JISB Interview: Cholera, Accountability, and the UN in Haiti

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Notes

1 These governments have contributed so far or have approved the reallocation of the MINUSTAH unencumbered balance towards the UN Haiti Cholera Response: the Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, France, Grenada, Guyana, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan (outside the trust fund), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Paraguay, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Senegal, the Slovak Republic, Sri Lanka, Sudan, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela (see Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office 2016–2019).

2 Many have argued that the MINUSTAH mandate is inappropriate under Chapter VII of the UN Charter or that MINUSTAH is exceptional (see Faubert 2006, 4, 8, 34; Gaye et al. 2011, 1–6; Haitian-Truth.org 2013).

3 Colonel Carl Dorelien, a high command member convicted in the Raboteau trial, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and ordered deported by an immigration judge on 21 June 2001.

4 Foreign aid donors suspended at least US$500 million in aid to Haiti (Farmer, Smith Fawzi, and Nevil 2003, 420–423; Stockman and Milligan 2004).

5 “Chamblain, convicted in absentia without a jury for his role in the Raboteau massacre in 1994, was released on August 2. His lawyer argued that the Supreme Court’s (Cour de Cassation) May 3 ruling to annul the Raboteau convictions which were tried by jury applied to Chamblain’s trial, even though his client did not appeal the verdict, nor was he tried by jury. On this basis, the Gonaives first level court ordered Chamblain’s release on May 9” (Permanent Council 2005, 10).

6 Quotes include: ‘But only about 21% of the electorate got to the polls’ and ‘citizens also question the usefulness of voting, doubting that it will do anything to improve their lives, region, or country’.