intensifying the scrutiny of a U.N. base that is home to recently arrived Nepalese peacekeepers, built on a tributary to the Artibonite River. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (Ramon Espinosa - AP)


Haiti's Cholera Strain originated From South Asia: http://www.npr.org/assets/blogs/health/images/2010/11/haiticholerastrain.pdf


Congresswoman Waters Urges Immediate Action to Stop Cholera Epidemic in Haiti: http://waters.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=213418



USGS: Haiti quake risk may still be high: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2627.



Haiti: Photo and Video Evidence Link UN Mission to Cholera Epidemic by Stanley Lucas


A tanker truck deposits excrements from the Nepali UN base in an area 
400 meters away from the base in Mirebalais, Haiti
















New photo and video evidence show a sewage truck from the Napalese base of the MINUSTAH mission dumping sewage into the Artibonite River in Mirebalais (see photo).  The sewage has traveled 400m from the Nepalese base and has contaminated the Artibonite river -- a major source of clean water for the Central Plateau and the Artibonite areas.  Aljazeera, the Middle East news outlet, also discovered that the toilets in the Nepalese base are also connected to the river.  See the video below

More and more independent research points to the Nepalese contingent at MINUSTAH as being the source of the Cholera bacteria outbreak in Haiti. 

One has to ask where is the Haitian government in this mess?  Why are they silent?

















What is the origin of the cholera bacteria that is spreading throughout Haiti? by Stanley Lucas

The four top theories right now are:

1. Unidentified liquids from the hydro electric plant in the Central Plateau unintentionally contaminated the Artibonite River (see report of Agence Haitienne de Presse (AHP)).
2.  A foreign worker who came to help after the earthquake and unintentionally contaminated some people.
3.  The bacteria was intentionally dropped in-country
4. Nepaleese soldiers within the United Nations mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) spread the cholera bacteria

I don't know which theory is the truth -- no one does. It is the responsibility of the Haitian Ministries of Health and Justice of Haiti to investigate and determine what happened














    HAITI: LES NEPALAIS DE LA MINUSTAH SEMBLENT ETRE A L'ORIGINE DE LA PROPAGATION DE L'EPIDEMIE DU CHOLERA PAR STANLEY LUCAS

    A tanker truck deposits excrements from the Nepali UN base in an area 
    400 meters away from the base in Mirebalais, Haiti




    Un camion qui collecte les dechets de la base Nepalaise a l'habitude de les deverser dans une riviere proche de Mirebalais connectee au Fleuve Artibonite (voir photo). Ces dechets auraient contamines le fleuve Artibonite. La chaine de television Aljazeera aurait aussi decouvert que les toilettes de la base Nepalaise sont aussi connectes a une riviere. Voir video plus bas.

    De plus en plus les recherches independantes semblent pointer du doigt les Nepalais de la MINUSTAH comme presumes responsables de la propagation de la bacterie Cholera en Haiti.

    La question qui se pose ou est l'enquete du gouvernement Haitien? Pourquoi ce silence?


    Quelle est l'origine du cholera qui est en train de se repandre en Haiti? par Stanley Lucas

    Les quatre theories sont:

    1. Un liquide non identifie de l'usine hydro-électrique Peligre dans le Plateau Central a involontairement contaminé du fleuve Artibonite (source Agence Haitienne de Prese)
    2. Un travailleur étranger qui est venu apporter de l'aide après le tremblement de terre a involontairement contaminé des Haitiens.
    3. La bactérie a été volontairement abandonné dans le pays
    4.  Des soldats Nepalais contamines qui ont rejoint la mission des Nations Unies en Haïti (MINUSTAH) ont involontairement propagé la bactérie du choléra.

    Je ne sais pas quelle hypothèse est la vérité - personne ne le sait. Il est de la responsabilité des Ministères Haïtiens de la Santé et la Justice et du Laboratoire National d'Haïti d'enquêter et de déterminer ce qui s'est passé. Voici les pays qui ont la cholera avec leurs taux: http://www.who.int/wer/2010/wer8531.pdf Vous constaterez qu'Haiti ne fait pas partie de cette liste.

