[news] Rights and Democracy: A Government-Owned "Human Rights" Group

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Kevin Skerrett - Canada Haiti Action Network

There are times when the things that people say — or publish — can get people killed...On December 14, 2006, **Rights and Democracy** (R&D) — Canada’s best-funded "human rights organization" — may well have done exactly that when it published a news release about a crime spree in Haiti. Following a series of well-publicized kidnappings in Port-au-Prince, R&D published a statement ridiculing the recently elected Haitian government’s "policy of dialogue with violent gangs," and its supposed preference for "dialogue at the expense of justice"...The content of R&D’s text — blaming all of the kidnappings and other crimes on "armed gangs" from the capital’s poorest neighbourhoods — matched the ugly tone of Haiti’s right-wing elite-owned media.  


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