I recently had a conversation about Haiti and my friend said that all seemed to be going well with the country and its reconstruction. Found this at the ICG about the situation. Any thoughts?


Violent and organised crime threatens to overwhelm Haiti. The justice system is weak and dysfunctional, no match for the rising wave of kidnappings, drug and human trafficking, assaults and rapes. If the efforts of the last three years to establish the rule of law and a stable democracy are to bear fruit urgent action is needed. Above all the Haitian government must demonstrate genuine political will to master the problem. But the international community also has a major support role. The immediate need is to establish, staff and equip two special courts, one a domestic criminal chamber to handle major crimes, the other a hybrid Haitian/international tribunal to deal with cases of transnational, organised crime that the country can not tackle on its own.


International Crisis Group - Haiti: Justice Reform and the Security Crisis

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Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, I don't think a couple of courts is really going to help a lot.

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Recently, and I cannot remember where I was having the debate, a poster used the relative calm in Haiti as to how intervention was a good thing, basically, I read this and thought I would show that it is not as calm as some believe.

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More violence in the capital.

The head of the UN mission to Haiti has publicly acknowledged international peacekeepers carrying out anti-kidnapping raids into the poorest parts of the city have to do more to avoid civilian casualties. His comments come after a series of raids in the capital, Port-au-Prince, in which witnesses said a number of innocent bystanders were either killed or wounded by peacekeepers.

"We have to improve, we have to be all the time learning from this," said Ambassador Edmond Mulet, head of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Minustah). "We have learned lessons every time we have [had] these actions."


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And that silly dictator is living here in South Africa on ur tax payers expense! IT is truly getting on my nerves. And this is the funniest bit - he got a job at a university here (not our best by a long shot, so do not judge us on it) teaching Political science!!!

AH

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Aristide wasn't a dictator so much as an elected executive who exceeded his power.

In any case, Haiti is doing better now than it has, well, ever. The fact that Haiti is a dangerous place to live still does not diminish that.

Of course, when the UN leaves, things will probably go to hell again, but what can you do? If people won't be civilized to each other, shit happens. My wife is Haitian and her family's view is that Haiti is messed up mainly because of Haitians.

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