    Cholera: Les dernieres nouvelles par Stanley Lucas
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    Friday, October 15, 2010

    $1.15 billion US Aid Package for Haiti Goes to the Clinton Global Initiative by Stanley Lucas

    For the third time this week, Fox News Anchor Bill O’Reilly highlighted the “Haiti Aid Scandal”.  First, I think it would be helpful to outline the various pots of money that the US Government has allocated to Haiti so that we can all be clear about what is being discussed:

     

             1.     In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the US Government allocated approximately $1 billion in aid.  Of that, only a couple hundred million actually got to the Haitian people for emergency assistance (medical, food, water, etc).  The rest was to fund the cost of sending the 82nd Airborne and military down to Haiti to stabilize the country – as the UN mission was very badly hit by the earthquake.

     

    2. Another $1.5 billion was allocated by the Congress for recovery (removing rubble) and rebuilding (permanent shelter).  Nine months later, more than 1.5 million people are still living in the streets.  That money was appropriated by Congress months ago and is only going to be released by the State Department in the coming weeks.  The State Department took months to submit their plan for how to combat waste and fraud with the allocated funds.

     

    3. There is a third pot of money in the amount of $500 million for infrastructure projects that is currently being held in the Senate by Senator Tom Coburn (R) because it is “unfunded” meaning they have not offset the budget expense by an equal budget cut.

     








     The stunning news tonight is that the Clinton Global Initiative will receive all $1.15 billion of the $1.5 billion to deploy in Haiti as they see fit.  For the Haitian Diaspora in the US and Haitians in-country it is somewhat surprising that the Secretary of State would put the money exclusively in her husband’s hands.  This is disappointing because it is not what President Barack Obama promised Haitians.  He committed to developing a partnership with Haiti – meaning that US aid would go to directly to Haitian institutions to strengthen their capacity not third party. 

     

     There are several potential implications for this money going exclusively to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).  First, there are potentially other organizations that would be deserving of some of these funds but now everyone will have to prove themselves worthy to Mr. Clinton.  Second, this means big dollars for Clinton’s NGO.  The standard overhead or administrative fee used by NGOs is 22%, which means Bill Clinton’s NGO potentially just secured $253 million in overhead expenses, and has potentially fully funded his Initiative for years to come.  CGI will then presumably make grants to other organizations, which will also require an overhead operating budget.  This multiplier effect on overhead could result in more money than necessary going to operational budgets for international NGOs.  This is potentially a lot of money going into the US system and not actually reaching the victims. Third, Clinton does not have a stellar track record of helping Haiti.  On March 31, 1995, President Bill Clinton promised the people of Haiti 1,000 km in new roads, 1 million trees and job creation (see: http://ftp.resource.org/gpo.gov/papers/1995/1995_vol1_437.pdf ).  The people of Haiti are still waiting for him to fulfill that 15-year-old promise.  This has led to much skepticism about President Clinton’s high profile position in Haiti, which was brought to light after his appointment as UN Special Envoy last year (see: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2009/07/former-president-clinton-takes-his.html ).

     











    A skeptical young Haitian listening to President Clinton last week

    But most importantly, the question remains: Why doesn’t the US use the money to directly fund Haitian institutions (government, civil society, and Diaspora) and place technical advisors within those organizations to monitor the funds and program implementation?  Haitians have serious doubts that the Clinton Global Initiative will use the money to strengthen Haitians and Haitian civil society.  And, they believe that part of the reason that aid has been so ineffective after all these years is because money has not been used to strengthen capacity. See: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.php?id=18364

     

    One of the themes that emerged after the earthquake was the complete inability of the Haitian Government to respond to the earthquake and the disarray that the country is in despite $11 billion in aid money that has been poured into the country over the past 25 years.  What happened was that most donors channeled their aid through international NGOs and bypassed the Haitian Government, civil society, Haitian Diaspora and other Haitian institutions.  To be sure, the Haitian Government is rife with corruption, but there are ways to build capacity and fight corruption.  What happened was that many international NGOs built capacity in-house instead of building Haitian capacity.  Furthermore, there was a lack of coordination among aid agencies resulting in redundancy or one-off programs that did little to benefit Haiti in the long term.  If the United States wants to help Haitians and have a real impact with this money, they should change the framework and prioritize investing in bringing skills and capacity to the Haitian people rather merely financing NGOs.

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