So the US atrocities and rapes in Iraq aren't a crime against humanity?


PS. You ignore the successes of UNICEF around the world.

I published the following statement in response to murderous UN actions in Haiti:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Liberation News denounces the slaughter that has been carried out in Haiti by the UN. We continue our calls since the beginning of the U.S. invasion and coup against Aristide to call for the withdrawal of all U.S. and U.N. troops.

We endorse the following actions sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee and its demands, minus their call to reinstall Aristide. We instead call for the self-determination of the Haitian people, which may or may not include the reinstatement of Aristide after the fall of the rightwing UN/death-squad government.

* Stop the UN "Peace-Keeping" Massacres in Haiti!
* End the UN Occupation of Haiti!
* Uphold the Right of the Haitian People to Self-Determination, Free From All Foreign Intervention!

The horrific role the UN has played in Haiti is a good negative lesson in why Liberation News was so adamant in our opposition to the Peace and Freedom Party's presidential candidate's call for the U.S. out and the U.N. in to Iraq and why this became one of a couple split issues from that party when the state chair of the party simultaneously tried to cover-up and defend that position.

Liberation News remains committed to the need for a revolutionary party in the United States that, unlike the Peace and Freedom Party, is clear on issues of war and peace in the battle against imperialism. We also stand for building a party that does not on principle ever endorse any candidate of the pro-war, pro-police state Democrat Party.

Instead we call for the Liberation of humanity and a ravaged planet from the scourge of capitalism and its wars. We reject both the Democrat and Republican Parties as capitalist parties of war, racism, union busting, sexism, homophobia, environmental degradation and corporate exploitation.

We instead seek to build revolutionary socialism as the working class alternative. In contrast to the Democratic Party, including its most left wing, we stand in firm opposition to all US/UN wars. We understand that the US wages wars for one reason: empire and arms sales that equal corporate profit. The myth of UN humanitarianism must be countered by the truth that the UN is used around the world to the service of imperialism.

The working class interests that Liberation News represents are those that do not want our sons and daughters to be sacrificed on the alter of war for corporate profit and who want our tax dollars to be spent on social programs at home. In addition we want the people of the world to live in freedom from the terror and exploitation of U.S. and European imperialism. We call for socialist revolution in America to end the dictatorial power of the wealthy, for a redistribution of the wealth, and for a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs as the true road to ending imperialism and war.

Sincerely,
Steven Argue
for Liberation News

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[Simultaneous protests in other cities: Check w/your local activists for details or go to www.haitiaction.net]

* EMERGENCY PROTEST!
* STOP U.N. "PEACEKEEPER" MASSACRES IN HAITI!

On the morning of July 6, 2005, more than 350 heavily armed United Nations "peacekeeping" forces killed at least 23 unarmed people in the densely populated Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil. Some estimates indicate that 50 or more may have died. The UN Force Commander, Brazilian Lt. General Augusto Heleno, claims there was a "firefight," yet there were no UN deaths or injuries.

THIS WAS A MASSACRE. Photographic evidence and eyewitness testimony confirm that the U.N. murdered unarmed civilians, including a 4-year old child, shot through the head.

Cite Soleil has been the focus of attacks by both UN forces and the Haitian police because it remains a powerful base of support for the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas movement. The U.N. operation targeted and killed Emmanuel "Dred" Wilme, a well-known community leader in Cite Soleil, who had been in the forefront of the neighborhood's resistance to the illegal coup regime. The attack came just a few days after U.S. Ambassador to Haiti James Foley labeled Haitian grassroots activists as "terrorists" and "gang members", sending a clear signal that it was now open season on civilians.

Since a U.S.-orchestrated coup overthrew the democratic government in February 2004, a United Nations force of 7500 troops has occupied Haiti. The U.N. has supported the coup regime, which has killed and imprisoned thousands of innocent people. As the U.N. mouths its concerns for human rights around the world, it attacks the poorest
communities in Haiti and backs up the violent repression carried out by the Haitian police. Brazil continues to do the bidding of the United States by heading-up this brutal U.N. military operation in Haiti.

On July 21, there will be coordinated protests in many U.S. and Canadian cities to condemn the U.N. massacre in Cite Soleil. Please join us!

END THE U.S./U.N. OCCUPATION OF HAITI!
RESTORE DEMOCRACY AND PRESIDENT ARISTIDE!

Thursday, July 21st

Gather: 4 P.M. - Powell and Market, San Francisco
March to Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery: 4:30 P.M.
Followed by Picket at the Brazilian Consulate.

Sponsored by the HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
For more information:
www.haitiaction.net haitiaction@yahoo.com 510.483.7481

"It claims UN and Nato troops in the region are using the trafficked women and girls for sex and some have been involved in trafficking itself."

Ofcourse they should be prosecuted and punished..

But why didn't you call your threat UN + NATO = crimes against humanity??

I would say dump that useless warmachine NATO first, it threatens world peace..

The United Nations did some very good things too..

Especially the work on human rights, international law and climate change has been and still is very important for the world..

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Vienna Climate Change Talks 2007
unfccc.int/2860.php

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