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| Haiti: Top UN official condemns lynching increase |
| 2007-07-28 |
| The top UN official in Haiti on Friday denounced a sharp increase in lynchings and other mob attacks, including the killing of two innocent men as they traveled to a wedding. At least six people were killed by mobs in a single week in different attacks this month, according to the UN mission's human rights section. At least 105 people have been reportedly lynched in Haiti since 2005. "There has been a very large number of lynchings in the past months and weeks. We do hope this will not become a trend," Edmond Mulet, the special UN envoy to Haiti, told The Associated Press in an interview. He blamed the rise in part on a lack of confidence in Haiti's notoriously corrupt judicial system, which keeps hundreds of people imprisoned without trial while others who can afford a bribe walk free. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 My problem with what the UN guy is saying is that I've doubt that there is an accurate differentiation of morder sub-catagories like lynching in Haiti. If Edmond was asked to provide a graph so that we could see the trend line on lynchings in Haiti, we would find that his information is anecdotal - and reeks heavily of the a$$ from which he just removed it. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-07-28 21:18 |
| #2 "There has been a very large number of lynchings in the past months and weeks. We do hope this will not become a trend," Edmond Mulet, the special UN envoy to Haiti, told The Associated Press in an interview. So I guess according to UN guidelines there's a specific number that they have to meet before the UN considers lynching a "trend"? Is it kinda like that Darfur "Genocide/Not Genocide" number? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-28 10:01 |
| #1 He blamed |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-28 08:41 |