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2007-07-28 Caribbean-Latin America

Haiti: Top UN official condemns lynching increase

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 He blamed ~~hooded riders~~ the rise in part on a lack of confidence in Haiti's notoriously corrupt judicial system,

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-28 08:41|| 2007-07-28 08:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-07-28 10:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-07-28 21:18|| Front Page Top

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