First, do no Harm: The UN in Haiti  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8782 (Apr. 2012), page 41-42.
Topik: Cholera; Peacekeeping Forces; Accountability; Many-countries; Military Occupations

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Haitians have good reason to be suspicious of foreigners claiming to act in their interests. In the 19th century France, the former imperial power, kindly offered to have Parisian banks finance the reparations it demanded in exchange for recognizing the country's independence. The resulting debt drained Haiti's treasury for decades. A century later the United States generously built up the country's infrastructure--using virtual slave labor during a brutal military occupation. Today's foreign do-guiders in Haiti are the 9,000 members of Minustah, the UN's peacekeeping force. They are surely better-meaning than the interlopers of the past. But the Haitian government has little more influence over them than it did over America's marines. Even as Haitians have been outraged by Minustah's wrongdoing, they have become increasingly doubtful of the benefits it provides. The UN originally deployed the force in 2004 to stabilize the country during the civil unrest that followed the ejection of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist former priest, from the presidency. There has been no serious armed conflict in Haiti since 2006--which can be taken as evidence either of Minustah's effectiveness or of its irrelevance. Even if the troops do contribute to security, critics of the force note that a single year of its $800m budget might be enough to revamp the country's decrepit water infrastructure. That might well have prevented cholera from spreading in the first place.

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