Postcard from Haiti

The BBC's feature on Rape and Abuse in Haiti

Excerpt:

There are about 9000 peacekeepers in the UN mission to Haiti, most of them soldiers who come from 19 different nations. Most of them have come to help. They work hard in dangerous conditions to bring security and aid to the desperate people.

But there are some peacekeepers who are willing to use their advantages to exploit some of the most vulnerable people in this troubled society.

Hail the conquering Hero! To the victor goes the spoils!

The United Nations is in Haiti to mitigate the unrest stemming from Capitalism's overthrow of democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide in favour of a cabal of wealthy Boca Raton retirees, led by one Gerard Latortue. Our "peacekeepers" from Canada played good little brother to the United States in its quest to preserve sweatshop labour in Haiti, and it seems the United Nations, supposed purveyors of international justice, have decided to join the party.

When there is public outcry over the usurpation of women's bodies by men, the global police are reaping the rewards of the advantages of having a uniform and a gun. If justice truly mattered to the United Nations, it would be giving the invaders a swift kick in the ass out of that country, but is instead raping and pillaging with them.

This is what it means to be the law around here. I don't need your law because I refuse to play your game of fear and loathing. Your law has failed to teach me a thing about doing the right thing. I learn from seeing, hearing and reading from those who feel the brunt of the law's consequences. I may not have seen much during my short time on this planet, but I have seen plenty to know the savagery fostered by "the law".